To be fair it is the USA that wants that ridiculous military grade border security, so they are footing the bill. It's a roundabout way of paying more for border security (lol I bet hungry peasant farmers are a real threat to the American Empire) without directly establishing military bases in Mexico itself.
Think of the EU bribing Turkey to detain Syrian refugees when Turkey itself has no interest in doing so.
and? A wall is maybe $600 million dollars between California and Texas. Each V-280 has a unit cost around $50 million dollars, 14 of them is equal in cost to Trump's wall.
Mexico's military has always had the ability to supercede local police, but they've been doing it more recently because it's not like Trump is going to whine about it. Obama didn't either but Obama might have not sold them the guns to do it if he knew innocent protesters would die from them.
AMLO is also getting more and more radical: we red tide now.
Lázarp Cárdenas part 2: nationalising boogaloo
AMLO will make Cársenas look like a market liberal.
can't wait tbh
Also I love how AMLO has got more radical: 9th march "no nationalisation of energy", 18th of march "actually year we are going to rwnationalise energy". At this rate he will make Castroism his ideology by christmas.
At this rate he might just do it. He has been posturing to appeal to polite bourgeois society but if Mexico is gonna get the finger by the US anyway, I feel he's gonna be able to rally mass support and implement more radical proposals.
Porky also seems to be v scared: the PRI hired a right winger from Venezuela.
Trump wants $25 BILLION. He also wants Mexico to display their subservience to him by publicly supporting the project.
It's understandable that Mexico/USA relations have turned to shit during his administration.