"It's about equipment replacement -- not about entering an incessant arms race," said Prime Minister Javier Velasquez in a radio announcement.
The country said it was planning on buying Super Tucano planes from Brazil’s Embraer, to be employed to combat cocaine trafficking in remote parts of the Andes and Amazon jungle. I did not say how much it would spend on the new equipment, but added that any U.S> equipment that Chile buys would cost much less than a recent $650 million estimate provided by the Pentagon.
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