Battle for the Andes

... major agreement on the purchase of two MA60 passenger jets and six Z-9 H425 helicopters. The $103-million agreement was financed by a $300-million line of credit extended by the Chinese side to Bolivia in 2012. Military-technical cooperation between Russia and Bolivia is extremely limited. Right now, the issue being negotiated concerns the purchase of Russian helicopters by the Bolivian side. In spring 2014, Minister of Defence Ruben Saavedra reported that his agency was seeking to purchase multipurpose Mi-17 ...