TIL that Mexico sent nearly 200 members of the military on a 20-day mission to support the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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Mexico and Hurricane Katrina | HistoricalMX

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The Ejército Mexicano (Mexican Army) rolled into Nuevo Laredo on September 8, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina slammed into southern Louisiana after making landfall in New Orleans. A line of forty-five military vehicles filled with up to 195 military personnel drove along IH-35 as they worked their way to San Antonio, Texas. [1] The convoys were headed straight to relief operations in San Antonio in response to Hurricane Katrina, marking the first time the Mexican Army was in San Antonio since the...