Would you buy a car once owned by a drug dealer or mobster, knowing that you were helping poor people? That’s the gamble the Mexican government made yesterday when it auctioned off more than 75 luxury cars seized from alleged drug bosses and other criminals. Host Marco Werman gets the story from Franc Contreras, a reporter in Mexico City.
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