Did you know that Mexico City is rapidly becoming the worlds largest city? Not just the Western Hemispheres or North Americas, but the WORLDs largest city.
I do not know if they are like Central America but I suspect they are the same, where every house has security grates on every window and a few a fairly artful while cheep, but others are quite sophisticated and any place with a yard and driveway has a gate at the least and often a fence in front. Larger places have some very nice ironwork. Mexico has been producing a lot of ironwork for export as well and many of the component manufacturers have their goods made South of the border. So in total, there is a LOT of ironwork being done it Mexico and Central America. So you would think they would be buying tools here. . . but they are not. They either make them there or import them from elsewhere.