The Armored Monstruo Trucks Of The CJNG, The CDG, & Los Zetas
By HEARST 9/12/2021 05:07:00 PM
The following is a direct translation of an article written by journalist Patricia Dávila for Proceso Magazine published on September 10, 2021 under the title "Armor Pirate for the Narco"
Every year organized crime in Mexico modernizes and resorts to new tactics, improves its military equipment, diversifies. Until now, the government has been unable to contain its access to heavy weaponry and procedures such as armoring its vehicles with the most resistant steel, sometimes comparable to that used by the Army. However, representatives of this branch of the industry warn that not all companies offering armoring services comply with the legal requirement to register and report their clients' information...
While observing through the cracks of a farm that turned out to be a warehouse, Army troops detected several vehicles. They waited for agents of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) to arrive with a search warrant to enter. There they found, among others, a Rino-type pickup truck, property of the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation (CJNG), armored "artisanally" with plates made to withstand 50 caliber Barrett impacts.
The discovery occurred on the morning of July 30 at kilometer 63.350 of the Guadalajara-Colima highway in Tuxpan, Jalisco, and would have gone unnoticed had it not been for the inscriptions "SSAB" and "Ramor 550" on the plates covering the "monster," indicating that one of the most effective steels was used.
The first known monsters were seized in Tamaulipas, in 2010, as a result of the dispute between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. The latter devised these armored cars to protect their drug shipments through the vast semi-desert plains, with hundreds of breachs and country roads. In them, they drive through the rancherías terrorizing the population and use them to confront rival gangs or state forces.
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