Mexican authorities said Sunday they have destroyed 14 homemade armoured cars of the kind used by drug cartels to fight land battles.
The vehicles are usually adapted from commercial trucks, with steel plate armour welded on. Known in Mexico as “monstruos,” or “Monsters,” some of the vehicles junked were truly monstrous.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Video distributed by the federal attorney general’s office showed a crane with a claw ripping one of the vehicles apart in Tamaulipas state. The state, which borders Texas, is home to at least two warring drug cartels, the Northeast and Gulf cartels. Prosecutors did not say which gang the vehicles belonged to or when they were seized.
While such vehicles appear intimidating, they have proved vulnerable in practice. Because the steel armor adds so much weight, they tend to be slow, unwieldy and often break down. Easy to spot, they also appear to be vulnerable to incendiary devices or munitions. Many are found burned. Their use illustrates the lengths Mexican cartels have gone to fight rivals and authorities. The cartels’ weapons also include improvised explosive devices and bomb-dropping drones.
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