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When denouncing extortion gets you killed: Mexican business leaders in the crosshairs of organized crime

Julio César Almanza Armas was murdered hours after criticizing the insecurity faced by businesses in Tamaulipas. Weeks earlier, Minerva Pérez Castro was killed for the same reason in Baja California

Business leaders in Mexico are in the crosshairs of organized crime, which has diversified its business activities and now affects all links in the production chain: from agricultural activity to the distribution and sale of products. And those who speak out pay for it with their lives.

Julio César Almanza Armas, the president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Mexican states of Tamaulipas and Matamoros, was killed on Tuesday afternoon after a dozen bullets were fired at his car’s window. His last public words have drawn attention: “Businesspeople are hostages of criminal gangs and extortion has practically become a national sport,” he said on Telediario Radio in Tampico.

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j4k3 ,
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When bullet proof glass was not enough. That was no handgun round.

Eheran ,

What makes you think that glass was bullet proof? It seems regularly thin.

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Side glass is not laminated. Only bullet proof and windshields are laminated glass like this. When I painted cars for used car lots, I worked on several armored cars like this. They are only rated for small handgun rounds on the windows. It’s one reason you do not see military vehicles with similar large windows. Still, driving one of these feels like driving a tank. The doors feel like a small vault door in weight. You can tell that your driving a much heavier vehicle than it appears. The way the windshield is shaped a little odd is a small indicator that it is much thicker. The chrome trim insert around the window helps minimize the look of the thicker glass and gives away that the windows likely can not be rolled down.

Any typical automotive side window will shatter into pieces when broken.

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