Mexican Cartels Taking ‘War’ On Drugs VERY Seriously… With 100 New Homemade TANKS -- Daily Mail
Huge and imposing, these heavily-armoured converted trucks look like the warrior trucks out of action film Mad Max.
But the vehicles, cloaked in inch-thick steel plates, are actually the DIY project of Mexican drug cartels.
Gangs have transformed the pick-up trucks as part of their arsenal of weapons to battle with rivals for supremacy in the drug trade.
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More News On Mexico's Drug Cartel War
FACTBOX-Security developments in Mexico, May 30-June 5 -- Alertnet
Mexican army seizes drug gang's armored trucks -- Yahoo News/AP
Mexican cartels now using ‘tanks’ -- Washington Post
Drug gangs using homemade “narco-tanks’’ -- Miami Herald
Mexican Drug Lords Building D.I.Y. ‘Tanks’ -- The Danger Room
Mexican army destroys drug cartel 'narco-tanks' -- BBC
Mexico soldiers find narco 'tank' factory -- Yahoo News/AFP
Mexican drug gangs create armored 'narco tanks' dubbed 'Los Monstruous' - the Monsters -- New York Daily News
Mexican war on drugs reaches new low as drug gangs hang rival members from city-centre bridges -- The Daily Mail
In Sinaloa, cartel operators hide in plain sight -- Yahoo News/AP
Cop show spawns real drama in Mexico -- Kansas City/L.A. Times
Dying to cover the drug war -- Al Jazeera
Tijuana mayor ordered held for 2 more days -- Yahoo News/AP
Mexico weighs organized crime charges for ex-mayor -- Yahoo News/AP
Mexico peace tour: a cathartic turnout against drug violence in San Luis Potosí -- Christian Science Monitor
Mexicans begin anti-violence caravan to US border -- AFP
"Peace caravan" crossing Mexico to protest drug war -- Reuters
Poet leads hundreds in Mexico peace caravan -- Yahoo News/AP