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Mexican drug barons create DIY tanks to win turf wars
Swivelling turrets and peep holes for snipers are common features as new trend grips drug cartels
In a bid to gain the upper hand in a rapidly escalating arms race, Mexican drugs gangs have turned to creating home-made tanks. Police discovered a number of the armoured vehicles in April and May and the Mexican media immediately nicknamed them 'los Monstruos' (the Monsters).
The DIY tanks look more like something out of Mad Max than modern day Mexico. The authorities revealed that the vehicles are often decked out with firing holes for snipers, swivelling turrets and mechanisms to dump oil and tyre-puncturing nails on the road.
The tanks are the latest in a long line of imaginative transport innovations from Mexico's drug cartels. In recent years, homemade submarines, designed to secretly ship up to eight tons of cocaine 25ft below the sea's surface, have been discovered. ·
