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Tijuana : Mexico | about 1 month ago

Five of the latest victims were found Sunday in an abandoned van near a shopping centre in the eastern part of the city and the other five were found wrapped in blankets on a road elsewhere...

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In Mexico, shopping for the right thing to wear at the wrong end of a gun

Posted By: Olivier
In Mexico, shopping for the right thing to wear at the wrong end of a gun

Tucked on a leafy side street in the Polanco neighborhood is a shop unlike the others, one whose bustling business says much about the dire state of security in this country. At Miguel Caballero, named after its Colombian owner, all the garments are bulletproof.

There are bulletproof leather jackets and bulletproof polo shirts. Armored guayabera shirts hang next to protective windbreakers, parkas and even white ruffled tuxedo shirts. Every member of the sales staff has had to take a turn being shot while wearing one of the products, which range from a few hundred dollars to as much as $7,000, so they can attest to the efficacy of the secret fabric.

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