Giancarlo
April 21st, 2002, 20:30
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20020421_187.html
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Carolina stared through her windshield into two gun barrels pointed at her face by a pair of masked men who ordered her out of her car in a dark and deserted intersection of Mexico's capital city.
Frozen with fear, the businesswoman couldn't bring herself to meet the eyes of the assailants, who opened fire on her car. When the bullets bounced off, however, they quickly ran off in search of easier prey.
Only months before, Carolina's husband, worried about a growing wave of kidnappings and robberies targeting drivers, insisted that she have her car armor-plated to give him peace of mind.
"First I thought I'd wasted my money, but now (I realize) I could be dead," Carolina said in a telephone interview after being contacted via Coparmex, a Mexican business group on the front lines of the country's campaign to fight kidnappings.
Honestly, I hope Fox does something about this... I think he has. Recently, 200 new police cars and police pay raises were introduced in some parts of Mexico. But the police force still has corruption problems.
My family car has bullet proof protection too... enough to withstand a brick and a shotgun.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Carolina stared through her windshield into two gun barrels pointed at her face by a pair of masked men who ordered her out of her car in a dark and deserted intersection of Mexico's capital city.
Frozen with fear, the businesswoman couldn't bring herself to meet the eyes of the assailants, who opened fire on her car. When the bullets bounced off, however, they quickly ran off in search of easier prey.
Only months before, Carolina's husband, worried about a growing wave of kidnappings and robberies targeting drivers, insisted that she have her car armor-plated to give him peace of mind.
"First I thought I'd wasted my money, but now (I realize) I could be dead," Carolina said in a telephone interview after being contacted via Coparmex, a Mexican business group on the front lines of the country's campaign to fight kidnappings.
Honestly, I hope Fox does something about this... I think he has. Recently, 200 new police cars and police pay raises were introduced in some parts of Mexico. But the police force still has corruption problems.
My family car has bullet proof protection too... enough to withstand a brick and a shotgun.