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Article: Mexico City criminals target the elite.(World)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 18, 1998
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MEXICO CITY - Every few weeks, American security consultant Richard Wright sequesters a dozen or more urban refugees in the Arizona desert, where they practice whipping a car into screeching movie-style J-turns until it becomes second nature.
Mr. Wright's clients - who include Mexican and foreign executives, wealthy families and their bodyguards - pay $600 to $1,000 a day for his course on how to sniff out a criminal threat and avoid becoming a kidnapping victim back in Mexico City.
"There is so much easy meat here," Mr. Wright, 41, said during an interview in the Mexico City headquarters of his rapidly growing company, Grupo Rig. "If I'm a ...