Employees on the assembly line in Carbon’s factory, in Brazil.
Photographer: Victor Moriyama/BloombergBulletproof Cars See $660 Million Boom in Brazil After Robberies Stoke Fear
Sales are at a record as the middle class seeks protection against increasingly visible violent crime
The scene is harrowing. In the dark of night, a compact Jeep is caught in slow traffic on a residential street in Rio de Janeiro. Two men on a motorbike pull up next to the SUV; one hops off, lifts up a gun and points it at the driver.
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In Brazil, these types of videos are everywhere, a mainstay of news programs, neighborhood group chats and local Instagram accounts. They’re clipped from security cameras that capture the violent encounters when men ambush cars stuck in gridlock or stopped at lights and rob their occupants of cash, mobile phones and jewelry.