The convoy moves fast — half a dozen unmarked pickups and SUVs, plates ripped off, weaving and speeding through traffic. The vehicles cross into bus lanes and straddle road dividers, but the other drivers barely react as they pass, numb — it seems — to this kind of chaos. The convoy’s passengers suit up, adding tactical vests over their clothes, ski masks over their heads. If not for POLICIA emblazoned across their body armor, anyone would think this was a crew of masked bandits, not the undercover law enforcement officers they are. Families are grilling outside, and children splash in pools set up in the tightly packed streets as the largely Catholic population celebrates the end of Carnival and prepares for the start of Lent. Officers pile out of the vehicles and rush into multiple homes at once. Police tell us they have four targets — suspects linked to the…
