Mexico City.- Given the inaction of the authorities, the extortions of the organized crime they are unstoppable in the country and they affect businessmen and merchants as well as carriers, farmers and even street vendors. Vendors of a flea market CelayaGuanajuato, which has 350 jobs, have to pay criminals between 5,000 and 8,000 pesos a month to let them work.
“There is no way out, if you don’t pay you die”, said a trader who requested anonymity. Tenants of the Mercado de Abastos in that city denounced that criminals force them to deposit a thousand pesos a week.
In the Mexico state, carriers of different routes in Ecatepec, Coacalco, Naucalpan, Tecamac and Neza recognized that they pay criminal groups between 50 and 200 pesos per day per unit.
If you don’t pay, said a driver, they threaten to burn the units or kill the workers on the route.
In the neighborhood of Tepito, in Mexico City, street vendors pay a daily fee of 50 pesos per square meter. Avocado and lemon trees from the region of Hot Land of Michoacan They revealed that they ask for 500 to 5 thousand pesos, depending on the volume of their loads, for letting them market their products from Tepalcatepec, Aguililla, Buenavista and Apatzingán.
In the Sierra Gorda of Queretaro, criminal organizations ask builders for amounts ranging from 50,000 to 200,000 pesos to allow the development of works. Merchants of the Central de Abastos de oaxaca they pay 1,500 pesos a month for the sale of tomato, tomato and some vegetables, while carriers and merchants from Puebla are charged between 200 and 500 pesos each time they load and unload in the municipality of San Martin Texmelucan.
The Independent Cartel of Acapulco and Los Rusos require carriers of warrior andBetween 100 and 200 pesos a week, while businessmen and merchants in the port must pay between 1,000 and 3,000 pesos, depending on the line of business. Last week two taxis were set on fire in Acapulcoand in May at least 80 local Tianguis Campesino were incinerated, both cases related to the so-called “floor charge”.
Police sources revealed that in taxco Y Catalan Coyuca it is the Familia Michoacana that imposes prices on the sale of soft drinks, beer and meat, and that members of the Jalisco Cartel impose prices on tortilla shops and breweries in Zihuatanejo, which caused the provisional closure of 50 establishments of that business at the beginning of June. Luis Alberto, owner of a snack center in Temixco, Morelosaccused that he must pay 50 pesos to organized crime for every 300 pesos that a client leaves him in consumption of loggerheads or food.
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