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Extortion now afflicts travel agencies in Veracruz

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Bars, discotheques, pubs, businessmen, construction companies, transport enterprises, cattle ranchers and now even the travel agencies in Veracruz are victims of the “floor charge” or “fee” at the hands of organized crime.

Ideana Gómez Ortiz, president of the Mexican Association of Travel Agencies in Xalapa denounced that 50 percent of her union members have been victims of “extortion” by groups of organized crime, a situation that has worsened in the last 15 days.

Gómez was mum on the name of the criminal organization that has been extorting its members, only emphasizing that several of them have already lodged complaints with the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE).

When launching a call for help to the state government and to the FGE itself, he argued that the “fee collection” requested by criminal organizations ranges from 30,000 pesos to 100,000 pesos a month.

In some businesses, people have already shown up to make the payment. In other cases they have started to leave threats. “

Even, he said, dirty money, like brothels have been victims of these charges.

On April 25, a group of assassins broke into the business establishment of massage-bar “Seduction” in the busy Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood in Xalapa and shot the person in charge of the place. They put her on her knees and shot her in one of the rooms, before leaving the place, they threatened the sex workers that this situation would continue if they did not pay the fee.

In November 2018, an organized crime cell rampaged a massage house in the Rafael Lucio neighborhood on the outskirts of Xalapa. There a woman was injured after being shot. The attack was preceded by telephone extortion from organized crime.


Source: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2019/05/extortion-now-afflicts-travel-agencies.html



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