The crime of extortion increased in at least 19 municipalities in the eastern part of the State of Mexico, among which stand out Chimalhuacán, Nezahualcóyotl, La Paz, Chalco, Chicoloapan, Ixtapaluca y Chalco Valley, where criminal organizations see tortilla factories and dough mill owners as their main “clients.”
Sergio Jarquín, president of the National Union of Mills and of Tortilleriasregretted that due to this crime, at least this year, they have had to close about 20 establishments whose owners can no longer pay “rent to the criminal organizations”.
The owner of the La Campesina tortilla chain, Juan Manuel Hernández, declared that he has had to lower the curtain in several of his establishments located in Valle de Chalco and Chimalhuacán, where even criminal groups have pretended to be Tláhuac Cartelhe Jalisco New Generation o The Michacan Family.
These are fees that amount to up to 500 pesos per month within the markets, but outside the fee the fee increases, because there the rate reaches 5 thousand pesos and sometimes up to 7 thousand pesos, the merchant complains.
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Most of the groups that have been arrested for the complaints filed are only false cells of cartels, although they also charge extortion, they pointed out.
These criminal groups get together, agree and threaten and attack the life of the tenants when they don’t pay, said Juan Manuel Hernández.
Although the Mexican authorities, They recently said that this crime was going down, the reality is that this is not the case, he clarified.
They bring “their happy numbers,” but we are the ones who suffer every day. after day the extortion.
It can be said, he specified, that at least this year this crime increased in the eastern part of the State of Mexico and even throughout the entity, because the groups have multiplied, since they do not necessarily belong to a sign known of organized crime, but are simply extortionists.