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What is happening in Peru? Current situation
469 sats \ 15 comments \ @bief57 12 Oct 2024 Politics_And_Law
The phenomenon of extortion has reached critical levels. In addition to the unions of transporters, warehouse workers and construction workers, civil, other groups that have been hit hard are:
Motorcycle taxi drivers Restaurants Hairdressers Sellers street vendors Popular dining rooms Popular artists
7 murders in less than 12 hours during a state of emergency (8 October alone).
"Extortion is not aimed at sectors with great economic capacity, it is mainly concentrated in the outskirts, where there is almost no control or presence of law enforcement and which are spaces highly vulnerable due to informality."
  • 7 out of 10 transporters extorted in 2024
S/15 thousand monthly This is the approximate extortion fee that is requested from companies. There are cases that amount to up to S/30 thousand
More than 50% of the 23 thousandwinemakers In Peru they are being extorted in 2024.
Between S/100 and S/4 thousand per month An informal merchant in Gamarra pays the extortion gangs NANAR.
Almost 300 works paralyzed or affected.
S/1,000 milendi losses in the construction sector in the first half of 2024.
Soup kitchens are also victims, with exorbitant figures of up to S/20 thousand per month
In Trujillo, Chiclayo and Piura, 50% of motorcycle taxi drivers are extorted by being asked for up to S/500 weekly
At least 11 motorcycle taxi drivers have been killed so far in 2024
Only 25% of victims report these crimes
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17 sats \ 11 replies \ @rebel_nomad 12 Oct 2024
Who is doing this? Government, gangs or corporations?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 OP 12 Oct 2024
Criminal gangs and the government turn a blind eye, that is, they are accomplices.
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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @Msd0457890 12 Oct 2024
It is not known at this time if the government has anything to do with it, what is known is that extortion is reaching all sectors, which has affected society in general. As an immigrant in Peru I have been able to see and notice the current situation in which Peru finds itself and in which the government is inefficient when it comes to taking measures to stop this wave of crimes.
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0 sats \ 8 replies \ @rebel_nomad 12 Oct 2024
Ok, but who is actually asking for the money and how?
Is it happening through payment via apps and banks? Or on he streets?
There must be something that is know about that...?
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @bief57 OP 12 Oct 2024
I will tell you a personal experience since it is the closest I have been to such situations: I was shopping in a street market, while I was talking to a lady from whom I was going to buy some things, two men arrived with a notebook and pencil, they approached the lady and said one word "cleaning" and she immediately searched her purse for money and gave them some... and so on, they went from vendor to vendor collecting their daily quota. This is not something current, the quota collectors are criminal gangs that have control of many areas of the city and force people to pay... In recent months there are people who have refused to pay, which has led to more violent and blatant murders, the violence has been magnified. Even near that street market, the extortionists left a bomb in a hardware store that refused to pay. All payments are in cash.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @rebel_nomad 12 Oct 2024
So a gang of sorts then...
Giving them cash smeared with anthrax would be fair!
Not easy to dismantle of course...
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @bief57 OP 12 Oct 2024
The worst thing is that there is a law that protects criminals. Many years ago there was terrorism here, it was the worst time in Peru, until Alberto Fujimori finished them off and made Peru stand up again, then the leftists came to power again and Peru is turning to shit again.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Msd0457890 12 Oct 2024
As far as I know, the groups' payments are made in cash and are made to the owners of the large transport companies and if they do not pay their quota, they kill the drivers.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @rebel_nomad 12 Oct 2024
Aha, so its all centered around transport?
Something like this can't just arrive without anyone knowing what is going on?
Unless it hits so hard and suddenly that those who know won't even mention it to friends and family, I guess...
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 OP 12 Oct 2024
It is not only for transport companies, the collection of quotas is directed towards small merchants, restaurants, shops, street vendors, warehouses
If you file a complaint that same day, you will be murdered. The police and the government are accomplices. The police are also corrupt and collect fees in some sectors.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 12 Oct 2024
Thanks for this information. Im sorry you have to live with this. Some of it sounds like the Italian mafia protection rackets that were prevalent in NYC and other big US cities in the mid 20th century.
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43 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 OP 12 Oct 2024
It's the best example you can compare it to, it's a pretty similar situation.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 12 Oct 2024
Excellent post, friend @bief57, the current panorama in Peru has been complex.
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