Extortion, the millionaire business that runs through Latin America in the hands of "criminal companies" From Mexico to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, passing through El Salvador, Honduras or Guatemala, blackmail has undermined citizen security. Its million-dollar profits place it behind drug trafficking or human trafficking, and it may be more profitable than illegal mining.
Small and large merchants, transporters, residential centers and entire towns are victims of local or international organizations. In Peru, extortion even knocked on the doors of football.