Search This Blog

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Cartel Extortion Practices/Targets

Source: Mexico details La Familia extortion practices - San Jose Mercury News

Excerpt from article by Associated Press:

MEXICO CITY—Mexico's federal police agency says the Michoacan-based La Familia drug gang extorts a wide variety of industries, including avocado and lime farmers, miners, ranchers and even bullfighting organizers.

The Public Security Secretariat says that in order to supplement its income, La Familia forces miners to pay $1.50 per ton of metal sold to China and cattle ranchers to pay $1 per kilogram of meat.

No comments:

Post a Comment