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Sudetenland Tales
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In 2021, the weekly calls demanding money in exchange for “security” resumed. Under advice of his attorneys, the owner eventually stopped going into the shop, instead managing everything remotely.
Mexico City Police Chief Pablo Vázquez Camacho said that police were receiving more reports of extortion, but recognized that they still weren’t hearing about many more. “We can’t solve something that we’re not even seeing or that isn’t being reported,” Vázquez said.
The problem, said Vicente Gutiérrez Camposeco, president of the Mexico City Chamber of Commerce, “has become entrenched” in Mexico and especially the capital in recent years. The people who are being extorted know that the police are complicit in the operation.
Daniel Bernardi, whose family has run a popsicle shop in the historic center for 85 years, was resigned to the situation. “There isn't much to do,” he said. "You pay when you have to pay."
Last month, the Mexico City prosecutor’s office announced that it was creating a special prosecutor’s office to investigate and prosecute extortion.
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