The crisis sparked two days of strikes as workers expressed their fury at what they saw as dismal law enforcement, poor leadership by an unpopular government and a deliberate weakening of anti-crime legislation by the loathed congress.
Extortion is not aimed at sectors with high economic capacity. It is mainly focused on the periphery, where there is almost no control or presence of law-enforcement agencies.
In less than 12 hours on 8 October, seven murders occurred in Lima, despite a two-month state of emergency in 14 districts.
Protestors chanted: 'They are killing us', meaning literally, but also economically, as extortion victims are mostly informal workers getting by day to day.
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