In April this year, a criminal gang demanded $2,500 from Peruvian school owner Diomedes Sanchez, before planting a bomb outside the building when he refused to pay. The 50-year-old is one of many hit by an extortion epidemic targeting both the rich and poor across the country, with an association representing businesses claiming an estimated cost of $1.6 billion per year.
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00:00I'm going to take a picture of you with the camera, and then I'm going to take a picture of you with the camera.
00:31Take care of him.
00:38Here's the number.
00:43We haven't paid for anything.
00:46That's why they've put the bomb on us.
00:50And we suspended the class for a week.
00:53More than anything, you're afraid for your life.
00:56Because they're practically criminals who threaten.
01:00And as you may have seen, the torsive messages are putting your life at risk.
01:06Not just for yourself, but for your family.
01:09The family.
01:19These are the heads.
01:21From here, they were born. From this line, they were born.
01:25They're still on, but I didn't say anything.
01:27It's just that down there, there's a labyrinth, they come out here.
01:31I can tell you, Mr. Journalist, objectively, that the Quilombo is not winning.
01:41We are not triumphant.
01:43We still have a lot to do.
01:45The work of widespread control, social control, is very important for society at this time.
01:50So that they know who the people who are behind this criminal pandemic are.
02:02It's my friend.
02:05He lent it to me.