Black figure of 97.7%: floor charges suffocate businesses in total impunity

Extortion has become a highly profitable revenue source for organized crime in Mexico, massively affecting the business sector. The “cobro de piso” (extortion tax) stands out as a structured modality that generates illicit income through threats and false promises of protection, demonstrating how fear is transformed into a systematic criminal enterprise that undermines the economic security of businesses. The serious lack of institutional responses is reflected in an overwhelming black figure, where nearly all these crimes remain uninvestigated. This widespread impunity leaves victims unprotected, highlighting a severe gap between the incidence of crime and the justice system’s capacity to respond, thereby perpetuating economic violence and eroding trust in authorities. This article is relevant to open data because it underscores the critical need to recover and make transparent information that currently remains hidden. To dismantle these criminal networks, it is imperative to implement mechanisms that enable formal registration and public access to accurate data on victimization, thus facilitating the analysis of evidence-based public policies grounded in real data rather than underreported figures.

Source: tvazteca.com
Published on 2026-11-12

Black figure of 97.7%: floor charges suffocate businesses in total impunity

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