Women and the elderly: main victims of extortion "drip"

Salvador Guerrero Chiprés, President of the Citizens Council for Security and Justice, said that The main victims of "drip" extortionists are women and the elderly. Most collectors are men.

Express loan, better known as "Drop by Drop" offers money without endorsement and with a procedure that only requires an identification. Women and the elderly are economically and legally vulnerable and those who are paid are men of South American origin.

"It's a relatively old scheme and it has a presence in Mexico that I believe dates of at least six years, where it is used to create, essentially, the control of the territory and the soil ", mentioned Salvador Guerrero for L & # 39; universal.

According to data provided by the Citizens Council for Security and Justice, it has been said that extraordinary profits are around 300% a year, applied to loans that go from 2,000 to 500,000 pesos.

"His goal is double, is to obtain high returns, combined with the territorial capacity to set up a network of ground rights collection, that is to say a permanent income, "he confirmed.

In January 2019, the capital's government asked citizens not to accept any type of loan, because the usurers come to charge very high interests that end with threats or even homicides. After the warning, the The Citizen Council has received more than 500 victims' appeals.

"We have a phone line where calls come in, but not all of them become a report. there were 554 calls, but 183 of them were reported to the drip reportGuerrero commented.

The main mayors who have this problem are: Gustavo A. Madero, with 22%; Cuauhtemoc, with 19% e Iztapalapa, with 12%. In the 13 other town halls, only the 2%.

Regarding the "drip" presence in the states of the Mexican Republic, Guerrero indicated that the complaints came from State of Mexico, with 76%; Morelos, 5%; Hidalgo, 3%; Veracruz, 3% and Yucatán, 2%.

Those who have been extorted by the "drip" say that they have a different accent: "his perception is that they are Colombian, Chilean and Venezuelan. That's what they say, it's important to recognize that the pattern that they are South American. If there are Mexicans, "he said.

"We have several recommendations, because the basis of the" drip "is the legal vulnerability, which do not require loan formalization, psychosocial profitability peoplewhich is very hard to resist, "he said.