A Mexican fisheries industry leader who complained of drug cartel extortion and illegal fishing has been shot to death in the northern border state of Baja California. Authorities said Tuesday that gunmen killed Minerva Pérez, the head of the state's fishing industry chamber.
MEXICO CITY — A Mexican fisheries industry leader who complained of drug cartel extortion and illegal fishing was shot to death in the northern border state of Baja California, authorities said Tuesday.
But in the previous months Pérez had also complained that drug cartels are extorting protection payments from fishing boats, distributors, truck drivers and even restaurants. Andrade said those complaints are part of the investigation into Pérez’s killing, but at present her earlier charges of cartel extortion are not.
The government has been “completely indifferent and deaf to pleas from within the industry — from small fishers to large industry actors to seafood processing plants — to provide protection against the cartels,” Felbab-Brown said. An employee at one seafood distribution company in Ensenada, who asked not to be quoted by name for fear of reprisals, said the extortion demands have long been common knowledge in the industry.
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