Lima, Oct 24, 2025 (AFP) - In extortion-plagued Peru, driving a bus can be deadly

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2025-10-24

Marco Antonio Huaman, a bus driver, was filling up with fuel in Lima last month when he got shot in the leg. Next time he'd be dead, the gunman told him, unless the bus company paid a shakedown. Huaman's employer and others in Peru are in the grips of an extortion wave that has claimed the lives of dozens of drivers, musicians and other professionals. Experts say the criminal practice has taken off amid high levels of post-pandemic poverty and......

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