Overview
- Coparmex reports 8,585 extortion victims in 43 border municipalities and cites a 5.2% year-over-year rise in cases.
- At its national meeting in Tijuana, president Juan José Sierra Álvarez called for a long-term strategy led by the federal government to dismantle impunity and collusion networks.
- The group urges municipalities to purge, strengthen and train police forces, and asks local legislatures to harmonize laws and secure adequate budgets.
- Coparmex describes extortion and cobro de piso as an organized mechanism of economic and political control that is driving silent migration and choking local economies.
- It points to the killing of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo as a sign of deepening public anger and notes no concrete government commitments in response to its demands.