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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Carlos Mandujano

Pay Or 'Blood Flows': Peru Battles Extortion Epidemic

Members of an anti-extortion task force patrol the Peruvian city of Trujillo (Credit: AFP)

With a gun in hand, Colonel Victor Revoredo and his team watched a small house where one of the most wanted criminals in Trujillo, the epicenter of extortion in northern Peru, could be hiding.

"This is where Cortadedos (Finger Cutter) lives," whispered the head of an anti-extortion task force trying to clean up the city of just over a million inhabitants, the third largest in the Andean country.

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