Extortion as a risk to businesses
- Macroeconomy, ratings and risk
- Sovereign rating and country risk
- not audited
Specialist sources recognize it as the crime that hits small and medium-sized enterprises, transport operators and neighborhood shops hardest; InSight Crime profiles Guatemala's extortion groups as among the most sophisticated in Central America. The hard numbers — annual complaints to the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP)/PNC and the estimated economic cost to SMEs — were not retrieved in this pass; the candidate sources are the Public Prosecutor's Office Statistical Portal, CIEN (which blocked the fetch) and InSight Crime.
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