Behind their flirtatious glances and statuesque figures hide an agonizing drama. Most of them are young women between the ages of 19 and 30, of nationality venezuelanwhich carry prey from the extortive mafiasto whom they are forced to pay large sums of money weekly to be able to prostitute in the streets of Lima. Many have spent years spending hundreds of soles and feel “slaves” to these criminal groups with members who are their countrymen.
What is behind the mafia that extorted Venezuelan sex workers in Northern Lima
Criminals charged them “quotas” of between 400 to 600 soles per week to have a life full of luxuries, excesses and drugs.
for these criminal organizations, the lives of these women are worth a few soles. The consequence of disobeying them is death. They are clear that they are not simple threats, because their friends murdered bullets in the middle of the street made them understand the bad way that their “quota” or “square” must pay for it yes or yes.
According to their own sex workersA good part of the profits they obtain from serving their clients goes to the hands of the members of these dangerous criminal groups. The payments that they are required to let them provide “their services” to the parishioners range from 200 to 600 soles per week, depending on the district.
For them it is the same to exercise the prostitution in Los Olivos than in San Juan de Miraflores, because in each of the so-called ‘pink zones’ of these jurisdictions one of these mafias always operates. Independencia, the Center of Lima, Lince and San Juan de Lurigancho are other districts that have been taken over by these pimps.
Foreign mafias extort and threaten to kill sex workers
Sex workers from various districts of Lima Norte and Lima Sur are tired of the abuses of Venezuelan and Colombian pimps. The members of these criminal organizations continue to grow despite the arrest of their leaders in recent months.
For information from the National PoliceIt is known that extortion mafias of various nationalities operate in Lima. Mainly there are those of Venezuela, who have hegemony in various areas of the capital. At present, they are confronted with criminal organizations from Colombia and Peru, who are fighting to take away their “places”.
Are foreign groups They have the streets “lotizadas” and deploy their members through them to see that their demands are met. Mostly aboard motorcycles, and always heavily armed, these thugs roam their areas, despite the efforts of the police and municipal authorities.
The harlots They report that when they arrive in an area, these mafias send messages via WhatsApp, in which they issue a subtle threat. “We do not want to quote them one by one and speak to them in another way and then they will feel uncomfortable, we await your prompt response. They have to pay a place of 200 soles”.
Young policeman was murdered by alleged hitmen in San Martín de Porres
The 28-year-old victim was on his way home when he was intercepted and surprised with a shot to the head that immediately ended his life.
The threats are no longer subtle when someone refuses to pay their “quota”. The tone rises and, if they persist in not disbursing the amount, the result is that they make an attempt on their life. They reveal that the members of these mafias not only carry guns, but also rifles, ammunition and even grenades that they buy on the black market.
One of the last criminal organizations to be dismantled was the one that operated in the ‘pink zones’ of the olive trees, Comas and Puente Piedra. According to the Police, this was led by Hector Alfonso Prieto Materano36 years old, alias ‘Mammoth’.
“Once they are located in our country, they begin their criminal activities, which is their model of life. They do not have another legal activity profile, their activity is that: the extortion and submission,” said PNP Colonel Víctor Revoredo, head of the Homicide Division.
tight materano He is a native of Caracas, Venezuela, where he was already imprisoned in the Tocoron prisonone of the most dangerous prisons in that country.
Videos posted on TikTok confirmed that, with the money amassed by the collection of “quotas”he and the other members of his gang drank the best drinks, rented huge houses with pools in exclusive areas south of the capital, and owned expensive clothes, jewelry, and slippers.
“All the criminal activity they carry out, hit men, prostitutionextortion and related crimes is to rent these well-known bunkers and yachts, where they hold their parties, giving free rein to their base instincts”, Revoredo indicated.
According to the Police, ‘Mamut’ ordered to bring the Venezuelan girls to Peru, capturing them -many times- with deceit. Some sex workers revealed that they were offered formal jobs, but when they reached their homeland they were put out on the streets.
“In your country there is part of your criminal organization that is dedicated to attracting women who need employment in our country. They capture them, scam them and here they place them in hostels, parks and crowded areas, such as north square”, pointed out the colonel.
In the midst of this panorama, those who are also affected are the people who live in or around these calls ‘pink zones‘, as they ensure that the prostitution it attracts crime and disturbs the tranquility of children and the elderly.
In broad daylight and in full view and with the patience of all, these women offer their sexual services daily. The neighbors are tired of this situation, and many are resigned because for several months the authorities “do nothing.”
In journalistic reports issued, the statements of the affected residents were collected, who do not believe it is possible that their municipalities, the Police or other competent entities can provide a solution to this problem.
They denounce that it is not only about the meretricianbut this attracts people of bad living that increases the incidence of robberies Y assaults on the way at all hours of the day.
