Como agiotas colombianos dominaram periferias brasileiras?

A loan sharking network has been growing in Brazil in recent years: that of Colombian loan sharks. The practice of lending at interest exists throughout Latin America, driven by poverty and debt rates among the population, but in Colombian cities, it was a scheme engineered over decades by a combination of drug cartels and territorial control. We went to São Cristóvão, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Salvador, the capital of Bahia, to show how this system works. There, merchants' debts and the lack of access to official credit drive the parallel loan system. The people who now roam the neighborhood offering cards with loan terms and demanding payment from debtors were recruited by a criminal network interested in preying on unemployed young people without opportunities in Colombia, a country where successive armed conflicts have been recorded since the late 1940s. In Bahia, there have already been reports of deaths and police involvement in the dynamics of Colombian loan sharking. Reporting and script: Fernanda Santana Images and editing: Eduardo Bastos 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - Colombian Loan Sharking 02:23 - The Recruit 03:26 - Violence 04:26 - Colombia's History of Loan Sharking #brazil #poverty #loan sharking #immigrant #conflict #economy