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Mexican cartel provided wifi to locals – with threat of death if they didn’t use it

Mexican cartel provided wifi to locals – with threat of death if they didn’t use it

Criminal group charged $20-$30 a month to about 5,000 people as gangs diversify into sectors other than the drug trade

A cartel in the embattled central Mexico state of Michoacán set up its own makeshift internet antennas and told locals they had to pay to use its wifi service or they would be killed, according to prosecutors.

Dubbed “narco-antennas” by local media, the cartel’s system involved internet antennas set up in various towns built with stolen equipment.

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