Every year, thousands of women, many between the ages of 11 to 14, are lured are smuggled from Mexico into the United States and forced to become sex workers. For a majority of the women, they have no idea what they are getting into. They are seduced by traffickers who promise them a better life, big houses and cars, a coverup for the life of sexual exploitation they will soon endure. Many of these women end up in Queens, New York where they work live and work in brothels and answer only to their pimps. Others are advertised on "chica cards," which includes a phone number customers can call to request sexual services from the women. The BBC's Laura Trevelyan followed the sex trafficking route ... Continue reading →
Synopsis Pascale Harter introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. In this edition: Delivered like pizza Sex trafficking is a brutal business - fueled with the bodies and the misery of women tricked into prostitution by pimps and people traffickers. But who are the dealers, and where are they from? Laura Trevelyan visits a hub of the trade: a sinister town in Mexico - where they know you're coming long before you even get there. A lottery you just can't win Argentina's history is full of economic boom and bust - and political turmoil in their wake. In recent years, the high price of commodities and recession in Europe have worked in the country's favour - but ... Continue reading →
Traffickers' town Tenancingo is a Mexican town built on sex trafficking - with little alternative employment, it's become the only way to make money. Young women from across Mexico are duped into becoming sex slaves by wealthy men living in grand homes, offering them work or even marriage. Needing money for their families, the women discover too late they're being sold into prostitution, often in the US. One Mexican charity estimates there are 1,000 traffickers in Tenancingo, out of a total population of 10,000. Continue reading →
Traffickers' town Tenancingo is a Mexican town built on sex trafficking - with little alternative employment, it's become the only way to make money. Young women from across Mexico are duped into becoming sex slaves by wealthy men living in grand homes, offering them work or even marriage. Needing money for their families, the women discover too late they're being sold into prostitution, often in the US. One Mexican charity estimates there are 1,000 traffickers in Tenancingo, out of a total population of 10,000. Continue reading →
