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Mexico’s ‘Other’ Crisis

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Posted on Apr 18, 2010
Al Jazeera English

While most U.S. media coverage of events in Mexico these days focuses on that country’s ongoing drug conflict, other news, such as the fact that Mexico has become America’s leading provider of sex slaves—some as young as 6—gets overlooked.

In what is being called the “other” crisis in Mexico, analysts claim the country has achieved the notorious ranking due to confusion and/or negligence over which agencies have jurisdiction over sex-trafficking cases. —JCL

Al Jazeera English:

Mexico has become the top provider of sex slaves to the Americas, according to the United Nations.

In an effort to tackle the problem, the Mexican government has now signed onto the UN’s Blue Heart campaign, but so far it has had little success in prosecuting and convicting human traffickers.

One reason, according to some analysts, is confusion over which government agencies have jurisdiction over human trafficking cases.

In addition the Mexican government has yet to conduct any comprehensive surveys detailing the true extent of the problem.

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By Thruter, June 16, 2010 at 5:16 pm Link to this comment
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Your answer is very interesting Volma. The medias only
talk about the drug war, but they never mentions that the
narcotraffiquants don’t sell drug only. They sell humans
too, and It’s one of their most important business. How
an important fact like this can be ignored? The only
explanation I see is that a very high power in Mexico and
United State have links with that. And strangely, the
tourists are not aware of this. They believe that the
only risk to travelling in Mexico is the drug war. They
know nothing about the “disappearances” of people. I
think that the tourist industry does not want us to know
the truth about Mexico. A lot of money is involved in the
tourist industry.

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By RLR, April 19, 2010 at 11:03 am Link to this comment

Shameful and outrageous.  What can we do to stop this trade?

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By Volma, April 18, 2010 at 1:18 pm Link to this comment

I hate to use the words good and evil, because people use subjectivity to excuse their behaviors even when they are blatantly bad, like sex slavery….As tax slaves in the US we pay for wars created by our keepers (en-slavers) to allow them to conquer and own whatever is left of the world, not under their control…We pay our keepers to create laws that benefit them..Laws enacted under the guise of a good parent who is only protecting us from ourselves..One obvious example is the illegal drug market…The war on drugs, has created gigantic corporate revenue.The business created by the death, slavery and imprisonment as a companion industry is worth billions…What happened when our own gov agencies (CIA) were exposed as being part of the world wide drug cartel? Nothing…It’s almost completely ignored because apparently no one with legal power wants or dares to…We pay billions to keep ourselves and the rest of the world in oppression and powerlessness. When it comes to a little thing like sex slavery, pedophilia, there is confusion as to who is in charge????This is propaganda code for “Nothing to see here folks, go back to sleep, it’s not your problem, unimportant”...Why is it not important, who are the people buying children for sex slaves? It has to be a substantial market for the sellers..The buyers are not middle class or poor, although I am sure some would like us to believe this. The support structure needed to keep a supply of sex slaves without being exposed by the public would be costly…This is so evil and vile that the average person could not be paid enough to keep their secret..The clients have to be groups of wealthy individuals or private clubs that cater to these groups, to make this business profitable…The middle to low income Billy Bob sex pervert/pedophiles who enslave men women and children in their home made bunkers, usually kidnap their prey…It’s not amazing or just too covert, hard, mysterious to unravel this mystery…This exists because it’s allowed, it’s being diverted, deliberately intentionally hidden/understated, made to look like such a small problem that it’s just not that important to put competent resources to.  Similar to 911, the military resources that protect the airspace around the capital were diverted busy that day, oops.. Or oops, the banks, gov highly educated people in the US had no clue about the economic structure surrounding the housing bubble…The Big Brother system of the NSA, monitors all phones/internet activities in the name of security…Local regional state and federal agencies spend billions on busting citizens growing/selling marijuana for medicinal/recreational purposes. Legal alcohol kills millions of people drinkers and innocents, organ failure,coma’s,domestic violence, child abuse, neglect, murders, car accidents. Alcohol creates state and private revenues for businesses, jails, insurance etc..Peace groups are infiltrated by the feds to identify potential dissenters to the current regime..And for some terribly mysterious reason, the underground source for the drug market bringing heroin, meth, cocaine are still strong and on going… The local busts of the little citizen are nothing but local propaganda spin to uphold the War On Drugs propaganda..The occasional big bust of drug cartels are nothing but getting rid of participants that do not benefit “Them” The occasional lip service mention of child sex slavery is nothing but spin, lip service…The buyers of this are the wealthy elite, and under our current system of “sheeple”  enslavement, they will never be caught, they are protected from this…We have all the resources and know how to stop this, and we could…Think about it, rationalize all you want, the truth of the matter is at the very core of our collective enslavement.

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By skulz fontaine, April 18, 2010 at 10:34 am Link to this comment

Are these “slaves” Catholic?

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