In a collaboration with four media organizations in Latin America, InSight Crime looks at the role of organized crime in driving displacement and slavery in the region — and what authorities have failed to do about it.
Criminal Slavery in Latin America
EL SALVADOR
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28 OCT 2012
Chapter 1
'The Mafia's Shadow' Highlights the Human Rights Consequences of Organized Crime
DISPLACEMENT
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28 OCT 2012
In April of this year, InSight Crime, with financing from the non-governmental organization Internews, met with journalists from four online news media organizations. The four represented the cream of the…
Chapter 2
Slaves of Organized Crime in Latin America
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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25 OCT 2012
In Latin America, the word slavery tends to conjure images of indigenous people subjected to forced labor at the end of a whip, and auctions of African men and women…
Chapter 3
Men Who Sold Women: Human Trafficking Networks in Central America
EL SALVADOR
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25 OCT 2012
A prosecutor asks. Grecia responds. "Where did they do it to you?" "On my right calf. They took us to a place where we did the tattoo. They made us…
Chapter 4
How Mexico's Zetas Enslave Engineers
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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25 OCT 2012
The date was January 25, 2009, and Jose Antonio Robledo Fernandez was talking to his girlfriend on the phone as he parked his car in front of a mechanic shop…
Chapter 5
Of Slaves and Serfs: Guatemala's 'Occupied' Bodies
GUATEMALA
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25 OCT 2012
Organized crime networks dedicated to human trafficking have had a great deal of time to perfect their system and ally themselves with new players in Guatemala, including drug traffickers. Small…
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