Comments on: Modern Day Slavery in Mexico and the United States http://www.coha.org/modern-day-slavery-in-mexico-and-the-united-states/ COHA is an NGO specialized in monitoring Latin American and Canadian Relations for more than 30 years... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:22:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chuck Goolsby http://www.coha.org/modern-day-slavery-in-mexico-and-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-35228 Chuck Goolsby Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:34:35 +0000 http://www.coha.org/?p=7537#comment-35228 Given these conditions of impunity, and given the ever-increasing community of trafficking victims who face certain death from abuse, starvation, torture and exposure to HIV/AIDS, we ask that U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Luis CdeBaca, Ambassador-at-Large and director of the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking In Persons, publicly declare a strong and assertive policy in favor of the defense of equal rights for women and girls in Mexico in the face of this mass gender atrocity. We call upon all of the world’s governments and inter-governmental organizations to openly challenge the status quo in Mexico in regard to its failure to defend women's right to a life free from violence, and in regard to its open acquiescence to the forces of criminal impunity. Chuck Goolsby Founder and Coordinator <a href="http://www.LibertadLatina.org" rel="nofollow">www.LibertadLatina.org</a> Washington, DC Dec. 21, 2009 Given these conditions of impunity, and given the ever-increasing community of trafficking victims who face certain death from abuse, starvation, torture and exposure to HIV/AIDS, we ask that U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Luis CdeBaca, Ambassador-at-Large and director of the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking In Persons, publicly declare a strong and assertive policy in favor of the defense of equal rights for women and girls in Mexico in the face of this mass gender atrocity.

We call upon all of the world’s governments and inter-governmental organizations to openly challenge the status quo in Mexico in regard to its failure to defend women's right to a life free from violence, and in regard to its open acquiescence to the forces of criminal impunity.

Chuck Goolsby
Founder and Coordinator
http://www.LibertadLatina.org
Washington, DC
Dec. 21, 2009

]]> By: Chuck Goolsby http://www.coha.org/modern-day-slavery-in-mexico-and-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-35229 Chuck Goolsby Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:35:03 +0000 http://www.coha.org/?p=7537#comment-35229 See also: Dynamics of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking from Latin America into the United States Cultural background, dynamics of exploitation, sex trafficking, impacts upon the United States, recommendations for professionals. Charles M. Goolsby, Jr. 2003 <a href="http://www.libertadlatina.org/LL_LatAm_US_Slavery_Report_01_2003.htm" target="_blank">http://www.libertadlatina.org/LL_LatAm_US_Slavery...</a> See also:

Dynamics of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking from Latin America into the United States

Cultural background, dynamics of exploitation, sex trafficking, impacts upon the United States, recommendations for professionals.

Charles M. Goolsby, Jr. 2003

http://www.libertadlatina.org/LL_LatAm_US_Slavery…

]]> By: Chuck Goolsby http://www.coha.org/modern-day-slavery-in-mexico-and-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-35227 Chuck Goolsby Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:33:24 +0000 http://www.coha.org/?p=7537#comment-35227 9. Cecilia Romero, an long-time official in the ruling PAN political party, and head of Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM), stated in a June 20, 2009 article appearing in Mexico City’s leading El Universal newspaper, that sex tourism and pedophile [child sex trafficking] networks are "inevitable", "evils of humanity" and cannot be stopped. 10. Award-winning journalist, author and anti-child sex trafficking activist Lydia Cacho recently declared, Mexico’s justice system is “impregnated with corruption and impunity.” She was referring specifically to her own experience as a victim of government organized retaliation for her muckraking journalism on the linkages between millionaire child sex traffickers in Cancun and government officials. 9. Cecilia Romero, an long-time official in the ruling PAN political party, and head of Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM), stated in a June 20, 2009 article appearing in Mexico City’s leading El Universal newspaper, that sex tourism and pedophile [child sex trafficking] networks are "inevitable", "evils of humanity" and cannot be stopped.

10. Award-winning journalist, author and anti-child sex trafficking activist Lydia Cacho recently declared, Mexico’s justice system is “impregnated with corruption and impunity.” She was referring specifically to her own experience as a victim of government organized retaliation for her muckraking journalism on the linkages between millionaire child sex traffickers in Cancun and government officials.

]]> By: Chuck Goolsby http://www.coha.org/modern-day-slavery-in-mexico-and-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-35226 Chuck Goolsby Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:32:18 +0000 http://www.coha.org/?p=7537#comment-35226 6. As the National Human Rights Commission documented in a 2009 report, approximately 10,000 Central and South American migrants who were crossing Mexico in an attempt to reach the United States were kidnapped, mostly for ransom, during a recent 6 month period. 7. Award-winning anti-child sex trafficking activist Lydia Cacho notes that Mexico's government has refused to collaborate with a British organization in tracking down Internet child pornographers. 8. The administration of President Felipe Calderón intentionally dragged its feet for over one year, and refused to published the federal regulations to enable the nation's first federal law to fight human trafficking. When the regulations were published, they were denounced by leaders in the anti-trafficking movement for being weak and ineffective. This represents an apparently intentional accommodation of the sex trafficking rings that permeate Mexico, and who's millions of pesos in payoff money saturates every corner of government and society. 6. As the National Human Rights Commission documented in a 2009 report, approximately 10,000 Central and South American migrants who were crossing Mexico in an attempt to reach the United States were kidnapped, mostly for ransom, during a recent 6 month period.

7. Award-winning anti-child sex trafficking activist Lydia Cacho notes that Mexico's government has refused to collaborate with a British organization in tracking down Internet child pornographers.

8. The administration of President Felipe Calderón intentionally dragged its feet for over one year, and refused to published the federal regulations to enable the nation's first federal law to fight human trafficking. When the regulations were published, they were denounced by leaders in the anti-trafficking movement for being weak and ineffective. This represents an apparently intentional accommodation of the sex trafficking rings that permeate Mexico, and who's millions of pesos in payoff money saturates every corner of government and society.

]]> By: Chuck Goolsby http://www.coha.org/modern-day-slavery-in-mexico-and-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-35225 Chuck Goolsby Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:31:15 +0000 http://www.coha.org/?p=7537#comment-35225 5. Girl children who are raped in situations of incest have no access to abortion (because incest is considered to be consensual [yes, even for children] under the laws of most Mexican states, therefore, the exception for cases of rape does not legally apply). These victims also face the risk of being charged with the same crime as the adult men and teen perpetrators, and they face the threat of receiving the same punishment, because under Mexican law they are seen as consenting participants in the crime of incest, even if they were forcibly raped at the age of 6. These dynamics lead to forcing tens of thousands of young girls out of their homes, where they are routinely entrapped by sex traffickers at a very young age. In Mexico, victims include not only citizens, but also many thousands of South and Central American migrant girls who were kidnapped or coerced into becoming prostitutes. 5. Girl children who are raped in situations of incest have no access to abortion (because incest is considered to be consensual [yes, even for children] under the laws of most Mexican states, therefore, the exception for cases of rape does not legally apply).

These victims also face the risk of being charged with the same crime as the adult men and teen perpetrators, and they face the threat of receiving the same punishment, because under Mexican law they are seen as consenting participants in the crime of incest, even if they were forcibly raped at the age of 6.

These dynamics lead to forcing tens of thousands of young girls out of their homes, where they are routinely entrapped by sex traffickers at a very young age.

In Mexico, victims include not only citizens, but also many thousands of South and Central American migrant girls who were kidnapped or coerced into becoming prostitutes.

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