Some migrants reportedly paid large sums of money to network participants to be able to cross the border into the United States.
More of 200 suspicious people having participated in a vast illegal migrant smuggling and human trafficking They were arrested in and from South and Central America in a large raid coordinated by Interpol, that organization reported this Friday.
Called “Turquesa”, this operation led to 216 arrests and allowed the identification of 10,000 migrants in an irregular situation, from 61 countries.
It took place between November 29 and December 3.
Many of those migrants paid “exorbitant” sums to traffickers to be able to make sometimes dangerous passages.
In its statement, Interpol – which is based in Lyon, France – cites the example of 14 suspects arrested in El Salvador, who charged migrants between $ 8,000 and $ 12,000 (between 7,100 and just over 10,500 euros) to make them enter the United States.
Two people are captured for the alleged crime of human trafficking on the border between Ecuador and Colombia
Another example: 16 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang “Tren de Aragua” were arrested in Ecuador on suspicion of smuggling Haitian migrants, with the help of a Colombian armed group.
Five members of a Brazilian criminal group, which allegedly facilitated the illegal immigration of Haitians to Bolivia, were also detained by the federal police of their country.
Migrants from another world, a special on the trafficking of people from Asia and Africa who use Ecuador as a route to the United States
In Mexico, some 20,000 “virgin” passports, while the discovery in Chile of the corpse of a Venezuelan near its border with Bolivia made it possible to find a corridor used by traffickers, supported by a Bolivian citizen.
Coordinated from Mexico DF, this The investigation mobilized police officers from 34 countries.
In addition, it revealed that the amount of children who are victims of this trafficking has increased compared to previous investigations. Most of the time, trafficking is done for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
In Tulcán they dismantle an alleged international gang dedicated to human trafficking
In Colombia, the criminal organization “Casa Inglesa”, precisely reputed for the sexual exploitation of children in Bogotá, was thus dismantled. These were also “recruited” in Venezuela and taken to Ecuador, via Colombia.
Sexual exploitation was sometimes combined with labor exploitation: 27 people in El Salvador they are suspected of being involved in these.
“Working together, we dismantle criminal structures, cutting off important sources of income and, above all, we help innocent victims “said Jürgen Stock, Interpol’s secretary general. (I)
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