Tenancingo y el imperio del tráfico sexual de mujeres; cuna de padrotes e impunidad

8 or 9 in the first week in the first week of the year, a journalist from the team that accompanied a journalist who was working for the fox network in the USA, the journalist Lara Logan, presented the advance of a job they would broadcast days later about how they had failed in their attempt to do a report on human trafficking

sexual

slavery family businesses linked to, well, this to sex trafficking in

tenancingo

tlaxcala there we are seeing it on the screen we and several media outlets had managed to enter but badly they have five always with difficulties always with problems because because the groups themselves, the people themselves, the slavers themselves prevented this work, that possibility makes journalism and cost, we talked with the editors of the universal and we agreed if it was possible and without this being an exercise it is suicidal, which is the last thing we seek for the possibility of entering together, a journalist from this program and a journalist from El Universal, we agreed that we asked Humberto Padgett on our part and El Universal asked a thousand Melissa Amezcua and they were able to enter, they entered Tenancingo.

The job is published today this morning, this Wednesday, February 5 as the main note of the universal with the title sex trafficking family business in la scala and we are here and we are going to present the radio and television version in the morning so first of all they were able to enter athens 5 they had to do journalistic work melissa mix reporter of the universal transport with us with trias humberto budget good morning but good morning we heard you well because during the past weeks we made several entries to the region of tlaxcala in which the municipality of

tenancingo

is located, a global reference not only national of

sexual

slavery the reports of the UN mention it as an area in which families have prospered at least during the last five decades in which the way of a trade has been perpetuated as if it were a custom and the slavery of women for sexual purposes who are taken from initial way to the surroundings of having five to the capital of puebla to the city of mexico to more distant places towards the north such as irapuato and other more distant ones such as tijuana and enters the usa where investigations have been carried out in the cities of the angels chicago and new york that have managed to reduce sexual slavery not because of the intention of the English channels not because of the intention of the Tlaxcalans not because of the will of the Mexicans but because the American authorities have done so however and that is what we find the universal and The formula is that even after various complaints, activity persists in the city of Tenancingo with families that are still imprisoned, some of their extradited segments in the United States maintain ties that extend and if we enter Tenancingo but not only enter Tenancingo, we document Tenancingo to Melissa melissa melis amezcua and well one of the families that we found that continues to operate despite this being investigated since 2000 in the US by ais that the immigration agency in the US continues to operate here through two people and one of the houses that we visited in tenancingo one of these mansions that is also famous for that reason they have five because it looks like a ghost town it gives the appearance of being like that with these huge californian style mansions that come out a little bit like the architecture another of the things we discovered It is also the organization that the neighbors have in Tenancingo through a chat that was where they communicated about the presence of Lara Lara Logan.

For example, I was very surprised to see how they were following up with street-by-street photographs of what they have five where they thought they had, Humberto and I also wrote a chronicle about this that is published on the university site of universal.com where they talk about how they were terrorists who were hanging around a high school and that the team of these sounds will use lara logan that they had in October they were there on October 23 between 12:43 pm on October 3 and 107 pm that same day they were only there for 20:24 minutes during which the blinds flew and they crossed two hills without realizing what very close they were to crashing I speak figuratively the follow-up and if you like in a moment more we will detail it with the sisters the goals capable of screens the images what we are going to see now also on the screen if that seems good to you melissa and we are describing they are the houses we saw and who they belong to we found at work we are going to play the audio because I did that right at the moment we are looking at a large cement house on a road that the house is a kilometer and a half away we are going to listen to a pimp reputed and thus recognized by the authorities in Mexico and the United States, it has open investigation folders, part of its network is free.

We are in Tenancingo, Tlaxcala, on a road that leads to the town. The limit between the entities is barely a kilometer and a half from here and In the background with the red bricks, Kamel Nacif's denim factory, another reputed pimp in the region, this is on the outskirts of Tenancingo Félix and that is the last street in Tenancingo, and what follows is the town and this house is owned by the Freddy brothers. and it is not Roja Romero, we obtained partial access to 21 preliminary investigations opened by the Attorney General's Office during the years 2012 and 2013, which reveal the existence of at least 20 families that are involved with the deal, most of these are related. among themselves and while some prominent pimps have been extradited and in 2011 there was an FBI operation that in person, that is, not through a mandate requested from the Mexican federal authorities but with agents in places in Tlaxcala, in 2011 the arrest of relevant people the business of sexual exploitation the business persists there are even some statistics if you like to comment something about it if you want to continue commenting on the network yes well what we found what we tried to do was how to break down the modus based on the research folders trafficking operandi and we discovered that they operate in a family business.

We can say this that they operate through brothers. The wives are generally also victims and perpetrators because they in turn recruit the women. They also operate from network to network, for example from Tenancingo to puebla and irapuato through hotels bars restaurants safe houses acapulco acapulco monterrey veracruz for example the example case that we took which was that of the red romero family was that having this network ends in houston texas where bars have also been identified luxury cars luxury houses and they are people who are still operating in houston texas there are houses in which small properties live where up to 20 immigrants live who come to spend the night in some cases they rent the places where they live for 12 hours that is to say they have They have to leave the place at 8 in the morning to go to work and they can enter again until 81 at night to go back to sleep.

Another shift alternates on the weekends when everyone rests. They are provided sexually by women exploited by the sex networks. tlaxcala born slow 15 that is tenancingo today because a person writes to us and tells me tenancingo is much more a myth, it is a place that is emptying that is no longer that center that they require, they went up like this the myth of tenancingo remains so much and how much it still is This center, let me call it that of the creation and distribution of women for slavery, exploitation, deals with both I admit that they saw time either in Tenancingo or in everyday life and it seems like this one or two that are in a report 'el universal' I am asking for the exit It seems like the ordinary life of a town in central Mexico with the peculiarities of the Californian style houses that Melisa has referred to, what are these houses with multiple waterfalls with many prominences and they call them peaks that are not necessarily pimp houses we photographed four houses and now Ideo needy there they are, let's see we are going to have to pause and we return with this point the houses daily life and this that is so empty whether they have five or is it still the one he sat in a center There will be a word, it is sexual slavery, yes, but a center of which center is rural, we could say that it is rather the cradle of pimps, Dashiell, it is a cradle that continues to produce, you, it is a cradle that has sold out, yes, but we were not going to say much less because well. we pause and continue with this work on tenancingo joint work in the morning 'el universal' we return we continue talking with melissa melis amezcua from the newspaper 'el universal' and with humberto padgett who entered tenancingo that the fox team had not been able to do ago a few months ago to do a report and a chronicle of what daily life is like today there are 5 in Tehran and what they could see to report on the business this infamous infernal business of sex trafficking slavery but there is a question melissa ask you for the The answer does not make them one of our most rigorous listeners and says it is not a kind of cliched hyperbole calling Tenancingo the national capital of the sexual slavery trafficking in Mexico does not lead to this mistakenly thinking that the problem is concentrated there and that the rest of the country is free of criminal networks dedicated to human trafficking melissa well what we found is that we have is not the capital of trafficking but it is the cradle of pimps it is a family business that is inherited and there Let's say the operations are the first point, one of the first points of the women who are kidnapped are taken to cases in Tenancingo and the surroundings of Papalotla.

It is also near the south of Tlaxcala and what the activists and academics of Tlaxcala tell us is that It is a phenomenon that has spread to 23 municipalities of the 70 that the scale has due to the inaction of the authorities at an atom level at all levels, also as a whole, something that we found and that Humberto and I discussed preparing this this report was that well It seems that there is a little more political will on the part of the US government to combat trafficking in Mexico than the Mexican government itself, the Mexican government, are you referring to the government of the scale, government of the scale and government, not to mention the municipal government, of course, Fernando that is a saying and the forgetfulness included the federal government its part is humberto if before seeing this image in the houses everything they found among the largest number of files opened against and traffickers in that region of the country were done between 2012 and 2013 at the end of the Calderón administration the beginning of the Peña Nieto - many things have happened between the time we started talking about Tenancingo as a journalist I have done work since 2003 and since the late 90s the existence of the town of the censuses train was commented on 5 and a series of myths were built, including some of a magical nature, etc.

What has happened since then there were no anti-trafficking laws, the anti-trafficking laws in Mexico were consolidated until 2007, so there was not a sufficient legal framework to be able to prosecute them and what we now call human trafficking was punished at that time as white slavery, a particular type of racist crime. the main market provided by the street pimps the economy melissa humberto was or is heading today is the morning of February 2009 in 2003 the count was 3000 women in the area of ​​la merced there were carousels called that in apple groves the What I describe in the triple is that they existed in these places where women circled around a group made by the men who hired them and took them to motels that could have existed in the Middle Ages and would have been considered unhealthy places, that already It does not exist, I was in this as part of this work at the mercy and what there are are dozens of women, not thousands.

Since 2003, dozens of hotels have closed in which the practice of sexual slavery was carried out, also in 2003 and then in 2007 and then Again in 2010 I toured the center of the city of town where one of the centers of forced prostitution or plain prostitution is located on 14 Oriente and 16 Oriente streets, there were clusters of women who were involved in that. It is no longer realistic because I think that The issue of possession is a bit of a symbol that serves as an object of study, perhaps to demonstrate how trafficking networks work. This seems to me to be an important point that we also touch on in the report.

It is the issue of the victims that many Sometimes they are not assumed to be victims and there is also a bit of a problem in telling the story of telling the opposite data. We also have, for example, the data of only 83% of the victims that there have been in Tlaxcala, nothing more than trafficking for exploitation purposes. sexual from 2011 to 2018, 86, 83 percent are left defenseless, the rest, if I set these 80 and 83 percent, see and these are 154 folders, nothing more, they are very few on the images, but then we are left with this head of the universal sex trafficking business of families on the scale of an el boden say current business of families then a business that pursues downward and expanding as a doctor as Melissa said to several other municipalities 23 of 70 municipalities extending to several municipalities of Tlaxcala with the size small territorial area of ​​tlaxcala urban buses to the city of puebla what I also want to say is that we all paid attention to tenancingo and we also built it symbolically as the only place inThe fact that this happened when the activity was diversifying to other places because they had less attention from the media and the authorities, today they have 5 and we saw in addition to the four inhabited houses in which we had documentary certainty that they existed so if we are going to see them Let's see, make a garden, let's talk about the crisis.

It's a graffitied house that belonged to a family of fools. The house is abandoned. The front is boarded up. The walls are graffitied. This house, for example, belongs to the Carreto Valencia family, which was staccato by skill. Carreto Valencia. which was this emblematic case documented by the 'new york times' in 2005 from which is derived if I'm not mistaken the film of the chosen ones by david pablos jorge I returned outside he wrote around huelva yes yes and this is one is our source what He told us that this is the house in which they lived, they have been sentenced since the mother puts them to death, it is a completely abandoned house and the others are the other house and we see a house that also belongs to another pimp who was left half built.

Also for the same reason, another thing that has changed since previously the recruitment that the pimps did in other parts of the country has been prevented because the transit now through Mexico is much more complicated than it was 20 years ago in the splendor of the pimps. of the scala, that is, now they are subject to arrests and also lynchings that were carried out when they were observed. This is the part. If we go to the next image, we see in the background one of the houses that was also left half-built on this corner. What is called and is the corner of the movement is a place considered by the authorities as a meeting point for retail drug dealers and people who participated, among other things, in the lynching of Lara Logan because I insist that it almost happened and in a previous lynching that It is relevant that now we take the images but it seems like a ghost town, there are really few people that there were now and Melissa was more or less approximately nine between nine and ten in the morning between 9 and 10 in the morning if there are few people no one in some in some points like it is in the house that we are seeing on the left of green color also belonged to a pimp the house that we see that follows the title they speak in past tense if this house is supposed to be owned by three brothers one of the who is already detained, imprisoned and sentenced in the United States, the other two are going through a drug addiction problem, which is another issue.

The Tenancingo gangsters were a local organized criminal structure that has also been superimposed by larger groups that have been involved in the region of fuel theft very for example I don't know a pause something simpler pause to Melissa we don't pause and we conclude we conclude the images about this work that is very well deployed today it is the main note in the universal sex trafficking business families in Tlaxcala the tour the chronicle of the tour they took through tenancingo and a week about ten days ago about ten days ago eluniversal reporter melis amezcua and the reporter of this program group formula humberto padgett resources comments 835 we return we conclude with this work and we have we have much more return melissa melis amezcua reporter from el universal tell us more about families and victims today there in tehran 5 about families and victims what they saw what was reported well what we report a piece of information that is also handled by the inegi statistical yearbook for example in 2017 is that in tenancingo and In the southern area of ​​Tlaxcala there are no hotels, motels or nightclubs, nor are they important points that I think should be observed to understand a little how trafficking moves and if it is still in force, however it still exists if one does it, it is not even necessary.

Go to Tlaxcala by taking a tour on Google Maps, for example, you can still see these signs of trafficking, the houses in the hotels, the nightclubs that do exist in these places, there is also a disparity in terms of, for example, in terms of figures, something that What we found is that the PGR left data that does not agree with that of the current prosecutor's office, so reporting trafficking has been a bit difficult because there is no concrete data, but beyond the data, the question for both of us is the vision, I insist, in everyday life, many times we have the statistics but you know and you know as reporters that sometimes it is enough to step into a place to have a clear idea of ​​what is happening and anna the impression after reading the universal note I insist that this is a place that has moved and that It has displaced this 10 years ago trafficking center human trafficking either by pure business logic of the slavers before well something they want to add in the law is public it is list of the 10 most wanted for example in January of this year and four are people who have breasts and that is not necessarily so long since 2007 it is a place it is 12 and country i the crowns another la catrina the ones I entered were two the bora bora ten years ago the no now the bora bora the place that you fall in love with and the california in bora bora and in california in each place there are about 30 women who, for the size of the place, are actually measuring, yes, well, we did the route between ten and papalotla, it is no more than 10 kilometers and we found 13 transit hotels where trafficking is openly offered that are now almost empty and I went into one of the hotels there and spent the night also trying to see if these places are trafficking points and not the truth is that there are no I brought, as indisputable proof of my time there, a soap called rosa swift until I lovingly give you this one that is unused if two seasons the rosa - well they are not places of exploitation it is obviously these these hotels I repeat things have changed over time Driving, you tell me about work, we know that your conclusion is the work published and in the universal, but for the radio, but I could say that trafficking in women for the purposes of sexual exploitation does exist in Tlaxcala, it is not the only state in which it occurs.

The fact that this occurs is rather it is continued, it is a tradition, let's say it is an almost cultural way of life where a family business is inherited in the operating modes and, let's say, the pimps' manual was created on a scale and has been expanding. because what we also found is that this operates the same in all states today and because you were able to go in to do this work that failed the failure to the two united teams not your opinion and no it is not about not leaving us if you already saw after things apparently Apparently Fox entered with this character whose figure is called a fixer who is a kind of facilitator of reports for the foreign press who come to Mexico or another country with peculiarities, complications and weapons and they go with a great display.

They were not carrying duties in one of the trucks. The three trucks, two of them, had cameras mounted on the rear-view side mirrors, one more on the very bulky big league mirror, and they had these cameras in the tailgates of the trucks. If what we have in the screenshots of an internal chat is one of those people were going to kill them they were going to kill them like this now now you are going to see let's put that I would also like to hear Melissa's point of view we have the screenshots she says this is a group called tenancingo opinions if I live 0 fourth section and that day 12 at 1243 in the day roy says what's up compass there are some batos hanging around the high school they are like three trucks with cameras that there are carnales says the sheep where company they start to get alarmed because here they start these people they turn around a public high school at the time when people are leaving you don't have to go to tlaxcala you can go to iztapalapa or guanajuato or cancun or tijuana and if you ride in three closed vans with tinted windows and go round three rounds like they tell us the people from fox did around of a public secondary school where there are girls, what you are going to do is have a lot of people at least worried.

It had only happened on September 27th before, it is not true on September 23rd that there were days before the lynching arrived in which no It took more than a rumor to get two people out of their house and without the municipal police of Tenancingo being able to remove them, the people insisted, the people of the town became a mob, they concluded that they were kidnappers, they beat them to death and at the moment of his agony, they put cars on top of Ciro, let's see, we don't need much more, the mob is not characterized by intelligence, the person they had supposedly kidnapped reappeared two weeks later, saying yes, I'm a good mother, felisa, well, what they did.

This US team wanted what you did, well, I don't know if I think that a bit the key has been the low profile in any risk situation in this country to report low profile and I think that's just what gringos suddenly don't usually do. A lot of them come and deploy with large trucks, we arrived exactly something that they also mentioned in the chat are the plates, they were plates, if not correctly I remember the diplomatic keys of the secretary of foreign relations, it is a quite intelligent and well-informed chat, it is the one they say are terrorists erase what they say from the plates: they are terrorists and they were diplomatic plates, that is, again, intelligence does not deprive the mob of ammunition.

Well, I also think that it is a bit of the life that I imagine, the life that these people in Tenancingo have had and just the stigma that they carry so they take too much care of each other, they talk a lot about going into the church and ringing the bells that they say, it doesn't matter what the priest says, no matter what the municipal presidency says, they talk about how they had already burned the municipal presidency before. and that it was fun for them, they say, roy says, just don't tell the cops, I don't know if they are, but that's how they refer to the municipal police, they hydrate them, that there are federals who want to weave them, what foxnews also does is accuse complicity between the police. municipal police and the traffickers when the municipal police had previously failed in their attempt to rescue people who were finally swelled without the state police and the federal national guard authorities entering then they say let's not tell them and begin to say call the center and knock the fucking bells for them to meet in the center and the lynch have like the bulls buttholes I go my carnals and I bring the toys in reference that they were armed they begin to share photographs of the trucks or they were going to kill each other or when the American was the police They stop but as soon as the 2 was armed this last year they have four long weapons there is no worse time to do municipal authority than this one is served as the deal of the Sinaloa cartel of the federal government with army and special forces the capture of the municipal authorities myths of Tenancingo the Whatever you want, it is said that the 20,000 people who live in the municipality are dedicated to trafficking would be considered newborns, but more important than that, there are 12,000 people living in Tenancingo.

It has been said that the trafficking business in Tenancingo reports annual profits of 15 billion. of pesos is a place with a budget of 40 million pesos per year whose magnum opus is a fast soccer field, very small to the point of tenderness, that is to say, the municipal authorities do not have the capacity to face this, the municipal authorities end up managing to have it They go and says cowboy in the group that's why they start fighting because of them we have to make chaos in the presidency we have to burn another car the presidency better thinks cowboy molas says against them we have to make chaos in the presidency and says another one so that they don't play with us there is no intelligence or spelling and that hurts us almost good as it is here is this work many thanks to the editors of the universal for this proposal for having also taken it with the seriousness with which they took it for having assigned a reporter from your level and melissa melissa month with many thanks the work is today the main note of the universal sex trafficking business was you tell me the scale of course because there are people who are criticizing if it is a first approach it is a first approach it is a chronicle of what they did Melisa and Humberto ask us if after work, well, we'll see, we'll see if we don't go back to some other place, but well, what we wanted and that was the journalistic objective was to say, it can't be that there is a medical place an hour and a half from the city. an hour and a half from Mexico City where we simply cannot enter, let's not follow each other, many journalists have entered, we ourselves have entered Tenancingo, but today in 2019 2020 we cannot go and do at least one chronicle is to be the objective, the chronicle is published in 'el universal' today the chronicle has been broadcast in this program and well let's see if we do more work on that topic no I'm sure leaving this alone tenancingo topic what happens there in this work on our part you said I'm not sure that if instead of making the presentation of the work here we had made a link as we mentioned at some point we would have come out well.

They are extremely distrustful people who are like the rest of the country ravaged by crime who have a stigma they call themselves subjects of discrimination but at the same time that town did nothing for decades to ensure that its place, its small nation, that its municipality was not a place of slavery, finally, thank you very much for the opportunity to come to present here the work that is part of the research unit of universal universal journalism which is a unit with a new team and we want to do this type of work we address the type of issues in depth you are satisfied with the work yes yes and totallyand with the desire to continue discovering trafficking outside of Tlaxcala also perhaps that pleasure, what a pleasure to meet you and happiness and health, a lot of information was left out too but you can follow him, not a member, of course, continue with more information in the next few days and well yes It is possible to enter a journalistic job with limitations with a low profile in Tenancingo.

I am not sure what jobs there may be in other parts of the country, but now in the middle of Mexico City this record remains, the work of value in the morning of that nasal shadow the work of that mix and humberto padgett what a pleasure melissa thank you thank you and we continue with this hour it is in the next few days we will pause and return because there is a lot