Reports from the Ministry of the Interior of Peru indicated that the police of that country rescued 221 Peruvians, 100 Ecuadorians, 14 Colombians, three Bolivians, one Dominican and one Argentine from mafias dedicated to human trafficking. He indicated that the highest incidence of this crime occurs in Lima, although he reported that similar cases have also been registered in the south of the nation.
Some 589 Venezuelan women, between adults and minors, victims of networks dedicated to human trafficking have been rescued in Peru this year. This was confirmed by the police of that country on Wednesday, October 5.
General Ulises Guillén, head of the Police Directorate against Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling, told Associated Press that from January to the beginning of October, police operations have found more Venezuelan women than Peruvian women victims of this crime.
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28 of the 589 Venezuelans were minors. The police also rescued 221 Peruvians, 100 Ecuadorians, 14 Colombians, three Bolivians, one Dominican and one Argentine.
The Peruvian Ministry of the Interior said through a statement that the highest incidence of this crime occurs in Lima, although it reported that similar cases have also been registered in the south of the nation, where illegal gold mining has spread, as in the regions of Madre de Dios and Puno, close to Bolivia, and in Cusco and Arequipa.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported in April that Venezuelans in Peru constitute almost 3.5% of the total population of some 33 million inhabitants and that Lima is the city in the world with the largest number of Venezuelans. displaced.
The UNHCR representative in Peru, Federico Agusti, then argued that “if Lima were in Venezuela it would be the third city in Venezuela with the largest number of Venezuelans.”.
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