Through a statement, Interpol reported that after a police operation carried out in 32 countries between November 28 and December 2, 128 women and two men, victims of human trafficking, were rescued. After the operation, 268 arrests of those involved in these mafias were recorded.
128 women and two men victims of human trafficking, mostly from Venezuela and Colombia, were rescued during a police operation directed against specialized criminal networks in Latin America and the Caribbean, reported this December 14 Interpol.
Through a statement, the Lyon-based agency, Francio, indicated that the operation, called Turquoise IV, was carried out from November 28 to December 2 in 32 countries. In the balance, they detailed that they arrested 268 people suspected of being involved in the smuggling of migrants, human trafficking or related crimes, such as document falsification and sexual crimes.
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Interpol agents carried out checks at transit points such as airports, bus stations and border posts, where they identified a total of 9,015 irregular migrants. According to the investigations, many of the migrants were heading to North America and were intercepted in Central America.
This was the case in particular in Mexico with 2,400 migrants from the Americas (Venezuela, Cuba), Africa (Angola, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Ethiopia) and Asia (Bangladesh and Nepal). In Nicaragua, the police detected more than 2,000 migrants from Asia, Africa, Haiti and Ecuador who wanted to travel to the United States or Canada.
In Honduras, meanwhile, a 30-year-old woman suspected of being involved in the sexual exploitation of three minors was arrested. Operations were also carried out in Guatemala, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay and Brazil.
“Human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants are criminal industries that move billions of euros, finance the most dangerous organized crime groups in the world and violate the human rights of their victims,” said the Secretary General of Interpol. , Jürgen Stock, quoted in the statement.
“The stories we hear about the exploitation of migrants around the world in operations like Turquesa IV are heartbreaking,” the Interpol official added. The operation was funded by the Canadian Department of World Affairs.
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