By KATE BRUMBACK and MARK STEVENSON
The Associated Press
Monday, August 9, 2010; 12:01 AM
TENANCINGO, Mexico -- In this impoverished town in central Mexico, a sinister trade has taken root: entire extended families exploit desperation and lure hundreds of unsuspecting young Mexican women to the United States to force them into prostitution.
Those who know the pimps of Tlaxcala state - victims, prosecutors, social workers and researchers - say the men from Tenancingo have honed their methods over at least three generations.
They play on all that is good in their victims - love of family, love of husband, love of children - to force young women into near-bondage in the United States.
The town provided the perfect petri dish for forced prostitution. A heavily Indian area, it combines long-standing traditions of forced marriage or "bride kidnapping," with machismo, grinding poverty and an early wave of industrialization in the 1890s that later went bust, leaving a displaced population that would roam, looking for elusive work.
For full article go to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/08/AR2010080801654.html
The Associated Press
Monday, August 9, 2010; 12:01 AM
TENANCINGO, Mexico -- In this impoverished town in central Mexico, a sinister trade has taken root: entire extended families exploit desperation and lure hundreds of unsuspecting young Mexican women to the United States to force them into prostitution.
Those who know the pimps of Tlaxcala state - victims, prosecutors, social workers and researchers - say the men from Tenancingo have honed their methods over at least three generations.
They play on all that is good in their victims - love of family, love of husband, love of children - to force young women into near-bondage in the United States.
The town provided the perfect petri dish for forced prostitution. A heavily Indian area, it combines long-standing traditions of forced marriage or "bride kidnapping," with machismo, grinding poverty and an early wave of industrialization in the 1890s that later went bust, leaving a displaced population that would roam, looking for elusive work.
For full article go to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/08/AR2010080801654.html
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