Juarez Chih., Mexico - Today is: December 10, 2006
proliferate in Mexico
havens for pedophiles
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December 2006 Updated: 3:46:28 AM when
Juarez Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Acapulco, Cuernavaca and Monterrey are added to the trading centers children: study
• 20,000 sexually exploit children in 21 cities, occupying the fifth country in Latin America
Genaro Villamil
Process Cancun on Avenida Tulum, Peter is approaching a red Jeep with license plates from Mexico City, led by two young wealthy. It's four in the morning. Four other children under 18 watch the scene and commented: "and the boost will come." They also flirt with customers at night. Peter, who is 10 years old, is the only one up.
Hours later, Peter will be placed in this corner.
These uprisings are just the most visible part of a phenomenon that pervades Mexican Caribbean beaches. Others prefer to look for the sex work of children in one of the cafes of Avenida Tulum, by taxi drivers that connect to "agencies massage" where you can find lower, or with some of the exclusive travel agents for 7 thousand or $ 10,000 offer on the trip all paid the "erotic services" of infants.
Pedro is one of the 3 000 children who are caught in the nets of child sexual exploitation in Cancun, according to conservative estimates of NGOs. After Acapulco and Tijuana, this resort is known as one of the three sites in the country in terms of proliferation of such illegal business.
dimension of these networks in Cancun was uncovered following the scandal involving Jean Succar Kuri, a Lebanese-born businessman accused of rape and indecent assault, child pornography and corruption of minors. The allegations were originally documented by the civil association Protect me and reviewed by journalist Lydia Cacho in her book The Demons of Eden.
For most observers, this case is just the tip of the iceberg "of a complex plot involving the political power with economic power in pedophilia and child sexual exploitation.
The National Migration Institute (INM) estimates that this activity generates revenues by 10 billion dollars a year worldwide, while the United Nations Fund for the Protection of Children (UNICEF, for its acronym in English) estimated at U.S. $ 7 billion in dividends.
Although there is no accurate census on the number of children involved in these networks, the available data indicate that traffic is growing.
The first study, conducted in 2000 by researcher Elena Azaola, said that 11 000 infants are sexually exploited in 21 cities. Two years later, the figure rose to 16 000, according to DIF itself. Another 2006 study prepared by Erick Gómez Tagle Lopez, National Institute of Penal Sciences (Inacipe), estimated at 20 000 the number of minors engaged in sexual trafficking networks in Mexico, a figure that places the country in fifth place in Latin America in the incidence of child sexual exploitation.
In his book "The commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. A sociological approach, "Gomez Tagle Cancun confirmed that, along with Tijuana, Tapachula, Ciudad Juarez, Acapulco, Cuernavaca, Puerto Vallarta and the capital's Venustiano Carranza delegations and Cuauhtemoc are havens" for pedophiles and traffickers of minors for sex.
Other cities where the phenomenon has increased between 2005 and 2006 are Celaya, Monterrey, Mazatlan, Jalapa, Merida, Puebla and Tlaxcala southern area, according to the study of Gómez Tagle.
The former national director of DIF Ana Rosa Payan recognizes that federal and state authorities have been overwhelmed by the problem. The lack of "coordination, advocacy and budget from 32 government agencies that are part of the Committee on Sexual Exploitation and Child has prevented an effective combat this practice, says Payan.
Interviewed before concluding his assignment in the DIF, Payan believes that the main challenge is "to vices we win. " He warns, "The Internet is a very large and is difficult to combat with current legislation." Data
Casa Alianza estimated that between 40 and 60 percent of the profits derived from the Web sites of child pornography. And is that worldwide there are 4 million web pages devoted to pedophilia. Open 500 new daily.
The Directorate of Trafficking and Smuggling of the Federal Preventive Police have broken up just a little over 400 websites dedicated to this business. Casa Alianza claims that the 50 service providers access to the network in Mexico, only four offer software blockade.
Initiative in the "freezer"
Angélica de la Peña, federal deputy for the PRD in the last term, promoted reforms to the Federal Penal Code to punish more severely the crimes related to child abuse, in particular to eliminate concepts derogatory and discriminatory against children who are accused of prostitution or procuring consent.
The proposal of De la Peña provides for sanctions against service providers, taxi drivers, travel agencies and hotels, and even against bars where minors are employed in prostitution, and Internet sites dedicated to pornography.
However, The bill passed the House of Representatives was "frozen" in the Senate because in this legislative session scandal was uncovered Succar Kuri.
De la Peña, who is now a UNICEF consultant, insists that not only should be approved but the minute legislative reforms to promote constitutional fourth article in the states where they do not incorporate the human rights of children.
In Mexico, underscores De la Peña, child sex tourism broke out following the Asian tsunami struck in December, 2004 - countries like Thailand, considered by international agencies as a major haven for pedophiles.
There, about 800 thousand children are engaged in the so-called "sex tourism", according to official figures of those agencies. After the tsunami, this business came to Mexico and Brazil, "said De la Peña.
The former lawmaker says that besides the identified networks of child sexual prostitution, "there is another invisible part of the phenomenon in which no pay involved, but where are striking exploitation, abuse, mistreatment and rape. This phase involves several actors, nearly 90 percent are people close to the children. " Add
invisible networks that make up these teachers, doctors, Boy Scout leaders, ministers of religion, neighbors and relatives.
"Victims" points "do not receive pay through, are violated. Is a farm where a girl or boy has to flee. The vast majority of homeless children have fled because they have been abused sexually. "
The UNICEF Special Rapporteur, Norbert Liwski, who recently visited Mexico, says that among the 78 recommendations submitted to the federal government on the rights of boys and girls emphasized the need "to establish as criminal exploitation, trafficking and abduction of children, and implementing appropriate programs to assist and reintegrate children who have been victims of exploitation. "
addition, the report of the UNICEF Child Rights is recommended to increase the capacity of DIF and the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (COMAR) to also protect migrant children, especially those of Central America, who are easy prey for sexual exploitation networks, especially as they pass through Tapachula and Cancun.
In particular, UNICEF calls on the Mexican government to "bring to justice the perpetrators" of crimes of exploitation, trafficking and abduction of children and to take "stronger measures, multisectoral and multidisciplinary approaches" to prevent and combat trafficking and sexual exploitation of children and teenagers. A trial slow
Angélica de la Peña
considers it an urgent task to comply with the recommendations of UNICEF and points out that cases like that of Jean Succar must be treated thoroughly, as it is for many in the country.
And abounds: "We must speak the truth and send clear messages, mainly men, to rethink their sexual practices, so they know that if they buy sex with a teenager or a child committed a felony, which violate a boy or a girl under 18 is just as serious. "
UNICEF's consultant did not explain why the trial is being delayed Succar Kuri, although he confessed his crimes. It is paradoxical that as pressure to legislate and punish those who commit crimes of pedophilia, child pornography and sexual exploitation, lack of progress in the case of Lebanese-born pederast. "Every time you meet new evidence of corruption and collusion of the authorities of Quintana Roo on this character," says De la Peña.
Xavier Olea, attorney for the minors and journalist Lydia Cacho, warns that " Succar defense is betting corruption. " Just this past November 14, for example, Succar Kuri was transferred from the municipal jail in Cancun at maximum security prison of La Palma, now called the Altiplano, due to releases confirming the possibility of a leak and the alleged corruption exercised by Succar's lawyer, Wenceslao Cisneros, also defending drug dealers and that, as Olea, "has contacts with the mafia." Red Lights
pedophile havens
• • • • Cancun
Tijuana
• • • • Tapachula
Juarez
••Acapulco
••Cuernavaca
••Puerto Vallarta
••Las delegaciones capitalinas Venustiano Carranza y Cuauhtémoc
Fenómeno creciente en:
••Celaya
••Monterrey
••Mazatlán
••Jalapa
••Mérida
••Puebla
••Tlaxcala
Fuente: Libro ‘La explotación sexual comercial de niñas, niños y adolescentes. Una aproximación sociológica’ de Érick Gómez Tagle López
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