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Tuesday, October 8
Migrants pay drug traffickers up to $ 15,000 to let them pass through Mexico
Organized crime has taken advantage of the migration crisis in Mexico to get a juicy business that is around $ 3, 000 at $ 5, 000 millions of dollars annually , according to experts in migration and drug trafficking.
The tragedy of December 9 in the state of Chiapas, on the southern border with Guatemala , where 56 immigrants died from the overturning of a truck in which they were traveling crowded, has highlighted the dimension “of human trafficking at the hands of organized crime, a problem to which no attention has been paid,” Gabriela de la Paz, an academic from the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, explained to Efe this Wednesday.
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Little is known about the groups that profit from migratory waves “but there are clues” that indicate that it is a whole machinery with a large capacity of operation throughout the Mexican territory and Central American countries, said Samantha Pérez, an expert in organized crime and drug policy.
Within these “keys” is the shadow of the large drug cartels , who have already primed migrants in massacres such as that of last January in the northern state of Tamaulipas, where they were found 22 charred bodies, mostly people from Guatemala.
Cartels like Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel have already been under the scrutiny of the Mexican Federal Prosecutor’s Office in recent years for the kidnapping and murder of migrants in the Mexican northeast and the news about the release of Central Americans in organized crime safe houses are more common every day.
“Migrants used to pay a fee to the coyote (person dedicated to crossing to people), now that money represents a right to cross through a controlled territory, ”Pérez told Efe.
In 2012 the average cost to cross did not exceed $ 3, 000 dollars, but the price has skyrocketed to amounts that exceed $ 15, 000 Dollars.
The most conservative estimates indi can that around 30, 000 monthly people try to cross Mexico to reach the United States with which criminal groups move a business of up to $ 5, 000 millions of dollars.
The exponential increase in rates for immigrants is due in part to the Mexican military presence on the border, that forces to search for new routes , in addition to the strengthening of criminal groups in the last decade.
EFE
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