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Tourists walk with local women in the historic center of Cartagena, February 22, 2024.
Sexual exploitation

Life is hell for the poor in Cartagena, where sexual exploitation starts in childhood

Colombia’s capital of tourism has instituted a plan against sex work and trafficking in central neighborhoods geared towards “reestablishing public order”, but it fails to address the issue’s most basic causes. Many vulnerable families allow and even promote the sale of their children’s bodies. ‘To the police, we are nothing,’ says one woman

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