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Some say there's a universal law of threes, eg. plane crashes, comedic set-up lines, etc. In any case, here's the third story posted on the web this week about prostitution. Not in Peru or Brasil. This time in Tenancingo, a small central Mexican town, where families exploit hundreds of young women to force them into prostitution and have for at least three generations.
AP: "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.
Added to that, says anthropologist Oscar Montiel — who has interviewed the pimps about their work — is a tradition of informal, sworn-to-silence male groups. He believes that, in the town of just over 10,000, there may be as many as 3,000 people directly involved the trade. Prosecutors say the network includes female relatives of the pimps, who often serve as go-betweens or supervisors, or who care for the children of women working as prostitutes."
