`` Prayers For The Stolen `` By Jennifer Clement

“A third method used by traffickers is kidnapping. Those approached to work in the sex industry but who are unwilling to leave their country of origin may be kidnapped.” (Hodge)

Originating in the United States, ms-13 and similar gangs have had a devastating impact on central America. This article describes the origins from the United States and how through the Los Angeles Riots and other tough on crime policies had the effect of placing many immigrants and criminals back in their home country of central America. The deportees some of that might have been criminals and taken to the United States as children, united in desperation to become ms-13. The article further describes the brutality that the gangs have committed in the region. Through drug trade, smuggling and senseless murder, life in central America has been disturbed by gangs and have become a national security there. The dangers of gangs in central America

A Stolen Life by Jaycee Lee Dugard is an autobiography recounting the chilling memories that make up the author’s past. She abducted when she was eleven years old by a man named Phillip Garrido with the help of his wife Nancy. “I was kept in a backyard and not allowed to say my own name,” (Dugard ix). She began her life relatively normally. She had a wonderful loving mother, a beautiful baby sister,, and some really good friends at school. Her outlook on life was bright until June 10th, 1991, the day of her abduction. The story was published a little while after her liberation from the backyard nightmare. She attended multiple therapy sessions to help her cope before she had the courage to share her amazing story. For example she

For example, in the movie “SOLD” a young 12-year-old girl named Lakshmi was being trafficked from her home in Nepal to a prison whorehouse in India. She and other imprisoned children received help from an American photographer and an aid worker to evade their captors.

Certain neighborhoods in Central America are under the control of various gangs. The women and children are live in a constant state of panic. Women especially fear that they will be attacked. If anyone angers the gang or doesn't pay whatever said gang says that they have to pay to live there they or their children are under threat to be attacked.

In the second chapter of the book, the main character’s mother ranted off to herself about why the authority was behind it. She ranted off in questions then answered them herself, never giving anyone else the chance to answer, showing her frustration, and anger. It states, “a poppy or a gun? Good made the plants but man made the guns.”(pg. 13) Because in the novel and in Guerrero most of the people kidnapped were girls, her mother had to dress he daughter up as a boy and fake her daughter’s gender to keep her safe, showing the frustration and anger that the situations makes the mother fret about her safety. Also, the mother shows her hatred towards the government for these attacks because when she is ranting about them in the second chapter, she says, “of course, “guaranteed,” and “damn” (pg. 13) as she lists all those in authority who is behind the attacks, showing just how frustrated she is with her country, demonstrating the authors concern for her country considering the attacks in 2014. To conclude, the author shows her concern for Guerrero, Mexico by using the elements of voice to demonstrate the problems and attacks of

It is sad but today people are being bought, sold, and smuggled like modern-day slavery plus it's happening not only in third world countries, but also in the United States. In the U.S Constitution the 13th Amendment states,“‘Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction”’ (A+E Networks,2015), which means the 13th amendment made slavery and involuntary servitude illegal everywhere in the United States. Human Trafficking can be limited by parental awareness to educate their own children to be safe. Human Trafficking also be limited by the government having stricter country and international

A kidnaper knows that they can sell a bag of drugs only once, but they can prostitute a young woman many times a day. Many families in Mexico are taking extreme measures and have the woman hide in secret shelters and homes when they hear traffickers doing a raid, which is when a trafficker snatch women in the town. Women in these targeted towns feel like the best thing you can

Asian girls are especially vulnerable to trafficking due to their traditional Asian cultural and social values. There is a need to obey parents and support the family. Too, females and children are often viewed as lower than men and in some cases are viewed as property to be sold or bargained with. These traditional cultural values create situations where females are susceptible to trafficking. Given these values and poverty mean that girls and their families may be easily deceived into accepting gainful employment with the assumption that they will be able to earn enough money to support their families.

Male victims exist in every country. For example, Cambodian men and boys have been “deceived onto long-haul fishing boats . . . out to sea for up to two years or more in virtual prisons on which the trafficking victims endure inhuman working conditions, and physical abuse.” Further, while “everyone knows that Afghanistan is one of the world’s worst places to be female . . .fewer people realize that Afghanistan is one place in the world where boys are more likely to be trafficked than girls.

Those who sadly become part of globalization or capitalism for women are beaten and force into organization that seen them as pawns in game that will drugged them to alter their perception of reality. They would even force pregnant mothers into having births and then taking their children away as collateral damage in order to make them obey their rules or laws. Policemen will even turn a blind eye because they have mutual ties with the brothels owners and it is not that they do not believe the victim or female story but it is far more common in countries where women are more sexually conservative. Prior examples are Iran, Pakistan, and India. Human trafficking is a disease that cannot be describe in one article or video but throughout history, it is a term that challenges the foundations of compassion and

Immigrating to a new home in a new country or state can cause many obstacles to arise while beginning a new life in a safe home. Estevan and Esperanza are Guatemalan immigrants who are seeking refuge from gangs in their hometown who are trying to attain information from them. The gangs kidnapped their child and killed many of their close friends and family. Estevan tells Taylor, “Three members Had just been killed, including Esperanza’s brother, but seventeen were still alive. She and I knew every one of those seventeen, by name. Can you understand that this made us more useful alive than dead? For us to go after Ismene us what they wanted,” (Kingsolver, ch. 9). Estevan and Esperanza are faced with the choice to go after their daughter and risk all the lives of them and the people they know that the gangs want, or to leave and hide to save many lives. The violent gangs prove a

In the novel “Prayers for the Stolen”, it tells us how hard it is for the people of Guerrero, Mexico to leave in that area because the gang and the police are tied up together and there is no one to stop the illegal activities that are happening. What differ a gang and a police are one is out to get the other meaning the police should be stopping the gang not work with them, but that’s not always the case, is it? We don’t often see it, but a lot of illegal activities, in the United States. By reading this essay you can comparing and contrast illegal activities, in the United States and Guerrero, Mexico. Also how money or resources, education and personnel have an effect on illegal activities in both countries.

The drug dealers in the novel kidnapped young girls with force and they weren’t afraid of alerting the government. At the beginning of the novel, mothers had to make their daughters become ugly, so they wouldn’t be kidnapped. They even had to dig holes to hide their daughters. Who would steal their daughters from them? The drug dealer would. These outlaws would run into other people’s houses with guns in their hands and kidnap young and beautiful girls whenever they wanted, then sold them like packages to other big cities or other countries. Shooting and killing seemed normal to them. A dead body was dropped near the Ladydi’s house to warn that they were coming to get Paula. With their guns around, they even shot Ladydi’s house, just to scare her mother and force her to tell where her daughter was. They were willing to take down army helicopters if those helicopters got near to their poppy fields.

Girls are abused and beaten regularly, and the government condones these actions as if they are not occurring. Currently, however, more and more respected organizations are helping with the fight against human trafficking, although the problem still heavily influences the country.