They rescue 42 indigenous people held against their will in an agricultural field of Los Mochis

This Friday, 42 indigenous people from Guadalupe y Calvo, Chihuahua, were rescued from an agricultural field in Los Mochis a place where they had been promised decent work but found the opposite.

This is a case of possible human trafficking and violation of human rights of victims of forced displacement.

Several people were held in this camp against their will, they lived in overcrowded conditions, without a kitchen and to feed themselves, and they had to pay 100 pesos a day for processed food, so subtracting this they only had 40 pesos a day.

The head of SEBIDES, María Inés Pérez Corral, reported that on Friday, January 20, a liaison from UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, contacted her in order to alert her to the case.

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Once the state official contacted one of those affected, the young man told her about the ordeal that he and his colleagues had experienced when they arrived at Ahome with the intention of working where the only thing they had received was ill-treatment.

She told him that they had moved from Guadalupe y Calvo, Chihuahua, and that they had been offered to work in Los Mochis with the promise of decent conditions.

However, they did not receive what was promised, on the contrary, they separated some parents from their children and took others to work in Jalisco.

Complaint

Pérez Corral personally accompanied the young man to file a complaint with the North Zone Deputy Prosecutor’s Office, from where an operation was ordered to rescue them all.

The 42 people have already withdrawn from the agricultural field and are in a shelter of the State Attorney General’s Office.

There are 16 women and 26 men in the shelter, whose human rights will continue to be respected.

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