{"id":184550,"date":"2021-03-01T11:31:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=184550"},"modified":"2021-03-01T11:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T16:31:24","slug":"mexicos-lockdowns-fuel-rise-in-drug-trafficking-forced-prostitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexicos-lockdowns-fuel-rise-in-drug-trafficking-forced-prostitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s lockdowns fuel rise in drug-trafficking, forced prostitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmexicos-lockdowns-fuel-rise-in-drug-trafficking-forced-prostitution%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=184550&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2380082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2380082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A health worker is escorted by soldiers as she arrives to the Sports Center with a cooler containing doses of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (AP Photo\/Marco Ugarte)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 8:07 AM PT \u2013 Monday, March 1, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Human rights groups have warned thousands of Mexicans are turning to the sex industry due to economic desolation caused by COVID-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of hunger and necessity, and not having any savings or income to eat or pay rent, all that pushed me back after 10 years to return to work as a sex worker,\u201d stated an unidentified Mexican national.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-coronavirus-pandemic-latin-america-poverty-mexico-city-59f3150c0ffd120b345a52fd22bacf37\">reports<\/a>, the Mexican economy has experienced a rise in unemployment and poverty, in turn, forcing thousands of men and women into sex work.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights activists have stressed that economic lockdowns violate people\u2019s right to work and provide for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the new ones, which are the other 40 percent, they would cry because they would say, \u2018I don\u2019t want to do this but I must bring food for my children,&#8217;\u201d explained Elvira Madrid, director of Brigada Callejera (Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women). \u201cThe other 20 percent that shocked us even more were housewives.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are going to see a tremendous increase in drug trafficking, we are going to see an increase in human trafficking, and we are going to see these people caught and released into our communities here in the United States.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rLB4VMbSQk\">https:\/\/t.co\/rLB4VMbSQk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Bill Hagerty (@SenatorHagerty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorHagerty\/status\/1364972541048205312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to economists, coronavirus lockdowns in Mexico gave a boost to illegal businesses such as drugs and human trafficking while legal sources of income were shut down for many citizens.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/citizens-rally-against-covid-19-lockdowns-in-the-netherlands\/\">Citizens rally against COVID-19 lockdowns in the Netherlands<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A health worker is escorted by soldiers as she arrives to the Sports Center with a cooler containing doses of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V in the Xochimilco borough &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274455,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}