![]() "There was nowhere in our village to hide," explains Lupita. Then we heard it had happened in other villages." The men who visited the villages worked for the local drug cartels, snatching girls to be trafficked for sex. The girl's name was Ruth, Lupita tells me. They took her and she was still holding her doll under her arm when they lifted her into the van like a bag of apples. They wanted to know where the pretty one was, the girl with freckles. ![]() "When they got out of the van all we could see were the machine guns in their hands. Lupita was 20 when five men drove into the small community near Dos Bocas, outside the port of Veracruz. She can still remember the first time she saw a girl taken from her home village. L upita is in her 30s and works as a laundry maid in several houses in Mexico City.
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