Mexico City.- The Prosecutor's Office of the Mexican state of Guanajuato (center) reported this Friday the rescue of some 700 victims of labor exploitation on a ranch in the municipality of Dolores Hidalgo, a case that is being investigated as human trafficking.
In a statement, the local Prosecutor's Office detailed that after conducting a search of an agricultural ranch, "approximately 700 people were located, many of them in vulnerable conditions."
She pointed out that the victims are from the southern states of Guerrero, Chiapas, Oaxaca and Veracruz, who have already received the corresponding medical, psychological and support care.
The case is being investigated as human trafficking for labor exploitation purposes, the agency specified.
"During the intervention, narcotics were found on a person, so a new investigation file was initiated," he pointed out.
The action was the result of an inter-institutional operation, in coordination with the National Guard, the Guanajuato Security Forces, the Municipal Police and local emergency services and human rights protection.
In 2024, the Government of Mexico registered 615 victims of the crime of human trafficking, according to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP): However, NGOs have warned of the lack of information to assess the scale of the problem.
In Mexico, there are more than 130,000 missing and not located persons, according to figures from the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons (RNPDNO), which counts disappearances since the 1950s.
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