Overview

• A Mendoza woman was enticed to Lima in 2024 by a Venezuelan man posing as a social media contact.
• She survived more than a year of enforced prostitution in Lima before alerting her mother through a disrupted videoconference.
• Argentine and Peruvian authorities carried out a coordinated raid under Article 27 of the Palermo Protocol to free her.
• The Venezuelan suspect was arrested at the scene and is believed to have exploited other women.
• Officials have placed the victim under protective custody and opened a wider probe into the trafficking network.