Slavery Inc
The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking
Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade crisscrosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, willfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children. In this ground-breaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated journalist Lydia Cacho follows the trail of the traffickers and their victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to the UK, to expose the trade's hidden links with the tourist industry, internet pornography, drugs and arms smuggling, the selling of body organs, money laundering, and even terrorism.
This is an underground economy in which a sex slave can be bought for the price of a gun, but Cacho's powerful first-person interviews with mafiosi, pimps, prostitutes, and those who managed to escape from captivity makes it impossible to ignore the terrible human cost of this lucrative exchange.
Shocking and sobering, Slavery Inc, is an exceptional book, both for the colossal scope of its enquiry, and for the tenacious bravery with which Cacho pursues the truth.
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Original Language
SPANISH (World) | Debolsillo/PRH
Translation Rights
BAHASA INDONESIA | Marjin Kiri
ENGLISH (US) | Soft Skull Press/PRH
ENGLISH (UK) | Granta Books
DUTCH | Uitgeverij Contact
FRENCH | Nouveau Monde Éditions
GERMAN | Fischer Verlag
ITALIAN | Fandango
POLISH | MUZA
PORTUGUESE (Portugal) | Elsinore/PRH
SWEDISH | Natur & Kultur
Film Rights
Audiovisual rights sold. Producer to be announced.
Reviews
“Lydia Cacho is a symbol of brave journalism. In this book, Lydia goes beyond the borders of Mexico. Disguised in various costumes, she travels from the underworld of La Merced in Mexico to the nightclubs and brothels of Japan, passing through many other knots in the vast web of mobsters, businessmen, police officers, judges, and politicians who run the business worldwide. Lydia listens, so the voices of the victims, the broken lives, can be heard, and she accuses those who exercise the most abject form of ownership: men who own women, adults who own children. These super machos, by humiliating the weakest, manifest their despicable power.” Eduardo Galeano, author of Open Veins of Latin America
“[Cacho] conducts important primary research that could be of significant use to policymakers engaged in combating an international scourge. She extracts chilling details from victims about how traffickers control them by confiscating travel documents — essentially trapping them in foreign lands. And she explains with clarity and great compassion how children sold into sex slavery can become outcasts, unable to ever return to their communities.” The Washington Post
"Lionhearted Mexican journalist and activist Cacho probes prostitution, pedophilia, and sex trafficking rings across Southeast Asia, South America, and beyond" Publisher's Weekly
