MEXICO CITY, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Mexican authorities dismantled a suspected network of cross-border women trafficking in a resort city, the Attorney General's office said on Saturday.
The possible international human trafficking network supplies prostitution via the Internet in Los Cabos, a municipality at the southern tip of Baja California peninsula, the office said in a statement.
Authorities arrested seven suspected members of the network and rescued 16 women during separate operations in Cabo San Lucas, a resort city in the Los Cabos metropolitan area, said the statement.
In the first operation on Thursday, authorities rescued seven foreign women, busted the network and arrested five suspected members. In the second operation, authorities rescued nine women and arrested the other two suspects, according to the statement.
Mexico was considered one of the countries with the highest incidence of human trafficking in 2017.
According to the Mexican government, human trafficking is the second most profitable criminal activity in the country, only second to drug trafficking.
