"'I have to believe this can change.' So says social worker Marisa Ugarte. She speaks quietly of three boys living in a Mexico shelter, one 12 years old, the other two no more than 15. All had been shuttled between Tijuana and San Diego, California, and prostituted to pedophiles. Ugarte directs the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, a network of 62 U.S. and Mexican organizations fighting trafficking. 'People are beginning to see,' Ugarte says, 'that slavery is still real.'"
—From "21st Century Slaves," September 2003, National Geographic magazine
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