The newspaper O Tempo reported that the operation was carried out last Friday, but was only disclosed this Monday after the superintendence of the law enforcement agency in the Brazilian state of Acre (northwest) received information about the crime.

The PF quickly activated the International Police (Interpol) in Cobija, Bolivia, and agents from the neighboring country quickly found and rescued the women.

The victims were brought to Brazil with the assistance of PF officers and, after an act, were taken in.

O Tempo reported this Sunday Bolivian police officers arrested three men accused of being involved in the crime.

The local press denounces that, far away from the most touristic places of the neighboring country, Brazilian women of scarce resources arrive in areas bordering Bolivia under false promises.

In those territories they are promised that they will be able to work in eastern Bolivia, but once in the Andean highlands they are sexually exploited.

A research of the Brazilian Ministry of Justice reveals that 70 percent of the Brazilian women who suffer trafficking and smuggling to other countries are victims of the sex trade.

Bolivia appears as a ‘permanent route’ for the perpetration of this scourge.

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