Puerto Vallarta News

Puerto Vallarta News

Puerto Vallarta has a child prostitution and trafficking problem

Child prostitution and trafficking in Puerto Vallarta have risen to an international level, and it's a problem no one wants to talk about.

Faced with a problem rooted in the last two decades, the Government of Jalisco has established actions with the Secretariat of Public Security and Cybernetics, as well as with civil organizations to take on the problem.

The head of the Secretariat of the Social Assistance System, Alberto Esquer Gutiérrez, acknowledges that, according to the latest indicators at the national level, they show Puerto Vallarta with high levels of child prostitution . . .

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