Activist: Kidnapping, killings of call center workers in Mexico has been happening for years

A missing-persons activist says call center workers have been going missing in Mexico since at least 2017

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press
June 7, 2023, 3:49 PM


MEXICO CITY -- A missing-persons activist in western Mexico said Wednesday that call center workers have been going missing in Mexico since at least 2017, and that authorities have done little to solve the cases.

Activist Hector Flores says authorities’ failure to investigate those disappearances helped set the stage for what authorities believe was a mass kidnap-killing of eight young call center employees last month.

The violent Jalisco cartel operates call centers in the western state of the same name; the centers target Americans in timeshare frauds. The cartel is suspected of killing people who try to quit working at these call centers.

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A U.S. official confirmed that authorities suspect that the eight workers kidnapped in mid-May — and whose bodies were identified Tuesday — had been working at cartel-run call center, that they were targeted when they tried to leave the jobs and that similar slayings may have happened previously. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

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