“Eight out of ten Central American women who migrate to the United States are raped en route, according to an investigation by the cable channel Fusion. Before they set off, they equip themselves with contraceptives. When you move countries, your greatest-sometimes only-asset is your body, which also becomes your greatest vulnerability. Sex becomes currency, to be exchanged for protection from the smugglers, the coyotes, or the police. The arrangement is called cuerpomatic-after the Central American credit-card processor Credomatic-because it involves using your body, cuerpo, as currency.”
From the book “This is Our Land” by Suketu Mehta
At least now I have an idea of all this “Rape as currency” talk in my head over and fucking over again. Hell.