Guatemalan authorities dismantled on Tuesday a migrant smuggling network to the United States made up of police officers. teleSUR
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00:00In Guatemala, authorities dismantled a criminal network on October 1st with police among its ranks,
00:05responsible for smuggling migrants to the United States.
00:08According to Interior Minister Francisco Jimenez, 36 people, including 23 active and two retired police officers,
00:14were arrested in the operation that involved 34 raids in the capital and other cities.
00:19Jimenez stated that the ring used police officers by bribing them to guarantee the passage of people.
00:25Likewise, it also resulted in the seizing of illicit funds, electronic devices, and firearms.
00:29Jimenez noted this operation was part of a strategy by President Bernardo Arevalo's government not to criminalize migrants,
00:36but to pursue and dismantle human trafficking structures.
00:45Again, the smuggled migrants from the municipality of Esquipulas,
00:49using private cars, and then used warehouses in Guatemala and Retalulio,
00:55and then used Pullman-type vehicles to transport the migrants to Ayutla,
01:00where other members of the structure received them in warehouses and then transported them to Mexico.
01:07It is estimated that approximately 10,000 migrants moved through the network,
01:13with hundreds of migrants of different nationalities documented.