the criminals, their victims and the attorneys and advocates fighting against trafficking:
A series on the regenerative power of a cantina-based trafficking ring run by a man nicknamed "El Gallo" - the rooster.
2008 El Gallo got away...
2011 update: 2011 update on the ring's activities
2012 story about the Cantina crooner - the ex-husband of a trafficker tied to the same group: Cantina Crooner
Details of the largest trafficking rescue in the mainland US - in Houston: the Mondragon case
Mondragon rescue
Why some trafficking victims - including those rescued in the largest bust in the mainland U.S. - never got T visas created by the government to help them... The trouble with T-visas
That work is included in this 2012 book: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409439684
A 2012 interview with the State Department's trafficking czar - Luis CdeVaca:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/U-S-ambassador-fights-slavery-sex-trafficking-3987156.php
How a Harris county attorney who used nuisance laws to fight trafficking businesses was brutally attacked in an assault that remains unsolved.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Was-attack-on-assistant-Harris-County-attorney-3498895.php
How federal prosecutors are using forfeiture laws to try to help trafficking victims:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Teenage-victims-of-sex-traffickers-will-get-money-3489677.php
Innovative ways local lawyers have used their skills and civil lawsuits to fight human slavery and the international groups behind it:
http://www.chron.com//news/houston-texas/article/Attorney-helping-human-trafficking-victims-find-1688854.php
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Vietnamese-workers-allege-homeland-exploited-them-1691276.php
http://www.chron.com/business/article/Lawsuit-alleges-India-workers-lured-to-U-S-on-1686876.php
