For the last few months I have been really interested in the Mexican pimps called Padrotes. There are two school of thought in regards to the Padrotes. One sites like this, you'll hear that 90% of all Street Girls SGs have padrotes, and the guys will offer anecdotal evidence of a few guys living in Tijuana, say this is so, and maybe one girl told some monger that the SG next to them has a padrote. They also offer indirect evidence. They see an SG getting out of a car a few blocks away from the alley, and say the driver must be her Padrote. They will also say, how else do you explain a young girl traveling so far from home thousands of miles, where does she get the nerve or the money. They will also tell most young girls don't have that strong of work ethic to work 8 hours a day or more in rain or shine, that it has to be the padrote that forces her to work. ( I use to believe this too, but now I'm not so sure?)
The other school says almost the same thing, except this this group of professional writers, religious groups, and government sources with a hidden agenda of just really doing away with commercial prostitution between consenting adults, but instead talk only of forced trafficking and slavery .......they say, Tijuana isn't the ultimate destination like the guys on these boards do. They say, Tijuana is only a pit training stop, that the real destination is the United States. They say by the thousands that these young girls are forced to perform sex acts with Americans as forced sex slaves, or forced to have sex with other illegal immigrants on dirt floors, on in the bushes out in the fields, and there is no escape for these young women, only death, and thats why they continually need to be replaced!
I been reading a lot on the subject too and it seems like a lot of these stories came from articles like Peter Landesman's 'The Girls Next Door' New York Times article, where he gives away the so-called secrets of the Padrotes. You;ll find Landesman's work in many other article, and he even had John Ashcroft, quoting him. If that's not enough there will be a movie out this Summer, based on Landesman's NY Times article, the movie is called 'TRADE.'
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/m...d=3&ei=5007&en=43dbe6ef76e45af8&ex=1390366800
In the article Landesman writes about the 'Los Lenornes" a tightly organized association of pimps, from a place in southern mexico called Tenancingo, just south of Mexico city, and where 80% of all Mexican pimps come from. Guess what, I also see Tenacingo being named on prostitution boards, and I have a feeling some guys just read this article like thousands others have. The article goes on to say boys as young as 12 are giving a girl about their same age to rape and pimp out in order to learn the art of pimping, Later they travel the Via Lactea, or Milky Way road to Tijuana, picking up young girls as prospective lovers, from bus stations and other places, and trick them into being Street whores in Tijuana on their way to the US.
Well it turns out that many things the New York Times article said can't be proven, and maybe he just got carried away in the investigation. State Magazine, tore the article apart. I'll post of some of it said, and link the article.
"Landesman's supporting evidence is vague. Where it is not vague, it is anecdotal. Where it is anecdotal, it is often anonymous, too. And where it is not anecdotal or vague it is suspicious and slippery" I could say the same thing about what's written on prostitution boards.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2094414/
I now have a new hobby whenever I fuck an SG, I always spend some time asking her if she has a padrote, or what about her friends, do they have a padrote. Of course some guys are going to say I'm wasting my time because these girls are instructed so say they don't have a padrote. It may be true because no SG will admit she has a padrote, some do tell me that other girls have them. If fact the last SG I had, told me she did come to Tijuana with a Padrote, but she had to get rid of her, because he was taking all her money, she needed for her family. Others tell me, no way would she have a padrote, that she isn't that stupid. From my experience with pimps and hoes in the US. The hoes wouldn't be so secretive about their pimps, some even going so far as telling me what he does for her. In many cases, hoes get dumped by their pimp, or they wise up and leave him. What makes the relationship with a SG and Padrote so special? Another thing that bugs me, is in the states Pimps try to get more hoes in his stable, but yet these Padrotes seem to be satisfied with only one SG, and why does he bother with these $20 whores, when bargirls can make so much more money in a place like AB, where it's $60 dollars a fuck. If you ask any Mexican prostitute why she does what she does, almost all of them will tell you, they do it for their family, usually a little baby back home with her mother, but the problem with padrotes, is they want to keep all the money.
Don't get me wrong, I believe Tijuana does have Padrotes, and the SGs give him most of the money, but I just don't think 90% of all SG have padrotes. I believe if they have a man in their life, it could really be a real dead beat boyfriend, or husband she is supporting, or something in between, but I believe lot of SGs call their own shots.
Another well known story about Reina, that has been proven to have a few holes in it.
http://www.libertadlatina.org/US_Mexico_San_Diego_Reinas_Story_08072003.htm