Two Cuban women rescued from sexual exploitation in Mexico.

Two Cuban women who were being subjected to sexual exploitation in Quintana Roo, Mexico, were rescued in a joint operation by the State Attorney General's Office and the National Guard.

The Cuban women were part of a group of 29 women who were forced to work in a bar, where they provided sexual services for a price ranging between 5,000 and 10,000 pesos, and also offered erotic dances.

It was 10 Mexican women and 19 foreigners: nine from Colombia, six from Venezuela, one from Peru, one from Norway, and the two Cubans. Out of the 19, seven were handed over to the National Institute of Migration (INM) to be repatriated.

The 29 were captured through a global human trafficking network, and those who recruited and transported them had contacts in other countries.

The modus operandi of the traffickers was to befriend the victims, subsequently they would win their affection and convince them to travel to Playa del Carmen, where supposedly they would arrange for their documents; however, upon arriving at the bar, they would retain their passports and force them to meet a quota of sexual services, under threat that if they did not meet it, their families would be harmed," detailed the FGE in a statement.

"Women were constantly subjected to physical and psychological abuse," he added.

Authorities arrested a man identified as Julio Alejandro "N," originally from the state of Chihuahua, where he was wanted for a crime of sexual abuse.