LibertadLatina commentary:

We, the 80 million Native peoples of the Americas have, since the European con-quest 500 years ago, never had the right to govern ourselves.  Democracy has not existed, and in most countries Native people are seen as a justifiably exploitable group of inferior second class citizens.  The impunity that Native women face across the region is at the heart of much of today's crisis of mass sexual exploitation & slavery.

In Mayan Guatemala, for example, there had never been even one decade, between 1522 and 1992, without a massacre. 

Over 50,000 mostly Mayan women were murdered (out of a total of 200,000 such victims), and most Mayan girls were raped, by government forces in Guatemala during the 1970's and 1980s 'civil' war, with U.S. military support.

I personally know victims of this genocide, and I worked actively to stop it during the 1970's and 1980's.

The wife of one of the perpetrators (who now traffics in women and underage girls from Guatemala to the U.S.), told me that her husband, a former member of the presidential guard [which doubled as a death squad], said to her: "Me daba lastima tener que malograr a las mujers" (I felt bad to have to damage the women [that is, kidnap, rape, torture and murder them by the hundreds]).  

(This murder's grandfather, a white [Ladino] land-owner, would go out and 'shoot a few Mayans' in the village at the edge of his ranch lands whenever he got mad and wanted to let off some steam.  Such is the power of impunity in racist Guatemala.)

Unlike the cases of mass-rape and murder in Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda, no World Court ever took action in this case, and nobody ever went to jail, as if these Native lives were explicitly less human and thus not deserving of justice.

Guatemala's population is 60% Mayan.