[3] Guatemala City alone has 9 red-light districts,[4] including La Linea, El Trebol and Parque Concordia.
[5] Statistics from the Vigilancia Centinela de las Infecciones de Transmisión Sexual (VICITS) sexual health clinics from 2007 to 2011, showed 10.8 of the sex workers worked on the streets, the rest working indoors at strip clubs, brothels based at residential homes, bars etc.
Many women and children are brought into the country from El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras by organized rings that force them into prostitution.
[12] The MuJER also provide outreach services to the women in La Linea and the other red-light districts of Guatemala City.
[16] Director Chema Rodríguez made a documentary film, Estrellas de La Línea, about the All Stars in 2006.
[17] Following national and local awareness campaigns, education on sexual health and condom distribution, the HIV prevalence rate amongst sex workers dropped to 1.6% in 2016.
[7] Children from poor families fall victims to trafficking for purposes of prostitution through advertisements for lucrative foreign jobs or through personal recruitment.
Women and children from other Latin American countries and the United States are exploited in sex trafficking in Guatemala.
Government studies of past cases suggest women recruited victims while men ran criminal organizations.