But if there is a hub, a clearing house for the complex, cynical and murderous business of trafficking migrants, then it is a place where the state is defunct and society disenchanted, where the border guards are biddable for $400, where the beaches are broad and where the sea lapping the shore stretches north to another far more promising coastline.
The organisation has used theatre groups and comic books to try to change attitudes by educating adults and children about the realities of people trafficking.
"That the execution of those trafficking in drugs is contrary to international law is strongly arguable.
"We know it is cruel," says a fuel smuggler who admits to ignoringthe people trafficking.
You don't need anything.'" Dávalos said people trafficking in Peru – which tends to involve a disproportionate number of indigenous girls and women – is concentrated in the south of the country in such areas as Cusco and Madre de Dios, which is home to thousands of illegal gold mines.
The IOM also worked with the regional government to develop a plan for combating people trafficking.
The programme allowed us to detect potential victims of human trafficking because you can't just roll up in a truck that has 'Fighting People Trafficking' on the side.
Parosha Chandran, a human rights barrister and UN expert on trafficking, described the bill as "a red herring".
Despite the battery of laws designed to prosecute traffickers, there are more victims of trafficking than traffickers in prison for so-called immigration offences.
"It is positive in the sense that it is an entirely new initiative, but is it going to do anything?" The modern slavery bill brings together current offences on trafficking and slavery, introduces tougher sentences for traffickers, and creates an independent anti-slavery commissioner, likely to be a former police officer.
And anti-trafficking laws supposed to protect the victims of trafficking are used to deport them.
