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Mark Bassant

Mark Bassant is presently the Lead Editor of the Investigative Desk at Guardian Media Limited. He has over 25 years of experience in journalism and attended Ryerson University in Toronto. He worked at the Toronto Star for a year while attending Ryerson and later completed an internship at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation(CBC). Mark has copped at least seven awards for investigative journalism in television in the region through the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation(CBC) between 2012 and 2017. He has exposed white-collar crime, corruption as well as human and drug trafficking networks in Trinidad and Tobago and at times across the region. In his spare time, he enjoys watching football and playing FIFA on PlayStation. His goal is to integrate the region through collaborative investigative journalism.

Human Trafficking

Desperate Venezuelan Women Flee Their Nation

An Attempt to Escape Grinding Poverty Leads to Human Traffickers and Sex Slavery

By
Nazima Raghubir,
Alva Solomon and
Mark Bassant
| June 3, 2020

The Venezuelan crisis has scattered five million of the country’s people across the globe.

Like other places in Venezuela, the economy of Tucupita, a small swampy town in the Orinoco Delta had collapsed, causing thousands of residents to flee.

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Human Trafficking

Sex Trafficking in Plain Sight

By
Mark Bassant
| December 5, 2019

How The Refugee Crisis In Venezuela Has Led To Lucrative Sex Trafficking Rings By Criminal Networks, Including Corrupt Businessmen, Police and Immigration Authorities.

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