Cab companies run by women provide safe rides in a country with one of the worst rates of sexual violence in Latin America

The first hint that something was wrong came when Jacqueline Diaz received a call at work from a friend. “You need to come here, to my shop, now. It’s urgent,” she was told. Diaz rushed to her friend’s shop in La Paz, Bolivia, where she found her daughter, Michelle, who was 12 at the time, crying and in shock.

That morning, on her way to school, a van had pulled up, the door opened and two men pulled her inside before speeding off.