When Claudia Carrero was 13, she was promised an education and a chance to travel the world working in hospitality. Instead, she was delivered into what she now describes as a life of modern slavery under Opus Dei, a conservative Catholic organisation with deep roots across Latin America. Now aged 58, Carrero is among 43 women who have filed a historic lawsuit accusing Opus Dei of exploitation, trafficking, and systemic abuse that spanned decades.
Their harrowing testimonies expose what they claim is a decades-long pattern of coercion, unpaid labour, isolation and religious manipulation—all hidden behind the façade of spiritual vocation.
