Police have arrested 95 suspects in an INTERPOL-coordinated crackdown targeting the distribution of child sexual abuse material through online messaging groups. Law enforcement agencies from 17 countries across Latin America and Europe took part in the joint operation, dubbed International Effort Confluencia. The action included four separate enforcement operations between March 2026 and September 2026. Investigators carried out 127 search warrants as part of the probe and rescued a five-year-old victim whose parent had been producing and selling abuse material online. In Ecuador, authorities found one person allegedly sharing CSAM who had about 15GB of abuse images and more than 4,000 files. In Panama, police arrested a group administrator accused of disseminating abusive material to a messaging group with more than 700 users. Argentina authorities arrested another suspect accused of contacting over 260 girls worldwide and of threatening victims who tried to refuse requests for increasingly explicit content. The suspect was accused of sextortion of minors. INTERPOL said messaging platforms are used to groom children, coordinate abuse, connect offenders and receive payment for illegal content, and they allow abuse images to be recirculated, revictimizing children. Material seized during the investigation is expected to help identify additional offenders and children at risk, leading to further safeguarding actions. The operation follows other international CSAM actions, including Operation Cumberland in February that led to arrests of 25 suspects linked to a large criminal ring distributing AI-generated CSAM. German authorities also took down Kidflix in April 2025, and a separate Europol-supported operation, Operation Alice, shut down more than 373,000 dark web sites offering fake CSAM packages earlier in March. The International Effort Confluencia investigation is ongoing, with further identifications expected from evidence seized during the raids.