The Cuban Embassy in Haiti reported this Friday through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the kidnapping in Port-au-Prince of two Cuban engineers, Andrik Alfredo Abad Reinosa and Enides Galano Silva.
Both reported Latin Press, They are originally from Moa, Holguín, and workers of the Autoplaza company, dedicated to the importation and sale of passenger and commercial vehicles, construction equipment. They were on their way to carry out procedures at the Immigration Directorate in the Haitian capital and were intercepted by armed individuals. “The kidnappers have already contacted,” Graciela Limonta, president of the Association of Cuban Residents in Haiti, told the official agency.
According to the Foreign Ministry statement, Abad and Galano “arrived in Haiti through individual work contracts with the Autoplaza company, whose owner reported the incident to the embassy.”
Haiti, with 11 million inhabitants, became in 2021 the country with the highest rate of kidnappings per capita. As of December 15, 949 abductions were registered, compared to 796 perpetrated the previous year.
Cubans join the 55 foreigners reported in that report, although the figures, the document itself states, “are not exhaustive”, due, in part, to the fact that the families of the victims do not report
This is stated in the report on the state of human rights in the Caribbean country prepared by the Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights, reports Efe.
The Cubans join the 55 foreigners reported in that report, although the figures, the document itself states, “are not exhaustive”, due, in part, to the fact that the families of the victims do not report the incident to the authorities because there are agents of the Police involved in the kidnappings.
One of the kidnappings in Haiti that received the most international attention is that of a group of American missionaries and their families, a total of 17 people, including five children, abducted on October 16 after visiting an orphanage on the outskirts of the capital. Haitian.
The captors, the criminal gang 400 Mawozo, released them last Thursday, although the religious congregation to which they belong, Christian Aid Ministries (CAM), did not provide the identities of the victims or give details about the circumstances of the release.
The kidnapping and subsequent release of journalist Alexander Gálvez, a Haitian correspondent for the Dominican television Telemicro Group, also had repercussions. the payment of a ransom.
In general, the country is experiencing an increase in violence, a situation that has worsened after the assassination of the president in July Jovenel Moïse, allegedly at the hands of an armed command made up of ex-Colombian military personnel.
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