The National Institute of Migration (INM) has not offered details about the 39-year-old Cuban who was left in its custody after she was released this Wednesday by her kidnappers in a place in the municipality of Nopaltepec, in the State of Mexico. According to the Attorney General’s Office of that state, the migrant was transferred to the Las Agujas station in Mexico City.
The Nopaltepec Public Security Commissioner, Eduardo Camargo Martínez, who preferred to keep the name of the Cuban woman anonymous for having been a victim of kidnapping, confirmed to 14ymedio that the woman is originally from Pinar del Río and, according to her account, she had been deprived of her freedom for three days.
The administrative record indicates that the migrant was intercepted last Monday by four armed individuals at the Central Camionera del Norte in Mexico City, where he planned to board a bus bound for Guanajuato to continue his journey to the border with the United States. The woman was put in a van where they pointed a gun at her and forced her to give the phone number of a relative to demand money in exchange for her release.
The Cuban said that during the kidnapping, she was in three different places, and she was released 30 minutes before her relatives handed over the money. The victim was found by an inhabitant of Tepetzingo on Wednesday, while walking among corn and bean crops. After telling her what happened, the woman was taken to the offices of the Nopaltepec Police Station.
Camargo Martínez indicated that when filing the complaint, the migrant was carrying a bag and identified herself with a passport issued in Havana, Cuba, on November 11, 2021. Regarding her physical condition, the commissioner stated that she did not present any injuries. The authorities provided her with a telephone number to communicate with her husband, who is in the US, to ask her “not to make any deposit”, however the woman did not confirm if there was finally any payment.
The official specified that the complaint could not be followed up, because personnel from the Anti-Kidnapping Prosecutor’s Office in the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl confirmed that the migrant did not have a visa, so she was handed over to the Migration agents.
Personnel from the Las Agujas station, consulted by this newspaper, said they were unaware of the woman’s stay at the immigration center. Last February, at least 10 Cubans were admitted to this site despite having parole US humanitarian. Dachel, Yida and Amehd They were released after denouncing their case on social networks. Luis Ángel Sánchez and Noelvis La O Pereira they were still in place until the last week of last month.
In May 2022, Cuban migrants Barbara Rodríguez Téllez and her son Sadiel González revealed that they spent 26 days in captivity in the border city of Ciudad Juárez with El Paso (Texas). “They pointed a gun at me here (at my neck) and they knelt him down. If I didn’t say what they told me, they would kill my son,” the woman said that they had to pay $30,000 to avoid being killed.
The area of Ciudad Juárez, where Rodríguez and González were kidnapped, is controlled by the Juárez and Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels, the latter under the command of Nemesio Oserguera Cervantes, El Mencho, for whom the US State Department offers 10 million of dollars.
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