AREQUIPA, Peru – An operation coordinated by the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Oaxaca (FGEO) rescued 174 migrants in Mexico, including nine Cubans, who were kidnapped in the municipality of Juchitán de Zaragoza.
A report from the organization on Facebook points out that the rescue was carried out together with federal and state forces on November 20. Then migrants from 12 countries were rescued, including Venezuela, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic.
Of the total number of migrants found, the publication indicates, 41 were minors and several were traveling unaccompanied.
Likewise, the identity of the saved Cubans was revealed: Yasmany DB, David Duglas RG, Yaquelin RB (34 years old), Yosleydis FG, Yoendris CF (35 years old), Zoila Leydi SG, Anny Gonzalez P. (53 years old), Joandriz AD ( 39 years old), and Yoreisi MG (50 years old).
For his involvement in the kidnapping, the mexican authorities They reported the arrest of four individuals, allegedly involved in the kidnapping and trafficking of the 174 people.
The detainees are currently under criminal jurisdiction, where their responsibility in the events will be investigated. For its part, the National Migration Institute (INM) is already providing support for the medical evaluation, shelter and safe transfer of migrants.
Organized crime in Mexico often extorts immigrants and has kidnapped dozens of Cubans in the last year.
This week it also emerged that the bodies of the Cubans kidnapped Ana Mercedes Capetillo Savón, 33, and Leydi de la Caridad Rodríguez Acosta, 36, were handed over to their relatives in Chiapas, Mexico.
As confirmed by an official source South Journalthe victims had been found dismembered last Friday, November 15, in an abandoned corral on the road that connects the Pumpuapan canton with Nueva Granada, in the upper area of Tapachula, a city on the border with Guatemala and where many Cubans arrive, hoping to advance towards the north.
According to initial investigations, the women were kidnapped by an armed group while they were in a hotel and then taken to an unknown location. In a video released prior to the murder, Ana Mercedes asked her family to pay the ransom demanded by her captors. However, when they did not receive the requested money, both Cuban women were murdered.
