Alejandro Aguilera Milanés, driver of the Haitian medical brigade kidnapped on January 23, was released this Wednesday, barely one day after the official press announced his kidnapping.
“On the afternoon of this February 1st, the collaborator Alejandro Aguilera Milanés, belonging to the Cuban Medical Brigade in Haiti, who had been kidnapped in Port-au-Prince by one of the armed gangs operating in that country, was released,” reads a statement. published this Wednesday night by the Ministry of Public Health in the official press.
The note does not add any details about the collaborator’s state of health or the circumstances of his release
The note does not add any details about the collaborator’s state of health or the circumstances of his release, although the Ministry thanks “the Haitian authorities and all the people of good will who immediately mobilized to achieve the release of the collaborator in the minor as long as possible and safely.
Aguilera Milanés, who turned 25 on Sunday during her captivity, is originally from the municipality of Colombia (Las Tunas) and works for the Provincial Health Directorate of this territory. His kidnapping was resolved in a few hours after he disclosed to public opinion, which indicates that the negotiations were advanced when he decided to spread.
His case is similar to that of Daymara Helen Pérez Alabedraalso kidnapped in Haiti on January 13, 2022. The Cuban doctor, in this case, worked for a hospital in the country after spending three years in the island’s brigade. Her release was announced on January 23, just three days after the Cuban Embassy in Haiti made reference to the case, which came to light in the Haitian press.
On that occasion, more than 70 health workers from the Cuban mission returned to the island in what appeared to be a security withdrawal that the Ministry of Public Health denied, alleging that the group included those who had completed their time in Haiti and those who were returning on vacation.
This Tuesday, Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry acknowledged a serious problem with armed gangs, which have increased kidnappings and massacres in popular neighborhoods.
This Tuesday, Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry acknowledged a serious problem with armed gangs, which have increased kidnappings and massacres in popular neighborhoods. According to official records, at least 1,000 people were kidnapped in 2021, including Cuban engineers Andrik Alfredo Abad Reinosa and Enides Galano Silva when they were going to carry out immigration procedures in Port-au-Prince. The Autoplaza company negotiated with the kidnappers and was released in approximately 15 days.
The medical brigade in Haiti turned 24 this December and is made up of close to 100 collaborators who are still in the country, and according to the Ministry “comply with the security measures established for the performance of their duties.”
In Kenya, they continue kidnapped the surgeon Landy Rodríguez Hernández and the general medicine specialist Assel Herrera Correa, intercepted in April 2019 by alleged members of the Somali jihadist group Al Shabab. The Cuban government is negotiating with the Kenyan and Somali for their release, but their self-proclaimed “tireless efforts” have failed to resolve the case.
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