SLP, Mexico.- The doctor’s kidnappers Adrian Pupo Ojeda, 28-year-old, kidnapped in Mexico while trying to reach the United States, have demanded more money for his release, according to what he told CubaNet Dariannis Méndez, a close friend of the young man.
Méndez’s testimony offered to this editorial team states that the doctor left Cuba with a “coyote” who took him to Tapachulafrom where they sent a video in which the young man appeared confirming his arrival in Mexican territory.
However, a criminal group kidnapped him in that city border and began to ask for money for his release.
From the doctor’s own cell phone, people called the young man’s relatives in Cuba by videoconference, to ask for a reward for his freedom.
The initial amount demanded It is a high sum: 10,000 dollars, and so far they have been able to raise about 5,000, which were achieved thanks to donations from people who showed solidarity with the event.
“In Cuba they don’t have money, they are too poor people. The little money that has been raised here has been thanks to Mario Pentón who put it in the networks and people have sent me money so I can help him,” said Pupo’s friend.
The doctor’s wife, he noted, is desperate in Cuba. “The family doesn’t have the money, that money was what was raised, but they don’t have the money, that money is because people have been donating it.”
However, after sending the 5,000, deposited to a person in Mexico, the captors responded that this sum did not reach them, but was sent to another person and they demand more.
If they did not receive it, they assured Méndez, they would torture the doctor.
“Now they come out saying that no, that money was sent to other people, that it wasn’t them, that they want more money, if they are not going to torture him, they are going to do things to him,” he explained.
And he added that it was a “sad” situation because “no matter how much they are ordering him, they are not going to let him go. “I have the screenshot where the money has been sent, and they are Mexican people, accounts from Mexico, with names.”
Desperate and without finding a solution, Pupo’s friend expressed that she has been trying to obtain the money and asked for help to report the crime.
“What they are doing is playing with this boy’s life and we, the friends, the family members who are here, are worried about him, we don’t want them to kill him but they don’t have the money to pay what is missing and they have already been sent 5,000 dollars,” he noted.
The kidnapped young man graduated as a doctor from the University of Las Tunas and is the father of a child who is about to turn two years old, according to Dr. Daniela Pons, a former classmate of Pupo Ojeda, and the doctor. Alexander Pupo Casasalso known to the victim.
Both Méndez and Pons previously called everyone the doctor knew to donate money for his rescue.
“I appeal to all those people who know him or can help with something, please contact me. Even if it is a dollar, you will be grateful, his family is very desperate,” Méndez wrote.
