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He Government Mexican confirmed this Wednesday that among the 31 migrants kidnapped in the state of Tamaulipason the border with U.Sthere are citizens of Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Ecuador It is Mexico.
Authorities became aware of the incident on December 30, when armed men wearing balaclavas intercepted a passenger bus coming from the city of Monterrey to Matamoros, border with Brownsville (Texas), As detailed by the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez.
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“(It was) on the highway Reynosa-Matamoros at kilometer 6, passing through the toll booth, forcing 31 of the 36 passengers traveling on the same (bus) to get off and board five vans”, indicated the secretary at the president’s morning conference, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“These are the facts, where people of diverse nationalities: Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, Hondurans, Colombians and Mexicans”he added.
Rodríguez commented that the State Public Ministry Tamaulipas “is leading the investigation with the support of Government of Mexico” together with the Secretariats of Defense, Navy and Security, as well as the National guard.
Among the actions carried out, he highlighted the track phones to locate people who participated in the kidnapping, the analysis of videos left on the bus and the use of canine pairs to track and search for migrants.
“It must be said that this type of event occurred with one, two or three migrantsbut this number in this area is atypical, it is not a problem that is occurring frequently, it is a problem, but we are sure that the operation the search will have resultsHopefully sooner or later”, he stated.
The kidnapping in Tamaulipasone of the most dangerous states for migrants crossing Mexicorevived the memory of the San Fernando massacre in that state, where the poster The Zetas killed 72 Central and South American citizens in August 2010.
Kidnappings of migrants also marked other points in the Northeast of 2023 Mexicoas in Matehuala, where authorities reported the rescue of more than 100 migrants last April, while in May almost 50 people were kidnapped.
The president López Obrador promised to inform “Whatever one says, because a certain amount of secrecy is necessary, people’s lives are at stake, but progress is being made.”
The event comes after the historic number of people who attempted to enter the United States in December at the border with Mexicowhere the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed last month the arrival of more than 2.2 million migrants from January to November.
Source: Elcomercio
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