A total of 49 migrants, including a Cuban, were rescued from a kidnapping in the Mexican state of Nuevo León. “The first migrants gave us the information that they had arrived at a gas station to refuel and from there they had been approached by members of organized crime,” the Secretary of National Defense, General Luis Crescencio Sandoval, explained on Thursday about the case.
Cruz de Elorza, a Honduran national, told the media that the bus left Chiapas on Sunday and was intercepted by armed men in police uniforms in Los Medina, a town near Doctor Arroyo, in Nuevo León.
Elorza mentioned that a woman let them know that the passing of that bus was not reported. “They offered them 40,000 pesos to let us pass, but they did not accept.” It was then that they were taken down from the unit and locked up in houses and others in hostels, from where they escaped.
This Thursday, General Luis Crescencio Sandoval said that since the kidnapping was learned, 650 members of the National Guard and the Army have been deployed
This Thursday, General Luis Crescencio Sandoval said that since the kidnapping was learned, 650 members of the National Guard and the Army have been deployed. He identified the regions of Doctor Arroyo, San Roberto, Cedral, Matehuala, Santo Domingo, Charcas, and Salinas, communities located between San Luis Potosí and Nuevo León, as places where kidnappings of migrants have been recorded.
Matehuala has been denounced for his insecurity. In February, the closure of the State Penitentiary Center was announced, where 71 highly dangerous inmates were being held, who were transferred to federal prisons.
The local authorities themselves have been linked to organized crime. The director of the Matehuala Municipal Police, Francisco Eduardo Moreno Rosales, who was found with bags of drugs during a search of his offices, continues to work.
On May 5, an audio broadcast on social networks revealed the links of Iván Estrada Guzmán, mayor of Matehuala, in the state of San Luis Potosí, with the drug trafficker. “Because I tell you, I am transparent and I noble [sigo] with the transparent cartel and what the cartel tells me, here it is, and what the cartel deserves, here it is,” is heard in the recording.
In the Matehuala area and in the city of San Luis Potosí, the authorities have detected groups that kidnap migrants linked to the Gulf Cartel, the Northeast Cartel, Los Alemanes, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel.
Attempts to reach the United States by sea will be taken as a disqualification for Cuban and Haitian migrants from the parole process, an official said.
Meanwhile, in the US, the authorities continue to toughen the measures against irregular migrants. “Our maritime borders are closed to illegal migration,” Coast Guard Captain Benjamin Golightly said this Wednesday, reiterating the insistent message of the Joe Biden Administration, when reporting that in five days the agency “repatriated and transferred” 169 people to Cuba and the Bahamas.
Golightly recalled in a statement that “attempts to reach the United States by sea will be taken as a disqualification for Cuban and Haitian migrants from the parole process.” The official specified that the rafters will be “intercepted and then repatriated to their country of origin or where they left.”
Despite these warnings, Cubans continue to land in Florida. This Thursday, the chief officer of the Patrol, Walter Slosar, reported that 23 rafters from the island were taken into custody for deportation. These people were marginalized from the program of parole humanitarian aid “indefinitely”.
Since October 1, 2022, Coast Guard crews have intercepted 6,679 Cuban and 4,473 Haitian immigrants.
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