2024-01-03 07:51:05
The event occurs after historic numbers were recorded in December of people seeking to enter the United States. (ARCHIVE)
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, confirmed this Tuesday that there are at least four citizens of the Andean country among the 31 migrants kidnapped last Saturday while they were in a truck in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bordering the United States.
“In this multiple kidnapping in Mexico there are four Colombians. The Colombian embassy in Mexico coordinates the safe and sound rescue with the Mexican state“said the president in a message published on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
The kidnapping of the migrants, mostly Venezuelans, was confirmed this Tuesday by the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“It is known that it is a truck with 30 or 31 migrants that were unloaded, leaving fivethey took the other migrants, but the search is already underway from the first moments,” López Obrador detailed in statements to the media after finishing his morning conference in the southern state of Tabasco.
The Mexican president affirmed that the Secretariat of Public and Citizen Security of the federal government is investigating the case, but emphasized that it is still unknown which group carried out the kidnapping and for what reason.
According to reports, the intercepted migrants They are mostly Venezuelans who would have left the northern city of Monterrey to Matamorosbordering Brownsville (Texas), to attend his humanitarian asylum appointment in the United States.
The event occurs after historic numbers were recorded in December of people seeking to enter the United States at the border with Mexico, where Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed last month the arrival of more than 2.2 million of migrants from January to November. AND
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