Nine young Colombian women have been missing since January 120, after attending a party in Cárdenas, a municipality in the capital of Tabasco (Mexico). Without any complaints at the moment, some comrades of the disappeared have sounded the alarm, as reported by journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva, where there has been talk of a network of trafficking in women that the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG) has introduced into Mexico. According to the report, the women were required to pay 000,7 pesos (about $000,<>) for an alleged debt owed to the criminal group, which is why they were forced to attend various celebrations as escort girls. In one of them, a confrontation between two cartels was the backdrop in which the Colombians were trapped.
A colleague of the young women was able to establish telephone contact with one of the detainees, by virtue of which it is suspected that they are alive, although the woman stated in the call that they had been badly beaten. So far, only five of the nine kidnapped have been identified: Nicol García, Mariana Garcés, Talía Velásquez, Valentina Pachón and Wendy Murcia. According to the Mexican newscast, the women were sent to the party by Saulo David Sanchez Zetina, the Jaguar, identified as the leader of the CJNG's human trafficking network. Precisely, the delivery of Sánchez Zetina to the group that is holding them is the condition imposed to release them, according to the Mexican media.
The Consulate of Colombia in Mexico, in charge of Andrés Hernández, spoke this Saturday on its X account and announced that they would begin the search for the nationals: "I have notified our consulate in Cancun so that the search protocols with the authorities are activated, just as we have notified the authorities of the neighboring states belonging to my constituency in case they transfer them," Published.
I have notified our consulate in Cancun so that the search protocols with the authorities are activated, just as we have notified the authorities of the neighboring states belonging to my constituency in case they are transferred.
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— Andrés Hernández R. (@AndresCamiloHR) January 13, 2024
"Mommy, I love you so much, I'm fine, pray a lot for me and for those girls, there are several of us. I barely have my cell phone and that's how I communicate with you. Forgive me mommy for everything, for everything, for everything," one of the women is heard saying in the recording of the call. Later, the same young woman mentions a life insurance policy from a Colombian bank that she suggests her mother can go to. Except for the consul, the Colombian authorities have not made a statement, nor have they been able to locate the relatives of those who have already been identified.
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