CDN: We Don’t Kidnap Families or Children

Nuevo Laredo, Mexico - Foreign media and authorities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported yesterday on the possible kidnapping of a Honduran migrant, by members of the dominant Cartel del Noreste in the city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

According to the information that developed, the criminals demanded the amount of $14,000 in exchange for the release of Honduran Ricardo Stewart “Mope”, an amateur former soccer player from northern Honduras, who was kidnapped with his son Cristhofer Stewart.

The kidnapped young man Stewart, is a former soccer player who lived in Tela Atlántida, Honduras. He played with teams such as Victoria (reserves), Sonaguera FC, among others. His aim was arriving to the United States, but he and his son allegedly remain under capture of the criminal organization Los Zetas of the CDN.

Worried relatives of the Hondurans have asked citizens for collaboration and asked for help to raise the $ 14,000.  The phone number +504 9837-9978 was made available for those who have news of "Mope" and his son. In addition, to coordinate financial aid for the rescue.

Through social networks, several family members joined the requests for help so that the criminals linked to the CDN ”release the Hondurans for whom $7000 is being asked for each one.

INITIAL INVESTIGATIONS

The Honduran ambassador to Mexico, Alden Rivera, recommended that affected families complete the process of presenting themselves at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tegucigalpa to formally file a complaint that they have lost contact or are being subject to extortion by groups of organized crime in Mexico.

“The information we have from the Tela family is the only one that is circulating through social networks, we are using that information to start the investigation process by first exhausting the possibility that they have been arrested for illegal migration in Mexico or are in some shelter, as well as that they have suffered some type of accident ”.

Rivera, stressed that, “we have a protocol for the search of people. We initially apply this to begin with before declaring that there is sufficient evidence to make a complaint with the Mexican authorities regarding an instance of kidnapping or deprivation of freedom, we are in that first initial stage. Afterwards we will proceed with the authorities ”.

The same coyote (human smuggler) kidnapped them.

Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, reported yesterday that the kidnapped family that circulated through social networks in Mexico, was rescued last Wednesday thanks to the intelligence work of the Azteca police.

According to the report, the family of migrants, consisting of three minors and one adult, intended to arrive illegally to the United States, when they were kidnapped by members of a criminal gang, who made contact with their relatives in Honduras.

While she was being detained, the family was recorded with a phone by an armed thug who told them to say the name of a supposed coyote originally from Yoro, Honduras.

Victims under threats state that the man in the photo that appears on a cell phone is Carlos Luis Orellana Luján, and that he is from Morazán, Yoro, Honduras.

The Foreign Minister of Honduras, Lisandro Rosales, reported last Wednesday night on his Twitter account, that the Prosecutor of Mexico informed him about the rescue through the Honduran ambassador to Mexico, Alden Rivera.

In a communication with a local radio station, Ambassador Alden Rivera, explained that the compatriots had been kidnapped by the same "coyote" they hired to take them to the United States, who happens to be Honduran.

The diplomat added that at the time of the rescue the kidnapper was captured by the Mexican authorities.

"I would like to thank the Mexican authorities for the rescue of this Honduran family," Rivera said.

He said that victims may request asylum in Mexico for 12 months if they wish, or request that they be sent back to Honduras immediately.

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