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Saturday, November 16
VIDEO: Armed group in Mexico intercepts US tourists, who pray not to be killed
The life of two American tourists, for a moment, it seemed to come to an end. At least that is how his face of terror and the pleas before an armed group showed it that intercepted them on a highway in Tabasco, south of Mexico.
The terrifying moment was made known through a video widely disseminated on social networks , however, it is about a recording of 21 February 2020, but it was until these days that it was published.
Prior to the meeting, the two men, who identified themselves as Aaron and Logan , they chatted while looking at the map from their cell phone, suddenly, a truck with armed men appears on the scene, catching up and intercepting them.
# ENTERATE Two Americans they lose in the land of President López Obrador and are detained by an armed group: the video that confirms that Mexico has territories where the law does not command, but the criminals https://t.co/aq3IuVx8Wc
– Entérate México (@EnterateMexico_) December 16, 2021
When looking at the scene, the co-pilot shouts in English to his partner that they must flee, however, the driver rejects the proposal and receives, with broken words, one of the armed crew members.
At that moment, panic seizes both tourists, while the man questions , in Spanish, to the driver where they are going, however, Aaron stuttered, seemed not to understand the question and only begged, “don’t kill me, for please ”, to or that the armed responds to calm down.
” No problem, no pass ”, responds the interlocutor, in improvised English and insists in Spanish, “calm down, güero” .
After that moment, the copilot shares that they are going to visit their mother without specifying exactly where their destination is.
In the hurried conversation, the armed men seem to understand that the tourists were lost, so they decide to let them go, after exchanging a “friendly” handshake.
At the end of the recording, the men realize that inside the foreigners’ car there is a camera, however, they only ask to turn it off, just at that moment, the video comes to an end.
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