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By: The Opinion Updated 12 Dec 2022, 000: 60 am EST
A video broadcast on social networks has raised controversy, because the images show the harrowing situation faced by migrants who cross Mexico in search of the American dream.
And, in addition to facing harassment from the authorities, many are retained by members of organized crime in exchange for a reward that must be sent by the relatives of the victims.
This happened to Heysell Lineth Martínez , of 12 years, and Julmer Martinez, of 23 years, two young brothers from Nigaragua, who left their country last 23 November bound for the United States.
Nevertheless, his journey was interrupted umpida in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, when a drug cartel kidnapped them on December 1, and holds them captive awaiting the reward.
In the video recorded by the criminal group, the two young men appear crying and asking their father for help, while they are threatened with a gun pointed at their head.
” Please dad, help us, get the money, if not, they’re going to kill us . Get the money from both of us because if not, they say they are going to kill us or cut off our fingers”, Heysell Martínez says through tears.
De According to relatives of the victims who were interviewed by Nicaraguan media, the brothers were abandoned at the border by a human trafficker , leaving them to their fate.
The sum that the cartel initially demanded to free them was 23,000 Dollars, however, after begging and seeing that the amount to be collected was inaccessible to the family, reduced the figure to 12, Dollars.
“Yesterday we deposited an advance of 5,000 dollars and at night we talk to the guys, thank God we have Their fingers and hands are good, but we still need to complete the ransom amount,” the relatives of Heysell and Julmer told the site 100%News.
Patricia Martínez , a cousin of the victims, thanked the people who have approached her to provide financial aid. “We want to clarify to the population that we are poor families and we do not want to take advantage of the situation. We merely want the boys’ ransom money,” she declared.
“They went with a ‘coyote’, but we believe that this ‘coyote’ did not pay the cartels and that’s why they were kidnapped, well, that’s what people have told us,” added Martínez.
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