Eight young Colombian women have been missing since January 5 after attending a party in Cárdenas, a municipality in the capital Tabasco, Mexico. Without there being any complaints at the moment, some companions of the disappeared have raised the alarm, as reported in the news program by journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva, which spoke of a network of women trafficking that runs the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). was introduced in Mexico. According to the report, the women were forced to pay 120,000 pesos (around $7,000) for alleged debts to the criminal group and were forced to attend various celebrations as escorts. In one of them, a confrontation between two cartels was the background in which the Colombian women were trapped.
A companion of the young women managed to make telephone contact with one of the detainees, which raises suspicions that they are still alive, although the woman said in the call that they had been severely beaten. So far, only five of the nine abductees have been identified: Nicol García, Mariana Garcés, Talía Velásquez, Valentina Pachón and Wendy Murcia. According to the Mexican news, the women were sent to the party by Saulo David Sánchez Zetina, the Jaguar identified as the leader of the human trafficking network CJNG. According to Mexican media, Sánchez Zetina's handover to the group holding her is a condition of her release.
“The Colombian Consulate in Mexico, headed by Andrés Hernández, commented on the authorities this Saturday, just as we informed the authorities of the surrounding states that belong to my constituency of the case of their transfer,” he published.
I have notified our consulate in Cancun so that the search protocols can be activated with the authorities, just as we have notified the authorities of the surrounding states of my constituency in the event of a transfer.
First, search for… https://t.co/qwJtBjDUTC
— Andrés Hernández R. (@AndresCamiloHR) January 13, 2024
“Mommy, I love you very much, I'm fine, pray a lot for me and for these girls, there are several of us. I barely have my cell phone and this is how I communicate with you. “Forgive me, mom, for everything, for everything, for everything,” one of the women can be heard saying in the recording of the call. Then the same young woman mentions life insurance from a Colombian bank that she thinks her mother could benefit from.
On Saturday afternoon, Colombia's Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that communication had already taken place with the young women's families and that a complaint would be filed with the Attorney General's Office of the state of Tabasco.
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