Veracruz, Mexico.- Through his X account, Hernandez said the young women were kidnapped and rescued “in the work and operations of the State Attorney’s Office.” The Colombian government and police on Tuesday denounced the kidnapping of six of their citizens who recently traveled to the Mexican state of Veracruz, in a possible case of human trafficking. Relatives of the victims asked Petro for help in locating the young women, taking advantage of his visit to Mexico City.
Those close to them told the local press that the six women traveled to Mexico after receiving job offers as models.
In recent months, there have been increasing cases of Colombian women traveling to Mexican cities to obtain various jobs, but it turns out that they have fallen victim to networks that confiscate their passports and subject them to sexual exploitation. The main destinations are the tourist destination Merida and Cancun, where drug trafficking and human trafficking have worsened in recent years. In July, police from both countries arrested in Medellin a Cuban-Mexican national who allegedly led a women-trafficking ring and was his main accomplice in the Mexican state of Yucatán.
