By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat
After two days of being held captive by a criminal group in Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, seven electricians who were kidnapped while traveling to a job site were released. One of the workers stated in an interview that he believes the criminal group sought to recruit them for an electrical project.
On the morning of March 21 as the group was traveling along Highway 57 toward their jobsite, a pickup truck with armed men intercepted them and forced them to stop. They were taken at gunpoint, and transported to a safehouse. The victim said they were blindfolded and tied up the entire time.
"A van arrived and they picked us up, depriving us of our freedom. They took us to a safe house. They blindfolded and tied us up. It was a very traumatic experience; we thought we would never see our families again,” one of the victims told Milenio.
During captivity, their captors told them the motive was forced recruitment, specifically to use their electrical skills for criminal activities. Eventually, on the morning of their release, they were told to get into a vehicle and were later dropped off, from where they walked to a toll booth to seek help. They were taken to a hospital and then the All of the kidnapping victims were confirmed to be in good health.
News of the mass kidnapping spread rapidly across social media and the press. Over 500 soldiers and police officers were deployed to search for them. It is possible the viral reaction online led to the government pressure, which forced the criminals to release the captives.
In the past, Matehuala was considered territory of the Cartel del Noreste. Today, researchers have identified at least six criminal organizations operating the municipality, complicating pinpointing the kidnapping on one group.
Criminal groups have been known to kidnap electricians and CCTV technicians, either on suspicion they assisted rivals with their surveillance networks, or because they want the workers to install their own.
Sources: Milenio, Quinto Poder, Excelsior, Noroeste, El crimen organizado y la violencia en San Luis Potosí by Samantha Pérez Dávila, Grupo Animal
White Apprenticed Boy Here- Smh, shows how low IQ the future “superior” individuals can get…can’t get any better at crime…Mexico is taking first place if it were a competition…”Mexico Lindo y Querido”…lol. Voter ID’s please here in the states..thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteWhite Dork.
Delete10:53 get a life, take a shower man. You live on BB
DeleteSol and Conner are responsible for this.
ReplyDelete11:25 how so? Their hands are always busy with each other.
DeleteEl Apa CJNG and el Flama chapizza caught in an operation by the SeDENa en teocaltiche
ReplyDeleteConnor bebe ..,,,, si estas viemdo esto te amo baby
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to those kidnapped miners in Sinaloa?
ReplyDeleteHave they been found ?
The miners turned up dead, we believe
DeleteNo. Sinaloans can do shit to others without getting caught.
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DeleteI regret to inform you, due to unfortunate events occurring in Mexico, and rampant immunity...
they were killed.
Yes it's true that Shienbaum the president of Mexico, has put a special unit from the PGR to investigate the killings. Yes I agree weeks have went by already.
I too am still waiting on official news from the President on the status of a Valeria the influencer shot on video at the beauty salon, she put a special unit to find out, it leaves me to believe Shienbaum also cares a rats ass, on whomever gets killed.
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DeleteSheinbaum is a moron. She repeats the same nationalistic nonsense like if that nullifies the reality the vast majority of Mexicans are living .
The dumbest thing she’s said lately were “the world has much to learn from Mexico” and “Mexico is the envy of the world”. Complete idiocy!
No kidding! Good thing the US president has a third grade vocabulary but to be fair; he reads at a fifth grade English as a second language student.
DeleteHis math is impeccable too and he’s cut prices more than 2,000% like nobody has ever seen. Also “they” said he could never do it but he proves “they” wrong!
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Look at it this way, Sheibuam bends over, and follows everything to a T, as AMLO had done when President.
Delete🤔 Let's just say it's AMLO in a dress, as she is pupetized by the Morena Party.
Look at it this way, Sheibuam bends over, and follows everything to a T, as AMLO had done when President.
Delete🤔 Let's just say it's AMLO in a dress, as she is pupetized by the Morena Party.
Sheibuam rose politically, by bending over.
DeleteYou can't even be a simple good hard working electrician in Mexico without the fear of being kidnapped. You can see that deploying military forces when this happens has an effect. The kidnappers got scared and quickly released the hostages. The Mexican military needs to be used more often since they are the least to be infiltrated and corrupted by criminals. Nuff Said!!!
ReplyDeleteI agree, damn shame honest, hard working Mexicans can’t even apply their trade without fear of being kidnapped for absolutely no fault of their own.
DeleteThats what complete impunity does to a society, the criminally inclined feel (and are) free to commit crimes without fear of any consequences.
Viral social media posts put enough pressure on the government to get over 500 pairs of boots on the ground.
ReplyDeleteAnd the kidnappers released these men unharmed.
If every kidnapping went viral like this, with the same enforcement response, kidnapping would stop.
The fly in the soup, of course, is the fact that foos like Jorge Peña are everywhere.
Word on the street is they were actually looking for plumbers...the big torta clogged up the piping, again
ReplyDeleteSol's discarded manuscript.
DeleteWhatever happened to those other specialists kidnapped months back?
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DeleteI just remembered, those "specialists" were miners, what's happened w them?
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DeleteFound dead a few days later, was here on BB.
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