The armed command “lifted” 20 foreigners from a hotel in San Luis Potosí

a order hypotheses contract killers broke into a Matehuala Hotel, San Luis Potosí, and unlawfully deprived of liberty at least 20 foreigners, Come in Haitians and Venezuelan.

According to the prosecution, the group of men and women were forcibly taken away while they were sheltered in the Sol y Luna Hotel, in the early morning of September 14th.

Suspected members of organized crime they arrived armed in three vans and in addition to “lifting up” the strangers, they caused destruction in the rooms.

“I sent staff to conduct the investigation, although I gave specific instructions to the staff we have in Matehuala to undertake the analysis and find the whereabouts of these foreigners, who have sort of been denied access. their freedom ”, declared the public prosecutor, Federico Arturo Garza Herrera.

Although the San Luis Potosí Public Prosecutor’s Office he has already carried out the first investigations, the number of victims is still undetermined and a number well above 20 people is suggested.

“The investigative elements found inside the rooms, identifications of certain peopleSo far, the exact number of victims has not been counted, ”stressed the ministerial cell.

Presumably it was migrants, but the ministerial unit failed to specify to this media the status of Haitians and Venezuelans in Mexico, because the case is ongoing.

Until 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the Prosecutor’s Office in Potosi had no update on the fate of the foreigners, as they the search operation continued, as well as obtaining data to clarify the matter.

“We are trying to find their identity, We know that among the things this group took was the logbook of everyone who stays at the hotel.That’s why we don’t have a lot of data right now, so investigations into this are ongoing, ”Garza Herrera said.

So far, it is not known which criminal group carried out the kidnapping. Even if Matehuala It is located in the region adjacent to Zacatecas and Nuevo León, where various groups of drug traffickers converge, whose activity has specialized in human trafficking, as well as in drug shipments.

Concretely, the municipality north of San Luis Potosí is in conflict over the cells of the Zetas old school versus Jalisco new generation cartel, according to reports from the Secretariat of the Mexican Navy (Semar).

The geographic location and connectivity of San Luis Potosí turned the state into a road besieged by drug trafficking, as it is the obligatory road of other entities such as Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Querétaro, Guanajuato and Zacatecas.

Semar reports indicate that the Gulf Cartel (CDG) It is in 19 municipalities of San Luis Potosí; Los Zetas at 11; Jalisco’s new generation cartel (CJNG) out of seven; and in three others there is the presence of the cartel of San Luis Potosí Nueva Generación. At Salinas the Taliban would operate with the CJNG and the CDG, but in Santo Domingo and Villa de Ramos they would only be with the second criminal faction. Just these three demarcations border Jalisco and Zacatecas.

The state has 1,320 kilometers of federal highways spread across the north and east of the country, as a result, criminal groups are concentrating their operations on robbing carriers, drug trafficking, and migrants.

So far, the authorities have not clarified possible investigative leads in the Matehuala case, but various reports have indicated the forced co-option of migrants to coerce them to work in crime-related activities or, failing that, to be used as carriers. or “mules” of drugs across the border between Mexico and the United States. Although they also extort money from them and keep them kidnapped in exchange for payments sent by relatives in their home country or the United States.

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