The six Colombian women rescued on Tuesday in Veracruz, a city in eastern Mexico, are in shelters, but some of them refuse to return to their country due to alleged threats, revealed this Wednesday the consul general of Colombia in Mexico, Andrés Hernández.
“We have some cases where some do not want to return due to threats in Colombia,” said the official in a brief meeting with the media.
The consul’s reaction occurs just one day after the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, announced on his X account that the authorities rescued the group of women, from Medellín, Pereira, Bogotá and Cúcuta, after they disappeared in the port of Veracruz.
According to official sources, the young women, between 20 and 25 years old, received a phone call inviting them to work in a modeling agency in Veracruz, where they traveled on September 19, according to relatives.
The person who contacted them assured them that the return trip to Colombia would be on September 22 and they bought them plane tickets for that date, but none of them returned and nothing was known about them since the last messages they exchanged with their relatives on the day of their arrival in that Mexican city.
On Tuesday, while Petro attended the inauguration ceremony of the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, it was reported that the women had been located by the Mexican authorities, although no further details of the discovery were given.
This Wednesday, Hernández asserted that the young women “are in good health” and, in fact, some are already receiving psychological care.
Likewise, he pointed out that they are in “maximum security” shelters where their rights are being guaranteed and they are being protected.
“They are receiving attention from the Consulate, from our social psychologist and we are waiting for all the interviews to continue and, later, the people who are going to file a complaint will receive all the support and everything necessary from the authorities, both Mexican and Colombian,” she said.
She recalled that the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office is working in collaboration with the Mexican authorities to investigate the issue and she is confident that within two or three weeks the young women will return to Colombia.
However, she said that this will depend on “the complexity of the information they are providing and the collaboration that (the women) have with the Prosecutor’s Office.”
In recent years there have been several cases of Colombians disappearing in Mexico, and last January nine women whose relatives had lost track of appeared safe and sound in the state of Tabasco, located in the southeast of the country, after an alleged case of human trafficking.
Source: portafolio
