A week has passed and the relatives do not know where their loved ones are. Monica, a relative of one of the 14 people who disappeared during their journey from the capital of Oaxaca to Puerto Escondido, said that some of the relatives were threatened so that they would not report the disappearance of their loved ones.
Monica identified herself as a relative of Julio Alberto Quiroz, an 18-year-old who was traveling with 13 other people. She said that so far there are eight files on the missing people, but that the rest decided not to speak out of fear after they received threats and attempts to extort them.
“The Attorney General has not told us anything, he (Julio) disappeared on January 7 of this year, what we know is that there were several people, there were several of them, apparently eight of them, they were commenting on why there were not more if we are talking about 14 people, the detail there is that several received threats, they were extorted not to file a complaint, because of them apparently three, four people decided not to talk, to stay quiet, to wait to see what happened,” she said in an interview with Azucena Uresti on Radio Fórmula.
She revealed that the last location of one of the missing people who was traveling with the group shows that he was in Río Grande, Oaxaca, a town that is about 47 kilometers away from Puerto Escondido, where they were supposedly headed.
Monica said that the threats that the relatives of some of the missing people have received try to dissuade them from filing complaints and from making publications to spread the cases. In addition, the amounts that the extortionists have requested are approximately seven thousand pesos, she told the journalist.
Authorities and relatives defend different versions
The relatives maintain that there are 14 young people who disappeared in the coastal area, while the Prosecutor’s Office activated the search and location protocols for six adults who formally have a complaint.
According to the authorities, the six people were last seen between December 31, 2024 and January 7, 2025, in different towns in the central area of Oaxaca, based on information provided by the relatives.
Likewise, the State Prosecutor’s Office reported that the complaints were for the different cases made between January 11 and 13 when the victims’ relatives went to the security institution.
María Luisa Rodríguez Betanzos, mother of José Miguel Vásquez Rodríguez, one of the 14 young people who have disappeared since January 7 in Oaxaca, also requested urgent help to find her son.
Source: infobae
