Mexican authorities rescued two Colombian migrants in the process of traveling to the Texas border when a group of cartel gunmen kidnapped them. Police and gunmen clashed until authorities managed to seize a large armored truck.
The kidnapping took place in Anahuac, Nuevo Leon, when the two migrants were traveling toward the border with Texas. It was along one of the highways where gunmen at a roadblock abducted the migrants and moved them to a safe house, information released by Mexico’s National Anti-kidnapping Commission revealed.
The gunmen forced the migrants to call their relatives in Colombia for ransom payments. The families contacted their consular officials who then reached out to Mexico’s federal government. Authorities were eventually able to trace their passage through various cities in Tamaulipas.
Police tracked the kidnappers to the border city of Camargo, where they clashed with the gunmen and rescued the kidnapping victims. Inside the seized vehicle were caltrops and packages of meth.
Police took the Colombian migrants to Nuevo Leon where they were turned over to immigration authorities and officials from their home country.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “A.C. Del Angel” and Francisco Morales from Tamaulipas.
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