A Cuban woman waskidnapped by an armed groupat a bus terminal in Mexico City and released three days later in a neighboring state, authorities reported.
The woman, 40 years old, blonde hair andnative of Pinar del Río, made the complaint to the Public Ministry after her captors left her abandoned in a crop field in the municipality of Nopaltepec, located in the northeastern area of the Valley of Mexico.
The police told the newspaperThe universal that the victim was found by one of the residents in a place called Tepetzingo, in the community of San Antonio.
After being found, the Cuban woman told the man what had happened and asked for help from Nopaltepec Public Security, explained Eduardo Camargo Martínez, commissioner of the Municipal Police.
The victim reported that it waskidnapped at the Central Bus Station of the North in Mexico City.
"She told us what happened, she asked me for the phone number to contact her husband, who lives in the United States, to ask him not to make any deposit, since she had already been released," Camargo stressed.
According to the woman's testimony, four armed people forced her into a gray van and took her to at least three safe houses.
The kidnappers called theirrelatives to request a ransom, but when there were 30 minutes left before the payment deadline, they released her. It is unknown if the family agreed to pay the ransom.
The woman is from Pinar del Río and was at the bus station to travel to Guanajuato, a state four hours from Mexico City.
TheAttorney General's Office of the State of Mexico He took the woman to the authorities of the Immigration Institute in Mexico City because her passport was not visad. It is presumed that she is one of the many Cuban immigrants who have been stranded in that country after the closure of the border with the United States last January.
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