A young Cuban who was kidnapped in Mexico shortly before showing up for his appointmentCBP One on the American border and recounted the terrible moments he experienced at the hands of his captors.
In statements to journalist Javier Díaz, the 25-year-old migrant named Orlando says that he spent five months in Mexico City and when his appointment arrived through the appCBP One He left for the border of Ciudad Juárez.
However, upon arriving in that dangerous city in northern Mexico he felt "a noise" and when he turned his head "he had a gun in his forehead."
"They didn't let us take belongings, clothes, anything, they took us barefoot," he explained.
He says that he was kidnapped along with two other Cubans and his captors smoked marijuana and gave them a bean burrito a day that they had to divide in half.
Then they asked relatives in the United States for five thousand dollars torelease them alive.
They threatened to cut off their fingers, the Cuban said.
After the family failed to get the money and made a public complaint on social networks, the three migrants from the island were released.
Orlando asks those who are traveling to take care of themselves anddon't trust anyone.
Likewise, he remembered the birth of his son while in Mexico and assures that he will work so that the baby and his wife can grow up in the United States.
Dozens of people have been kidnapped during their journey to the US border in the context of the immigration crisis that has occurred in two yearsalmost half a million Cubans to the migratory routes Central Americans.
This week the United States sentenced a member of the so-called "Cuban mafia in Quintana Roo" to eight years in prison, accused of kidnapping and extorting dozens of Cuban migrants and their relatives in Miami.
A note from the Department of Justice reports that the Prosecutor's Office for the Southern District of Florida obtained a sentence of 95 months in federal prison against a Miami Beach man named Javier Hernández, 50, for his role in a violent transnational organized crime group that operated in Cuba, Mexico, Spain and South Florida since 2009.
The immigrant extortion ring required victims to provide contact information for a family member from whom they would later demand $10,000 in ransom.
"The men would contact the victims' relatives, some of whom were in Miami, and threaten to torture, starve and murder the victims if the relatives refused to pay. If a victim's relative could pay the ransom, the organization released her and sent her by bus to the border between the United States and Mexico with instructions to request political asylum," it emerged.
"Victims whose relatives could not pay the fee were beaten, threatened with knives and guns, and electrocuted with stun weapons until they were finally rescued by Mexican authorities. Members of the organization also tried to profit from drug trafficking schemes and fraud," details the complaint.
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