Cuban involved in kidnapping and murder of three migrants in Mexico

Mexican authorities arrested three people, one of them a Cuban national, allegedly involved in the kidnapping of six Ecuadorian migrants, three of whom died.

The State Attorney General's Office, through the Anti-Kidnapping Prosecutor's Office, will prosecuteDidier "N" of Cuban nationality, Jonathan "N" of Honduran nationality and Adriana "N", of Mexican nationality, for theirprobable responsibility in the crime of Aggravated Kidnapping, says an official note published inFacebook.

The events occurred in the municipality of Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, where they are stranded.thousands of migrants of different nationalities.

The date of the kidnapping is not specified, but of the sixvictims Three died at the hands of their captors, the information indicates.

The Anti-Kidnapping Prosecutor's Office reported that the Control Judge of the Judicial District of Tapachula, Chiapas, will prosecute the defendants as probable participants in the events, accused of the crime of Aggravated Kidnapping.

The six victims were fromEcuatorian nationality.

The accused remain in justified preventive detention.

In February, the United States sentenced a man to eight years in prison.member of the so-called "Cuban mafia in Quintana Roo" for money laundering, inciting the entry of foreigners, trafficking in stolen goods and bribery of public officials.

A note from the Department of Justice reported 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.

Recently, testimonies of migrants from the island kidnapped in Mexico have also emerged, where they are vulnerable to corruption schemes by the authorities and human trafficking networks led by coyotes.