Three Cuban citizens, a father and his two nephews, disappeared after arriving in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where they were supposed to attend their CBP One appointments this Monday, but never showed up because they were allegedly kidnapped, according to their family's complaint.
From Colorado, United States, the wife and daughter of the man - whose names were not revealed - gave an interview to the journalist Daniel Benítez, in which they pleaded for help to locate their relatives.
The missing individuals are named Leonardo García Kindelán, Reily Dayson Ruiz, and Rangel Ruiz Ruiz, as reported by Benítez on the program he aired this Monday on his YouTube channel.
According to the testimony of the gentleman's wife, he and his nephews took a plane from Mexico City on Saturday morning, destined for Laredo. Upon arriving at the airport of that city in the state of Tamaulipas in the north of the country, no taxi driver wanted to take them to the hotel where they were going to stay to attend the CBP One appointment scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Monday.
In the airport terminal they were until Saturday afternoon, said the Cuban, and she ensured that she herself contacted a person in Monterrey who agreed to go pick them up in Nuevo Laredo.
However, from that moment on, the story took an unexpected turn, which still has the family on edge. The man told her that, when the three Cubans left the airport and got into the vehicle, some men arrived, beat the driver, and took her husband and nephews.
The woman revealed that, shortly after receiving that news, her partner called her and asked her to stay calm, as they were in a safe house and on Monday they were going to take them to the appointment. "But it was his last call," she lamented.
According to her, she has called them insistently, but they do not answer her, and apparently, their phones are in airplane mode. As of this Monday, they still had no news of the three Cubans, who have allegedly been kidnapped.
"Please, help me, I am desperate," pleaded the woman at the end of the video.
Benítez warned about the danger that immigrants face in Mexico when they attend their CBP One appointments, due to the lack of security in all border areas, dominated by criminal bands.
The journalist described Nuevo Laredo as one of the most dangerous places due to the activity of organized crime.
He mentioned a study from the University of Austin in Texas about the risks in that area of the United States border with Mexico.
According to the research data cited by Benítez, around 55 people per day are processed in Nuevo Laredo with CBP One appointments, but security is a problem because migrants arriving for the process are at risk of being kidnapped by armed men. The report mentions the case of a family whose kidnappers demanded over $1,000 dollars for each of its members.
In Mexico, several cases have been reported of Cubans who have disappeared or died while waiting for their immigration appointments or were in transit through that country.
In the middle of this month, authorities asked for help to locate the Cuban Oscar Luis Marcos Roso, 62 years old, who was reported missing in the Mexican state of Tabasco.
A few days later, 26-year-old Eric Marcos Reyes Pupo, a native of Puerto Padre, Las Tunas, who had emigrated to Mexico with the hope of starting a new stage of life in the United States and reuniting with his mother, was murdered.
Another Cuban was murdered in May, after waiting for two years for the CBP One appointment to enter the U.S.
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