Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador has been forced to admit that the Gulf Cartel has freed a group of 32 abducted migrants, contradicting the previous government's claim that police and military rescued the group. Rejected. López Obrador's statement confirms details first published by Breitbart Texas that show Tamaulipas state and federal officials sought to take credit for freeing the migrants. became.
President López Obrador (AMLO) told the media at a morning press conference that after the kidnappings, the armed groups took the migrants elsewhere, but after a large deployment of military and police, “they We decided to let them go…it was a good thing.” , safe and sound,” he said.
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He further stated that armed groups loaded migrants onto public transport buses (pesera) and dropped them off at the parking lot of the shopping center where “the rescue took place.”
López Obrador's statement comes from a Breitbart Texas exclusive that says the Tamaulipas state government tried to take credit for the rescue, when in fact government officials had contacted the Gulf Cartel about the release. It supports the article.
According to a report in Breitbart Texas, the incident began on December 30 when a group of 32 migrants aboard a Senda commercial bus were heading from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, to the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Ta. Initial police reports said there were 36 migrants on the bus, but new information puts the number at 37 because authorities did not count the 1-year-old, who was with his mother and needed a bus ticket. It becomes.
Gunmen from the Gulf Cartel intercepted a bus near Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas, forced 37 passengers off the bus, and kidnapped them in several vehicles.
Authorities spotted a suspicious vehicle attempting to avoid a traffic stop and were quickly able to rescue five of the migrants. Two gunmen fled, leaving behind five migrants.
Since the incident, the Tamaulipas state government has attempted to suppress information about the incident and denied various reports of ongoing cartel violence in the region. López Obrador is an ardent supporter of Tamaulipas Governor Americo Villarreal. Villarreal is a politician previously accused by Breitbart of Texas of supporting the Gulf Cartel since his inauguration in exchange for political and financial support.
A video shared in late 2022 records a conversation between Nohemi Estrella Real, daughter of the Gulf cartel leader, and her daughter, in which she claims they will be protected if Américo Villarreal takes office. Ta.
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