The Attorney General of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, in the north of the country, said on Friday that five people linked to the kidnapping of four Americans last week in that border territory with the neighboring country were arrested, in an incident that has strained relations between the two. countries.
Suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel turned over five suspected hitmen Thursday as an apparent apology for last Friday’s kidnapping in the northern border city of Matamoros. It was not immediately clear they were the same people.
The Tamaulipas prosecutor, Irving Barrios, reported on his Twitter account that the alleged criminals were apprehended for the crimes of aggravated kidnapping and intentional simple homicide. Two of the hostages died and the two survivors were handed over to their country on Thursday.
Later, at a press conference, the US ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, said that a plan proposed in recent days by his country’s legislators regarding a possible military intervention in the Latin American country would not solve the security problems or of the drug cartels.
“A (US) military force in Mexico is not going to bring the solutions we need,” said Salazar, in response to the initiative of Republican legislators, which was classified as “lack of respect” by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. .
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