They find six Colombian women who were allegedly kidnapped in Veracruz, Mexico

() – Six Colombian women were found alive this Tuesday after they were allegedly kidnapped at the end of September in Veracruz, eastern Mexico, reported the Colombian Foreign Ministry and the Veracruz Prosecutor’s Office.

Colombia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the alleged kidnapping was reported to its Consulate in Mexico City on September 29.

After the report, the Consulate contacted the Veracruz Prosecutor’s Office to request support. This Tuesday the agency reported in its X account that the women were located and released from a home in the municipality of Boca del Río, belonging to the Metropolitan Zone of Veracruz.

Moments before, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, had said in his X account who asked the Government of Mexico for help to find the women.

Petro traveled this week to Mexico, where on Monday he gave a keynote lecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and this Tuesday he was one of the leaders invited to the inauguration of President Claudia Sheinbaum.

The Colombian Foreign Ministry said in its statement that it provided help to the families of the victims and asked its citizens “to be more careful and carefully review suspicious job offers abroad in order not to fall into trafficking networks.” people”.

contacted the Colombian Consulate in Mexico to request more information about the case, the health status of the six women and the type of job offer they received, and is awaiting a response.

Between January and August of this year, Veracruz registered 17 victims of human trafficking, according to figures from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System. Of those cases, 12 occurred in August.