Veracruz, Mexico.- Through his X account, Hernández said that the girls were kidnapped and rescued “in the course of the work and operations of the Attorney General's Office.” The Colombian government and police on Tuesday condemned the kidnapping of six of its citizens who had recently traveled to the Mexican state of Veracruz, in a possible case of human trafficking. Relatives of the victims had asked Petro for help in finding the young women, taking advantage of his visit to Mexico City.
People close to them told local press that the six women traveled to Mexico after receiving job offers as models.
In recent months, cases of Colombian women traveling to Mexican cities for various jobs have increased, only to find themselves victims of networks that take their passports and subject them to sexual exploitation. The main destinations are tourist-heavy Mérida and Cancún, where drug trafficking and human trafficking have worsened in recent years. In July, police from both countries arrested in Medellín a Cuban-Mexican national suspected of leading a women's trafficking network and its main partners in the Mexican state of Yucatán.