They reported the appearance of the drivers of the bus with kidnapped migrants in San Luis Potosí

(Photo: Jovani Perez/Infobae Mexico)

Four days after the kidnapping of at least 52 people was reported on board a Transportes Hevatour’s bus, which traveled from the state of San Luis Potosí to Nuevo León, this Friday it was reported that the two drivers of the unit appeared alive.

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Perfecto Vázquez, owner of the Tlaxcala-based company, confirmed to the Milenio newspaper that both workers arrived at their homes in said entity by their own means.

However, he explained that they were beaten and traumatized, for which they were transferred to the State Attorney General’s Office (PGJE).

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It should be remembered that, according to the public complaint made by the National Confederation of Mexican Transporters (CONATRAM), 50 migrants were traveling on the bus seeking to reach the northern border to request asylum in the United States.

This is the second mass kidnapping of migrants so far this month (Photo: Twitter/INAMI_mx)

Between May 17 and 18, the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) confirmed that 49 migrants of this crime were already found in the section of federal highway 57 between San Luis Potosí and Nuevo León.

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It was detailed that of the 49 migrants, 23 are men, 15 women and six minors.

Regarding nationalities, it was reported that seven are from Venezuela, 19 from Honduras, two from Brazil, one from Cuba, 14 from Haiti and six from El Salvador.

However, a migrant has yet to be located, in addition to the fact that there are no detainees.

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On the night of May 17, the businessman declared that during the early hours of May 15 he learned, through the unit’s GPS, that in the municipality of Cedral, San Luis Potosí, he had left his route and remained immobile for 30 minutes; in addition to the fact that the 52 people on board had been deprived of their liberty by armed and hooded individuals.

And it is that a few hours later, the captors contacted him to ask him for a thousand 500 dollars in ransom for each person.

As a result of these events, he filed a complaint with the San Luis Potosí State Attorney General’s Office (FGESLP) for the theft of the bus, which was found abandoned hours later in the municipality of Galeana, in Nuevo León; that is, about 167 kilometers to the north.

It is worth mentioning that in the state of San Luis Potosí at least five drug trafficking groups operate such as Los Alemanes, the Gulf Cartel, the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, the San Luis Potosí Nueva Generación Cartel and the United Huasteca Cartel, some of them linked to the smuggling of migrants to the United States.

Dozens of Central American migrants have been rescued in San Luis Potosí in recent days, raising the concern of foreign governments. (Darkroom)

Between the first days of April and May 2023, in Mexico there have been massive kidnappings of migrants trying to reach the northern border.

The cases occur just as Mexico is going through a migration crisis due to the large number of migrants who cross the territory to find new opportunities in the US.

For its part, the National Institute of Migration (INM) announced this Friday that it delivered Visitor Cards for Humanitarian Reasons (TVRH) to 48 of these migrants who were rescued.

Migrants in an INM office to process their humanitarian visa (Photo: Twitter/INAMI_mx)

There are 17 adults traveling alone and 31 more that make up families with minors.

According to the INM, the people were taken to their facilities by the Attorney General’s Offices of the states of Nuevo León and San Luis Potosí and they were given their immigration documents.

Likewise, adults and minors who were traveling in the family nucleus, were left under the protection and guardianship of the authorities of the System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF).

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