Daniel arrived alone at a border city after escaping from his kidnappers in Villahermosa, Mexico, in August. It is a method criminals use to deceive the authorities and receive extortion money through the men. Women look less suspicious because they usually receive remittances from their immigrant relatives in the U.S., the kidnappers told several of the kidnapped migrants' families, according to the accounts collected by Noticias Telemundo Investiga.ĭenis keeps the seven transfers he sent to his brother’s captors.
The family member confirmed that he and other family members sold their cars in the U.S., as well as a farm in Honduras.Īll transfers were made to women by the same methods used to send remittances to Mexico. Lack of political will to combat extortionĭaniel said a relative in Texas negotiated the $25,000 ransom for the group. Others continued on their way to the U.S. Some of the captive migrants who were also freed opted to return immediately to Honduras. He doesn't know what happened to his relatives who were still being held hostage. He requested asylum for humanitarian reasons and is waiting to hear from the authorities. Twenty days after he was kidnapped, Daniel escaped from as his captors were changing locations, and he traveled for a week to reach a city on the U.S. We need the money, now!” Daniel kneeling with his cousins in Villahermosa, Mexico, in April as his kidnappers record video to alert his relatives in Texas. Now we are going to start cutting little fingers. We don't want to take any more actions," they said. “We've already separated the children from the parents. When the money stopped arriving on time, the kidnappers became desperate.
“So you can see that they are well attended, as long as you deposit money today," the voice in the video said. They gave them more food and turned on air conditioning. In the capital, Villahermosa, the coyote took them to a hostel, where they had to wait eight days to obtain Mexican humanitarian visas so they could continue traveling around the country.Īs the kidnappers got ransom money, the conditions for the migrants improved.
"He knew that I was exhausted here, that I didn’t have any money, because everything I had they had already taken." Another family gets a threat, this time on videoĪnother migrant, identified as Daniel, left Honduras in February, heading north with 15 other relatives, crossing Guatemala and arriving in Tabasco, in southern Mexico. "If you can’t get the money, leave me here, and God will take charge of me."ĭenis said it was like a goodbye. Leave me here and they can tear me to pieces," David said. That day the kidnappers called back and put his brother on the phone: “Brother, if you can’t do it, it's OK.
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But when he spoke to the kidnappers, they insisted that he must pay the full fee if he wanted to see his family members alive. Several survivors who spoke to Noticias Telemundo Investiga talked about the kidnappers' cult of death.ĭenis had borrowed money from his co-workers, friends from an amateur soccer league in Nashville and relatives in North Carolina. They had images of the devil, of Santa Muerte. David Sanabria and his daughter, Ximena, in Honduras before beginning their journey to the U.S. One of the things that most affected David was seeing the satanic rituals the kidnappers performed at night. When that happened, David said, the corpses were cooked and the surviving migrants were served the human meat, “so that there would be no trace of anything - that’s what one had to eat.” “With a machete they dismembered them, killed them," David said, "and the only thing I could do was cover my daughter’s eyes and ears so that she would not know what was happening, nor would she have those memories for her whole life." David said that when the deadline arrived for other migrants and their families who hadn’t been able to pay the ransom, the captives were murdered right there in the camp.
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