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A week, $16,000 and a lot of uncertainty must pass a Venezuelan immigrant family kidnapped in Mexico to get freedom and safety. Claudia Rivero and Carlos Ospina traveled to the United States with their two daughters, Victoria, 12, and Carla, 10, with the intention of applying for asylum at the border before meeting relatives in Georgia.
But something went wrong. This is the story. On September 16, Claudia Rivero’s mother, Arelys Verde, reported that her relatives had been kidnapped in Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexican side of the border with the United States.
Colombia, on the plane, was staying at a hotel in Ciudad Juarez when he disappeared. He got a call from people claiming to have them and asking him to pay a ransom. If they didn’t, they threatened to kill them: “I had to pay what they asked for, but they weren’t released.” On September 21, Verde’s phone came with another call from the kidnappers: “They told We asked for more money and we gave them. They said they would release the family in a few hours, but they didn’t. We didn’t.” Knowing nothing else. “They,” the woman said. A happy ending.
Arelys Verde assured in a phone interview with the Efe agency that she had received calls from relatives notifying her that they were already in the United States and were being detained by immigration authorities in El Paso, Texas. In order to be released, the family must pay the alleged kidnapper $16,000.
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