This Saturday evening, the governor of Tabasco in Mexico, Carlos Merino, announced the living appearance of the nine Colombian citizens reported missing in the past 24 hours.

Merino indicated that after he learned of the warning from the Colombian Consulate in Cancun about the disappearance, an investigation was launched to find the disappearance.

The women are said to have been brought to Villahermosa, in southeastern Mexico, by a human trafficking network allegedly linked to a drug gang.

Colombia’s Interior Minister Luis Fernando Velasco assured on Saturday that through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Colombian Embassy they are already “interacting” with the government and the Mexican Public Prosecutor’s Office “to determine the whereabouts of the nine missing compatriots. “in the Villa Hermosa district.”

“We appreciate the cooperation of the Mexican authorities and we hope that these women are found quickly so that they can return home,” the minister said in a message on his X account (formerly Twitter).

According to Mexican journalist Ciro Gómez, the nine women had been missing since January 5 last year, when they were taken to a private party and sexually exploited as “escorts” by a man identified as Saulo David Sánchez Zetina, “El Jaguar.” ‘, who allegedly heads a sex trafficking network linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

According to the journalist, the complaint was filed by another group of colleagues who also work for these parties and who assured that the missing women belong to a group of between 50 and 70 women brought from Colombia to Mexico by this human trafficking network.

This network, which also has Colombian members, works by recruiting women in Colombia and taking them to Mexico, where they are informed of a debt of 120,000 Mexican pesos (about $7,100) and have their passports taken away, causing them to be forced to work as ‘escorts’. ‘.’ at private events.

According to reports, they were kept because of an issue between bosses. (JO)