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six Colombians Those rescued on Tuesday in Veracruz, a city in eastern Mexico, are being held in shelters, but some are refusing to return to their country because of perceived threats, Colombia’s Consul General in Mexico, Andres Hernandez, said this Wednesday.

“We have cases where some people don’t want to come back because threats in Colombia“The official said during a brief meeting with the media.

The consul’s reaction came just a day after Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced on his X account that authorities had rescued a group of women from Medellin, Pereira, Bogota and Cúcuta after missing in the port of Veracruz.

According to officials, young women between the ages of 20 and 25 received telephone calls. invite them to work at a modeling agency in Veracruzwhere they went on September 19, according to family members.

The person who contacted them assured them that the return flight to Colombia would be on September 22nd, and they purchased plane tickets for that date, but none of them returned and nothing has been heard from them since the last reports they exchanged with their families on the day of his arrival in this Mexican city.

On Tuesday, bye Peter attended the inauguration ceremony of the Mexican PresidentAs Claudia Sheinbaum reports, the women were reported to have been located by Mexican authorities, although no further details about the discovery were provided.

This Wednesday, Hernandez said that young women are “healthy” and some are even already receiving psychological help.

He also noted that they are in “maximum security” shelters, where their rights are guaranteed and they are protected.

“They are receiving attention from the consulate, from our social psychologist, and we are waiting for all the interviews to continue, and subsequently the people who are going to report will receive all the support and everything they need from the authorities, both Mexican and Colombian. “, he noted.

He recalled that Colombian prosecutors are working with Mexican authorities to investigate this issue, and expressed hope that the young women will return to Colombia within two to three weeks.

However, he said that would depend on “the complexity of the information they provide and (the women’s) cooperation with prosecutors.”

There have been several reported cases of missing Colombians in Mexico in recent years, and last January, nine women whose relatives had lost track of them turned up unharmed in the southeastern state of Tabasco after a suspected human trafficking case. .

EFE