A perilous journey awaited a 21-year-old Managua, Nicaraguan man. His journey from Central America began with dreams of a life in America, but notorious Mexican cartel members of Los Zetas promptly ended his northbound trek and kidnapped him short of his goal.
Family members of the kidnapped man say they are unable to pay the $4,000 ransom.
The kidnapped man’s father told El Nuevo Diario that he was poor and has only raised $100.
“The man told the newspaper that a suspected member of Los Zetas, a band of Mexican special forces deserters turned hired guns and drug traffickers, called him last Thursday and allowed him to briefly speak with his son,” according to a report from Latin American Herald Tribune.
The kidnapped victim told his father on a demand for ransom phone call, “They have me here, and this man says that if they get the money they’ll let me go.”
Apparently the Los Zetas kidnappers originally wanted $10,000 but reduced the ransom to $4,000, according to El Nuevo Diario.
The only property of value the victim’s family has is their house and they are now trying to sell it but haven’t had any luck yet.
The victim’s father said his son left Nicaragua in June through Mexico, hoping to cross the border illegally into America to find work in order to support his very poor family in their small Central American country.