Families of the missing watch the U.S. effort to find the four citizens abducted in the border city and ask: Why aren't their cases getting the same attention?
MEXICO CITY — Lisa Torres was glued to her phone, watching news reports on the kidnapping last week of four Americans in the Mexican city of Matamoros. She lived in the Houston suburbs, hundreds of miles away, but knew well the pain of having a relative snatched on the other side of the border. Her son, Robert, was just 21 when he vanished in Mexico’s Nuevo León state in 2017.
The 21-year-old mechanic was traveling from the Texas border crossing at Los Indios toward the Mexican city of Reynosa when he and a friend disappeared, his mother said. Torres believes the young men may have run into a cartel roadblock. Barrios said he reported the kidnapping to U.S. consular officials. “They said they couldn’t do absolutely anything, they don’t intervene in Mexican issues,” he said. “Now we realize this is a terrible lie.”The State Department, when asked for comment, said that when U.S. citizens go missing, “we work closely with local authorities as they carry out their search efforts, and we share information with families however we can.
The U.S. government appears to face a growing challenge in Mexico. The number of Americans reported disappeared and still missingTorres helps run the Facebook site
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