Mexico, Jun 24.— The Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) has been linked to the Gulf Cartel that smuggles people from Cuba to the United States via Mexico, reported the La Jornada newspaper on Monday quoting sources in the Mexican Attorney General’s Office.
The Mexican newspaper states that for three years the terrorist organization based in Miami has had ties with a band of hired killers known as Los Zetas, of the Gulf Cartel, who smuggle Cuban and Central American immigrants to the US through Mexican territory.
Citing legal sources, the newspaper adds that testimonies given before the authorities and courts of Cancun, Quintana Roo show the participation in these operations of two Cuban-born citizens currently under arrest and being held in this state.
The article states that Nairobi Claro and Noriel Veloz, allegedly responsible for trafficking 33 Cubans into Mexico, have declared that they belong to CANF and received money to bribe Mexican authorities and obtain false immigration documents.
The article associates the two suspects with the recent kidnapping of a group of Cuban immigrants being transported by National Immigration Institute (INM) officers from Cancun to the immigration station in the state of Chiapas.
Claro and Veloz decided not to accept bail after it was posted for them by lawyers unknown to them. They fear being killed by a CANF assassin if they are released from the Cancun jail.
La Jornada also cites confidential intelligence reports from the Attorney General’s Office noting that a trip from Cuba to Mexico costs around US $10,000.
Source:Periódico 26 -- Las Tunas, Cuba
Thursday, June 26, 2008
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