14ymedio, Havana, January 19, 2024 — “We are going to collect money from the dude. We are going to give him permission [to murder] and we are going to send them a video so that they can see that here in Mexico we do not play games.” This was one of the six intimidating audio messages that the aunt of Cuban Alexander Aleaga Ramírez received, from whom they demanded $10,000 in exchange for a video to prove his health.
The young man, 24 years old, left his home in Güines, in the province of Mayabeque, on January 6, to go to a party in the company of a friend and since then they have not known the whereabouts of any of them, the aunt of the missing person told 14ymedio.
Since there was no news of Aleaga, his aunt reported his disappearance on social media. She asked Irma Broek, administrator of the Facebook group Denouncing the Crimes in Cuba, to “make the case visible.” On Thursday morning, hours after the publication, they contacted the missing person’s family through a cell phone call.
A man told her that her nephew was “detained” in Veracruz (Mexico), and that he needed to
