Carlos Manuel Joaquín GonzálezMexican ambassador to Canada, confirmed that he was in “close contact» with the Royal Gendarmerie of this country for the case of Carlos Tomás Arandaa Mexican disappeared a month ago in the province of British Columbia.
“From the Mexican Embassy in Canada, we are in close contact with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police regarding the case of Mr. Carlos Aranda,” the ambassador reported on his Twitter account.
“I met with Commissioner Mike Duheme, who informed us that all efforts to find him are continuing and that The family’s request for information will be answered immediately.“he added.
On August 7, Interpol issued a yellow card to find Aranda, who disappeared on July 7 in the town of Osoyoos after traveling with a friend from Oaxaca.
That day, his father, Octavio Aranda, finally met the head of the the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Álicia Bárcena, after reporting this nearly a month after her son’s disappearance, They still didn’t have a report from the Canadian police and that the Mexican Embassy in Canada He hadn’t paid attention to her case.
At the meeting, where in addition to Bárcena, Vanessa Calva, Who is it Director General of Consular Protection and Strategic Planning of the SRE, The chancellor promised to take the matter personally, on the orders of the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
“We are helping relatives in the search for a young man missing in Canada. “We are also asking for support and they are helping us in Canada,” President López Obrador commented last week.
The young man’s relatives denounced to the media the lack of support from Mexico and Canada, where Carlos’ father visited the region where his son disappeared and requested reports from Canadian police. without success.
“I received an email where we first requested the report and we submitted the email through the platform, this email stated that the Canadian law provided for a period of 15 to 30 days to deliver this mail to us, but yesterday, the day before yesterday, we received the email where the Canadian police requested a 30 day extension, What does that mean, 30 plus 30, “Two months to submit a report to let us know whether or not they did the investigation,” he explained.
Regarding a video in which Carlos was seen asking for help in a hotel, before his disappearance, Mr. Octavio confirmed that it was true. “I saw it, it’s a video of a hotel called Spirit Ridge Resort, It’s half an hour from Carlos’s house, in fact there, you can see in the images that my son is asking for help, they are trying to give him help, because there is no audio, you can only see the camera above, and you can see the footage where my son is asking for help, you see the hotel guard is coming too, you see the police are coming, they ask him for information, they try to help him, but when he leaves this reception, The policeman says my son ran away and was never seen again.
Octavio said he plans to return this week to Canada to continue the search for your son and find out what is being done, Because when he visited this country, he saw no progress in the investigation of his case.
This case comes amid a series of disappearances of Mexicans abroad.
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