"Express" kidnapping for the Envoy to Caracas

Mexico in Venezuela, Carlos Pujalte, Ambassador and his wife were kidnapped Sunday night in Caracas and released four hours later in a good state of health, reported yesterday Monday official sources.

Pujalte kidnapped along with his wife, Paloma Ojeda, "by four heavily armed men" near midnight on Sunday when the couple was leaving a "reception" in a residential area of the North of Caracas, according to a press release from the Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office, which has already begun the investigation of the case.

Released
Pujalte and Ojeda were released in a popular area of West of the Venezuelan capital four hours after being kidnapped and yesterday morning offered their statements to authorities, according to the prosecution.

According to a release from the Venezuelan Government, the Ministry of Interior and justice deployed at dawn on Monday "an operating pool" of the militarized u000aNational Guard, the Bolivarian service of intelligence, and two police forces, "which forced the perpetrators to release the captured".

In fact, the vehicle in which the couple moved was located in another popular area nearby.

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