Spanish → English transcript

What was being shared yesterday on some social media accounts

about a kind of

uh phone scam. They call a plumber, an electrician,

someone who knows a trade, they summon

them to a place usually out of the way, they grab a

ranch from Google Maps and tell them,“ Look, go to this ranch,”

on the way they start getting information, what car you drive,

what shirt you are wearing,

uh if you are going with companions,“ send me a photo of the companions,”

and uh when they reach the deserted place,

they tell the person, “ Look,

we are from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel,

we have you surrounded, we have you kidnapped,

if you want to get free you have to hand over this amount of money,

turn off the phone,”

and they start talking to the family

of the of the of the person and… a small number

Salvadorans have fallen

for those phone scams. These calls are made by a group of cowards who are in

this prison in Cómbita, in Colombia. In this prison, today, right now,

there are more than one hundred one phones on. We have spoken with

police in the Dominican Republic, police from Honduras, from Guatemala,

from Argentina, from Peru, because

the same scheme is also happening in these countries and everything, everything

confirms that those calls that are affecting Latin America are

generated from this prison. In this country

there are no drug cartels

and there are no kidnappings much less

kidnappers. It is all psychological. There is no

evidence at all

of anyone who has come out hurt, injured. What we have to do when we get these

calls is not pay

and simply return to our company,

to our little home, to

to carry on with our activities.