Family of Miamian Abducted in Mexico to Issue Appeal Casey Woods - Miami Herald go to original
Felix Batista talks to a reporter about the kidnapping trend "attacking the middle class" in Mexico.
The relatives of an American anti-kidnapping expert who was abducted last month in Mexico will make their first public appeal on his behalf Wednesday at a Miami press conference. Felix Batista, who specializes in resolving kidnapping cases, disappeared on Dec. 10 from a restaurant in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. No ransom demand has been made. Coahuila state Attorney General Jesus Torres told the Associated Press that Batista went willingly with his abductors, handing some of his personal belongings to his dining companions and leaving them with numbers to call if anything happened to him. He departed in an unmarked vehicle, and investigators believe he was going to a high-risk meeting of some kind, according to the AP. Batista, a Cuban American based in Miami, was in Mexico to give conferences on avoiding abductions to potential kidnapping targets. He works for the Houston-based security firm ASI Global and is listed as the Latin America expert on their website. cwoods(at)MiamiHerald.com
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