“My uncle needs vital medicine”: relatives of a businessman kidnapped in Pailitas, Cesar

On December 29, the businessman Gabriel Angel Rincon Serrano he mobilized togetheror with his wife and the son of the manager of his farm between Tamalameque and Pailitas, Cesar, in the village of Tutumitonear the township of Zapatosa, when four heavily armed men took him out of the car and kidnapped him.

Rincón Serrano, 75, needs vital medicine daily. For this reason, Carlos Rincón Sarmiento, Executive Director of the Santander Cattlemen’s Federation, and who is the nephew of the kidnapped businessman, wanted to send a message to the men who have deprived him of his liberty.

“He is an insulin-dependent patient and is hypertensive, he needs to applye every day your dose of insulin and take the medicine for tension, that is our concern at this time, ”he said.

Carlos Rincón reported that the drugs that his uncle takes are insulin from an injectable pen (1 daily dose), valsartan 80 mg. (half in the morning and half at night) and 0.05% latanoprost for glaucoma management.

“We are in prayer and doing everything possible to generate the release of our uncle. We have faith in God and in all the institutions of the public force. I want to remind the captors that Gabriel Rincón has been a hard-working person, a very correct, very neat person who has generated progress and dynamism in the livestock and palm oil sector in the Pailitas area and we ask for his prompt release because he is an elderly person,” said the executive director of the Santander Cattlemen’s Federation.

It is the second time that this family has suffered from the scourge of kidnapping. In the year 2000 Joel Rincon, elected mayor of Pailitas, was kidnapped and murdered in the area.

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