MEXICO CITY — A former Mexican presidential candidate was freed Monday, more than seven months after his kidnapping. He told reporters outside his Mexico City home that he is well and forgives his captors.
Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, a top Mexican political power broker who ran unsuccessfully for president in 1994, gave no details about his abductors in what was the highest-profile and most brazen kidnapping in Mexico’s recent history.
“As far as the kidnappers are concerned, as a man of faith I have forgiven (them),” he said outside his luxurious Mexico City home. “As a citizen, I think that the authorities have some work to do.”
President Felipe Calderon expressed his joy at the release of Fernandez de Cevallos, 69, a leading member of Calderon’s conservative National Action Party, and promised to use the full force of the law to bring the kidnappers to justice.
