Family Still Searching for Answers, 8 Years After Kidnapping Expert Was Kidnapped in Mexico
For Lourdes Batista, there is no talking about her husband Felix in the past tense.
“He is an officer and a gentleman. He is a wonderful man,” she told InsideEdition.com. “I’m supposed to say ‘was,’ but I’m going to talk in the present. That’s been one of our problems, that we’ve had no closure. We never got to say goodbye. Not having closure makes it really painful.”
Lourdes has been living with that pain for nearly eight years, when her husband, a renowned expert on anti-abduction, was abducted himself in Mexico.
Eight years later, Lourdes has been paying tribute to the man she calls her soul mate, maintaining that he is not forgotten while holding out hope that she and her loved ones will get answers that so far, no one has been either able or willing to provide.
Felix Batista had traveled to Saltillo, the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila on business when he learned that his friend and colleague Pilar Valdez, the longtime director of security for the Saltillo Industrial Group, had been abducted.
An expert on negotiating kidnappings, Felix was tapped in December 2008 to help secure Valdez's successful return.
"I get a call from Felix. I can tell he’s busy. I call him back and he tells me, ‘honey, I’m really busy; I think there’s a kidnapping taking place. I’ll call you back.’ That was the last time I spoke with him,” Lourdes said.
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Then on December 10, Valdez called Felix as he dined at one of the town’s best restaurants, El Mesón Principal del Norte, saying that he was san appearance on Fox & Friends Monday.
“You are alienating at least 63 million Americans who supported this president last time,” she said. “But you are alienating many more who want the president to succeed. And you are showing the world that you are so easy with an insult about our leader. I think that's really unfortunate, actually.”
But she was pleased with Spicer, saying: “I'm very happy my former White House colleague Sean Spicer is a man of good humor. He's been quoted recently as saying life outside is much more relaxed. So I'm very happy for him. This is something that a lot of folks in Hollywood sometimes lack, which is introspection and good humor."
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