MEXICO CITY, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A prominent Mexican lawyer and former presidential candidate was tight-lipped about his seven months in captivity after his kidnappers freed him Monday.
Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, 69, spoke briefly to the news media outside his home in Mexico City, the Los Angeles Times reported. Fernandez De Cevallos was abducted in June from his ranch in Queretaro.
"I want to tell you that I am fine, thank God, that I'm strong and that my life will go on being the same," Fernandez de Cevallos said.
Fernandez de Cevallos is a longtime backer of the conservative National Action Party and ran for president in 1994 as its candidate. The party ended the Institutional Revolutionary Party's decades-long lock on power in 2000.
No information has been released about whether a ransom was paid. News media received a 5,300-word document entitled "Epilogue of a Disappearance" signed by the "Network for Global Transformation."
Fernandez de Cevallos "appeared untouchable until that night when his dark past caught up with him," the group said.
Investigators said the abductors were skilled enough to find and remove a radio tracking chip inserted under Fernandez de Cevallos' skin while they were still at his ranch.
