“We were not treated badly, but not knowing when we would return home was what mentally tortured us.”

On November 19, 2023, Arturo Zacharias and Marcos Gómez, two crew members of the Galaxy Leader vessel in the Red Sea, were kidnapped by Houthi rebels from Yemen. 25 people from different parts of the world were traveling in this ship. Without knowing that their boat would be part of the war between Israel and Hamas, the young man from Misantla told Image News what happened that day of the kidnapping: “It was very ugly the first days because we d…