Martín Zenaido Méndez was buried under the rubble for 17 hours in 2017. He relied, out of necessity, in Zita Monserrat Medina, who assured him that she was a support employee of Mayor Clara Brugada / Photos: Especial and Quetzalli González
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MEXICO CITY.
The first time that Martín Zenaido Méndez was a reason to appear in the press was when he was buried for 17 hours under the rubble of the Álvaro Obregón 286 building, which fell in the earthquake of September 19, 2017.
The locksmith took a couple of selfies, so that they would remain as his last images, in case he did not survive … Now he returns to the media arena, but as a victim of a fraud.
Martín Zenaido Méndez still keeps in the memory of his phone the images of his face covered in dust between the pieces of concrete; “I was already resigned to dying, I said ‘no, because this is going to end here'”. Now you don’t want to resign yourself to being the victim of a scam.
Three years after being one of the 28 survivors of 286, he reappeared in the newspaper to denounce Zita Monserrat Medina López, a young woman who takes advantage of an alleged closeness with senior officials of the Morena party and attendance at rallies to take selfies with them.
It has two Facebook pages; in one of them she says that she is a servant of the nation. It has photos with the Head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum; the mayor of Iztapalapa, Clara Brugada; with federal deputy Gerardo Fernández Noroña, senator Martí Batres and the director of the Economic Culture Fund, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, and those are part of the hook with which people are presented as someone with influence.
Martín Zenaido Méndez believed in this person, who first contacted him through Facebook Messenger, and when he gained his trust, he agreed to an appointment with him on Saturday, December 12, in the Iztapalapa city hall with a badge that accredited her as Morena’s member of electoral section 2537 and, in addition, she assured him that she was a support employee of Clara Brugada. He showed him the images with senior leaders of the political institute to gain his trust and charge him 12 thousand pesos, of which seven thousand would be, supposedly, to speed up the procedures to receive a loan of 25 thousand pesos from the Financial Support Program for Family Microenterprises ( also known as credit to the word) and with that he could open a grocery store in the State of Mexico.
The other five thousand pesos would be to expedite the person who could receive a bi-monthly pension of 2,400 pesos for people with some type of disability, such as the one that Martín suffers in one leg after suffering the collapse of the building during the earthquake.
Desperation led the locksmith to believe in the sayings of the 21-year-old, according to the copy of the credential of the National Electoral Institute (INE) that he left as a guarantee of the money he received. In the Iztapalapa mayor’s office, where Zita Montserrat said she worked under Brugada’s orders, there is no record of her, nor in other subordinate agencies in this demarcation.
Excelsior has copies of the documents that Zita Monserrat gave to Martín. Also a welfare card with the number 4915663236937687 and with the supposed NIP: 5612, which she assured that it was from a dead elderly person, but that she distributed among her clients, so that they could charge them. The card is part of the evidence that was delivered to this newspaper.
I never used (the card) either ”, Zenaido assured, in an interview.
The desire of Martín Zenaido is to open the grocery store once the blacksmith shop in which he worked in the Iztapalapa Territory, Acahualtepec Teotongo, where he manufactured benches for public spaces, was looted and his tools and machines sold.
Zita Monserrat gave the indication to Martín Zenaido, through a text message on WhatsApp, to go to Santander bank (Parque Tezontle branch) on January 11 to collect his credit of 25 thousand pesos with a sheet that he had given him.
The surprise for Zenaido upon reaching the window was that, when she wanted to withdraw the funds, the cashier explained that when she entered the barcode, the name that appeared was Cristina León Sulvaran’s and she would have to face the authorities for attempted fraud.
When the police arrived, I told them that I would never do fraud, much less with my original papers, because when I tried to collect the microcredit, I had my voter ID, “explained Martín Zenaido, who had to show the entire conversation, through Facebook and WhatsApp that he had held with Zita Monserrat, to show that he had been scammed.
She did not receive the disability support card either, despite the fact that the young scammer gave her a paper saying that it was already approved and only the delivery of the plastic was pending.
More than anything, I came with you to report this, because I don’t think I am the only one who has been scammed, I am sure there must be more people, “he concluded.
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