It was in 1998 when Adal Ramones He suffered one of the crudest chapters of his life, as he was the victim of a crime when he was enjoying great popularity on his program Another rollat which time he was the subject of a kidnapping in which he was held captive for a week.
The kidnapping occurred on a Tuesday, the day the remembered nighttime program of Televisa. That afternoon, the driver, who was 37 years old at the time and was about to marry his first wife, Gabriela Valencia, arrived alone at his apartment located in the Narvarte neighborhood, in Mexico City, when a group of unknown subjects pointed at him.
After beating him with the weapon and putting him in his own truck, Adal was taken to a safe house where the kidnappers kept him handcuffed in a closetchained by the ankles, and his ears were covered so that he could not hear anything that was said outside.
That night the program Another roll It started like every Tuesday, however at the beginning of the broadcast Yordi Rosado came forward to explain that for personal reasons Ramones would not appear; at the time the reasons were not given, but later the information began to circulate.
The same driver has declared that he was already mentalized to die at the hands of his captors; however, they made it clear to him from the beginning that they would not hurt him.
So Ramones really wanted whoever was involved in negotiating his rescue was not his close friend Yordi Rosado, since he assured that he would have given everything with full hands in order to rescue him, for which he chose the producer Forest Memofor considering it “more cerebral and cold”.
Now, 25 years after the kidnapping, it has been the director, who worked many years for Televisawho recalled the case and revealed crude details of it.
“It was a strong experience in 1998 (…). Adal’s explanation, when he said it, is that when they say ‘who is going to be the one to negotiate?’, he said ‘Lalo or Yordi’, but he thought (that) it couldn’t be because they are my friends and they are going to break very quickly,’” said Del Bosque in a recent interview with Gustavo Adolfo Infante for the program The minute my destiny changed.
“Adal thought of someone who was more cerebral. He decides that Memo and one day suddenly talk to me and tell me: ‘Hey, Adal is asking you to be the one to negotiate his kidnapping,’ ”the man who was in charge continued in his story. of the Chanel telehit for more than two decades.
It is known that Adal remained captive for a week and that his ransom was paid for by TV: the amount requested for him was USD one million and was absorbed by Emilio Azcarraga Milmo.
“I remember that the house where I lived looked like the movie from the pelican report: all full of cables and telephones. The first call was perfect, at 5 o’clock as we had arranged with one of the kidnappers ”, recalled Memo del Bosque regarding his role as negotiator.
“Thank God Adal came out in 6 days. Then they offered me a job, if I wanted to work with a negotiating group that was behind (the rescue). They were important executives from Mexico who knew each other, they have always had their armor and security equipment, ”he assured.
“On the sixth day I told them ‘I’ve already collected so much wool’ and they told me ‘no, we want more.’ I told them ‘you know what? I just got back from Japan and I have a new camera that I haven’t used, I’ll give it to you too’. The mother lied to me at that moment but there (the negotiation) was closed, ”narrated the man.
“Adal arrived at my house at 5 or 6 in the morning, where we were, and those who were advising me told me: ‘either they ask you for more money, or they kill him or they keep him longer.’ Finally they ended up releasing it, ”recalled Memo del Bosque, who valued the episode as one of the strongest in her life.
