On May 6, 1974, a group of students near the Technological Institute of Mérida commandeered a bus with the aim of embarking on an adventure to Cancun. Around twenty young individuals were apprehended near Valladolid by a force of sixty police officers and five officials. They were subsequently transported to a local penitentiary.
These students had planned a tour that included stops at Puerto Juarez, Cancun, Xelha, and Tulum. In the end, the total number of people arrested amounted to 54, comprising 32 men, 16 women, and 6 children.
The governor, responding to the incident, ordered the immediate transfer of the detainees to the penitentiary due to their involvement in the bus hijacking.
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