December 25, 2008
Anti-kidnapping expert kidnapped
U.S. anti-kidnapping expert was abducted by gunmen in northern Mexico last week, a sign of just how bold this nation’s kidnapping gangs have become.
U.S. security consultant Felix Batista was in Saltillo in Coahuila state to offer advice on how to confront abductions for ransom when he himself was seized, local authorities said.
Unknown assailants grabbed him on Dec. 10, said Charlie LeBlanc, the president of the Houston, Texas-based security firm ASI Global LLC., where Batista is a consultant.
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Well I just heard a bunch of stories on tuesday night about that part of Mexico, apparently the local economy runs on kidnapping money.
My first trip ‘abroad’, summer of 1970, I lived in Saltillo for a chunk of the summer. When I flew back to the States (the return leg of my first-ever flight), I encountered a premonitory version of the ‘security’ protocol to which all we air travelers must needs submit lo-these-many years after, courtesy of Richard M. Nixon’s Operation Intercept. That was the first wave of the heart-wrenchingly destructive Thirty Years War (and More) on Drugs that has brought bloody hell to a country I love.