Family, Neighbors of Kidnapped Man Asks Motorists to Donate for Ransom
 Associated Press
| | A dog passes next to a body lying face down by the side of a road in Acapulco, Mexico, Wednesday, May 2, 2007. A paper next to the body was left with a warning to several persons saying: '...you are next, we don't kill women or children. Signed: The Ghosts'. Mexican drug traffickers are waging a campaign by sending messages by using corpses as message boards. (AP/STR) |
Acapulco, Mexico – About 50 friends, neighbors and relatives of a 20-year-old man kidnapped in southern Mexico lined up along a highway with tin cans Saturday, asking passing motorists for donations to help raise the ransom demanded by his captors.
Said Bolivar Calderón was kidnapped from his father's farm in Atoyac, about 40 miles west of Acapulco in Guerrero state, by armed men on Tuesday. The kidnappers left a cousin tied to a tree, and told him they wanted a million pesos (US$92,500) in ransom.
The victim's family and friends – some of holding signs reading “Help Us Ransom Said” – said they had raised only a few hundred pesos, far short of the amount demanded, with their roadside donation requests.
Kidnappings are frequent in Guerrero, a state marked by extremes of poverty and wealth. But in recent months, the problem has been overshadowed by a wave of bloody executions fueled by drug turf battles, which have left 226 people dead so far this year. |
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News Around the Republic of Mexico | May 2007 
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