The Mexican blog reported today that its founder, known as Ruy Salgado or “El 5anto”, has been missing for the past six days. "Salgado’s disappearance may be voluntary, but he may have been kidnapped or worse and every day that passes without his reappearing rightly increases the concern about his fate," Reporters Without Borders said. "If he disappeared voluntarily, he would not be the first person to choose temporary silence. More and more journalists are...

The police beat reporter for the Zócalo Saltillo Newspaper, Stephania Cardoso Rodriguez and her two year old son were found alive. It was not reveal where they are and asked the Mexican state security for protection for herself and her family. In brief interview with Denise Maerker, the journalist did not reveal where, or how she came to take shelter, but said that so far it wasn't necessary to take extra security measures to protect their lives. Nervous and choppy voice sent a...

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) - A police beat reporter at a newspaper in northern Mexico and her infant son are missing and they are feared kidnapped, a newspaper official said Tuesday. Reporter Stephania Cardoso works for the El Zocalo newspaper in the city of Saltillo, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) from the U.S. border. She has been missing since Friday, said Eduardo Mendoza, El Zocalo's editor. She was last seen at a party with colleagues Thursday night. Mendoza said she called a...

A retired FBI official told a House subcommittee that the imprisonment of a New York Chasidic Jew in Bolivia is “state-sponsored kidnapping.” Along with the ex-official, Steve Moore, the U.S. House of Representatives human rights subcommittee on Wednesday heard testimony from the family of Jacob Ostreicher, who was arrested a year ago by Bolivian police after it was alleged that he did business with “people wanted in their countries because of links with drug trafficking and...

Nursing a bullet wound but looking healthy, French reporter Romeo Langlois emerged from the jungles of southern Colombia on Wednesday after being held 33 days by the nation’s largest rebel group. Released to an international delegation and brought to the village of San Isidro in the department of Caqueta, Langlois, 35, said the guerrillas shared what little food they had and treated him with respect. “Other than being detained for a month while I was wounded, everything was...

In a telephone call to journalists, a woman claiming to be a Farc member said the rebels were holding Romeo Langlois as a prisoner of war. Her statement appears to contradict a Farc announcement in February saying it was ending its policy of kidnappings. Mr Langlois disappeared while filming troops destroying cocaine laboratories. Prisoner of war A group of journalists covering the disappearance of Mr Langlois said they received a telephone call from a woman who said she belonged to the...

The Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted on its website a statement that not only confirms the abduction of Guillermo Cholele, Costa Rica's Commercial Attaché in Venezuela, but also reports that the kidnappers made a telephone call to the diplomat's home seeking money for his release. "A telephone call to the diplomat's home mentioned a ransom request. It added that he was in a good health condition," said the document issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...

Colombia 's largest rebel group has freed some of the world's longest-held hostages, ending more than a decade of jungle captivity for 10 police officers and soldiers. The captives were released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc, in a long-planned operation overseen by the Red Cross, the Brazilian government and a former Colombian senator, Piedad Cordoba. President Juan Manuel Santos called the release "a step in the right direction, a very important step"...

The Colombian government has forbidden the presence of outsiders during a FARC hostage handover next week, reported local media Wednesday. Colombians For Peace, an NGO that negotiates with the guerrillas and is participating in the handover, had wanted to invite various dignataries, including the vice-president of Ecuador and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu. Bringing outsiders to look on would be highly inappropriate, said Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin. "We do not...

Anonymous IberoAmerica, the Latin American collective within the Anonymous hacktivist group, has called off its operation to expose members of the Zetas narcotics cartel after announcing that a kidnapped Anonymous member was released. The released hostage also reportedly delivered a message: that the Zetas would kill ten people for every name of a Zeta associate released by Anonymous. Anonymous members launched an effort called OpCartel last week after claiming a member had been kidnapped...