Leaning back in a chair in his Mexico City office, systems analyst
Roberto Garcia winces as he remembers the phone calls. The commands
were simple. "Pick up the receiver by the second ring or we will beat
your nephew until he bleeds. Fail to make the ransom demand and we
will send him back to you in pieces."
Scooped off the streets of the Mexican capital as he went out for
a hamburger near his home in the modest Iztapalapa neighbourhood, the
youngster was held bound and blindfolded for five weeks. Threatened,
abused and alone as his family scrabbled to pull together 1m peso
(around pounds ...
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Copyright 2004 The Independent on Sunday
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