1.   Colombian guerrillas regularly kidnap Venezuelan cattle ranchers and businessmen for ransom.

2.   Once, in Africa, guerrillas kidnapped a Western official and demanded money.

3.   Peru now has an equal weighting with Colombia, where guerrillas kidnap investors and attack companies on a regular basis.

4.   That year, leftist guerrillas kidnapped and murdered the head of the family, his great-uncle Eugenio Garza Sada.

5.   These guerrillas have kidnapped hundreds of civilians, among them four American tourists who were on a bird-watching vacation in late March.

6.   An Italian businessman, who was kidnapped by guerrillas in Colombia more than six months ago, has been freed, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

7.   An aid worker in a U.S.-funded program to eradicate drug crops in Colombia is kidnapped by guerrillas, accused of spying for the military, and executed.

8.   Bodo guerrillas kidnapped tea plantation managers and held them for ransom.

9.   Georgian guerrillas kidnapped two Abkazhians in the troubled Ghali district of eastern Abkhazia, a news agency reported Monday.

10.   Guerrillas also kidnap private citizens for ransom, which they use to finance their decades-old insurgencies.