51.   Families of kidnap victims are often hesitant to notify police because many kidnap gangs are believed to include former or current members of the police or armed forces.

52.   Families of kidnap victims in Colombia often choose not to report the abduction to authorities, preferring to deal directly with the kidnappers.

53.   Families of kidnap victims say they have come to negotiate ransoms.

54.   Garzon, known for his stinging satires of Colombian personalities, also served as an intermediary between leftist rebels and families of kidnap victims.

55.   He is the third kidnap victim to be found dead in recent months.

56.   He served on several occasions as an intermediary between leftist rebels and the families of kidnap victims, and he organized rebel news conferences.

57.   He says the rebels are using it to stage military attacks, stash kidnap victims and profit from drugs.

58.   He said villagers reported seeing the kidnap victim being paraded around by the rebels and suffering a broken arm and swollen feet.

59.   He served on several occasions as an intermediary between leftist rebels and the families of kidnap victims.

60.   He was first taken to the north-central state of Queretaro to lead police to the shallow grave of kidnap victim Raul Nieto del Rio.