The Masters of Hostage Taking

at 5:01 PM Thursday, April 28, 2011


BY: THE HILL


This week, a Paraguayan businessman who was kidnapped by a guerrilla group, the Paraguayan People's Army (EPP, in Spanish), held hostage for 94-days and released pursuant to his family paying ransom, declared to prosecutors how the EPP discussed their ties with Cuba and Venezuela.

According to the newspaper ABC Digital, the guerrilla leaders bragged about their time spent in Cuba and how they purchase weapons in Venezuela.

Predictably, they praised Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez as their role models.

Castro and Chavez are -- after all -- the masters of hostage taking.