Lia Posada was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Master degree in journalism from the University of Illinois. In this short document, she focuses on the feelings and anguishes of victims of kidnapping. The stories show the reader the true drama that statistics can not describe.
The Centro de Análisis Sociopolíticos is a Non-Governmental institution dedicated to the study and analysis of the social and political problems that beset Colombia. International awarness of the criminal activities of Colombia´s violent insurgency is important. Kidnapping as a means of financing guerrillas activity have been practiced by all the Colombain terrorist groups. That practice has spread to bands of non-political criminals within Colombia and is spreading to other countries.