Swedish man kidnapped in Cordoba

kat1 (Moderator) says on May 18, 2007, 10:19:

Tierraalta is a very Tierralta is a very dangerous area, i met a woman whos mother was from there and was kidnapped and murdered, it used to be full of guerrillas, afterwards by Paras, but as far as I know I think the paras left the area and maybe the guerrillas return I am not sure..

Desideria (Moderator) says on May 18, 2007, 10:25:

These people just don't listen they think that nothing bad can happen to them, just because they're Swedes and come from a neutral, socialdemocratic country with a good international reputation of fairness and non-involvement. The wife should've known better, even if her Swedish husband didn't. I don't know these people, at least by name, did the article say where in Sweden they were from?

Cheers,
Desi

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe
they are free." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Desideria (Moderator) says on May 18, 2007, 10:30:

ok, they were living in Colombia There were a couple of Swedish guys that were kidnapped a few years ago in Colombia, also working at the construction of a hydroelectric plant, one of them was married to a Colombian woman the other one toan Ecuadorian woman. Both of them were released and chose to stay in Colombia. Could this be the same guy?

Cheers,
Desi

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe
they are free." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Atrevido says on May 19, 2007, 12:58:

The Cali paper El Pais reports she was his novia and they were taken out of their finca and taken away in their own vehicle by paras. Also that the plan may be to sell them to the FARC.

Desideria (Moderator) says on May 19, 2007, 13:16:

The Stockholm paper reported her being his common-law wife. There hasn't been a lot of additional information, but it looks like it wasn't a road block and that they were taken from their home. It's also not confirmed if he had worked for the Swedish company Scania when they built a hydroelectric plant in Colombia and two of their engineers were kidnapped and later released by the Farc.

Cheers,
Desi

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe
they are free." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

juancegomez says on May 20, 2007, 10:37:

Wife apparently freed Mayo 20 de 2007

Liberan a esposa de ciudadano sueco secuestrada en Tierralta

Se trata de Diana Peña Algarín, de 36 años de edad, que había sido secuestrada junto con su esposo el pasado 16 de mayo. Eric Roland Larson, de 68 años, sigue plagiado.

Después de cuatro días de secuestro, Diana Peña Algarín, de 36 años de edad, quedó en libertad. Voceros de la Brigada 11 del Ejército con sede en Montería, informaron que la señora obtuvo su libertad y llegó hasta un paraje de Córdoba donde fue recogida por tropas de la brigada.

Peña había sido secuestrada el pasado 16 de mayo junto con su esposo, el ciudadano sueco Eric Roland Larson, de 68 años, quien permanece en cautiverio.

Voceros militares aseguraron que no han determinado aún quiénes son los responsables de este plagio ocurrido en la finca Cielito Lindo de Tierralta, Córdoba, hasta donde llegaron siete hombres armados con fusiles y se llevaron a la pareja.

En pocos minutos se realizará una rueda de prensa para contar los detalles de la liberación.

http://www.eltiempo.com/nacion/caribe/2007-05-20/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR-3563306.html

Miguel_Clavo says on May 20, 2007, 11:48:

you are soooooooooo latino lovefreeordie....latino by injection? or by marriage??? i hope we dont have another gringo who thinks he is latino.....they sure are odd ducks....=)

Just my opinion...

Miguel_Clavo =)..aka, DragonSlayer..2-0..Colombia es pasión!

"I would rather die living life, than to live a dying life."........ Oh, and my PM is always ON. Great Bumper Sticker: "Home of the Free, Because of the Brave"

tomtom33 says on May 20, 2007, 11:55:

This Gringo bobo merely follows the customs in his adopted country. If every guy in Colombia who fooled around with a gal 30 years his junior were nabbed, there would be a lot of Colombianos in that group.

Miguel_Clavo says on May 20, 2007, 12:23:

and why would their ages matter to anyone? it is their business and noone elses..miserable people expect others to do the same as them and be miserable as well....i say more power to those guys and girls....it is their business only.....and i would guess that those types of relationships with large age gaps would only be increasing in this millenium...not decreasing...despite of what others think....so it looks like the kidnappers have their work cut out for them....

.Just my opinion...

Miguel_Clavo =)..aka, DragonSlayer..2-0..Colombia es pasión!

"I would rather die living life, than to live a dying life."........ Oh, and my PM is always ON. Great Bumper Sticker: "Home of the Free, Because of the Brave"

kat1 (Moderator) says on May 20, 2007, 12:28:

what age have to do with the kidnapping? i would not wish for anyone to be kidnapped, it is a horrible experience.

cayita says on May 20, 2007, 15:16:

Can't understand why he would think he is not kidnappable in that region in particular or anywhere else for that matter. He must have had money and that really is enough with these people.

Anyway what I smell is that her family is probably somewhere in this thing. She is set free? I guess she had access to his money.

In Colombia when you operate in the countryside in businesses or whatever you have to be careful who you give access to your money.

Some advice for gringos and I am refering to Sweden folk or anyone else. If you are marring a woman 30 years to your minor maybe she loves you? Maybe not, maybe her family doesn't like this. But this whole biz about these girls loving you for you is bull I think. In other words I don't know any women here that would love a man 30 years her major. NONE. These girls marring a man for 30 years her major is done for money.

That is it so best to ignore all this talk about Colombian men do it to. Of course they do. They have women their minor but they don't love them or expect her to love him. This is what you call a trophy wife and little more among Colombians. They would never trust this woman, never and she will never give her heart to him.

If you want to marry a woman 30 years or even 20 years your minor you better not give her access to your money or she too will be the one set free while they hold you. If you have access to your money they will keep her and let you go. Just how it works.

Most likely a brother or relative pulled this one off and the guy is at the bottom of some canyon somewhere.

tomtom33 says on May 20, 2007, 15:24:

Damn good thing I'm only 19 years older than my novia of 3 years. I didn't know that I risked such a fate had I dated someone 11 years yournger than she is. And I have.

Miguel_Clavo says on May 20, 2007, 15:31:

Damn, TT33!!! 19 years!!! dont you know there are people in the world who dont approve of that!!!!!


Just my opinion...

Miguel_Clavo =)..aka, DragonSlayer..2-0..Colombia es pasión!

"I would rather die living life, than to live a dying life."........ Oh, and my PM is always ON. Great Bumper Sticker: "Home of the Free, Because of the Brave"

cayita says on May 20, 2007, 15:37:

well tomtom now you do...

tomtom33 says on May 20, 2007, 15:54:

Thank you, gentlemen. I didn't know that. I had better start conforming.

medefockinllin says on May 20, 2007, 17:30:

The wife did it.......in exchange for In exchange for all the times she had to listen to ABBA, drive a Volvo, and having her vulva tapped by some wrinkling old perv with nothing more than a crispbread and two small swedish meatballs for genetalia.

Robert Jorge says on May 20, 2007, 17:33:

What's wrong livefreeordie? Are you all hung up about other people's ages because your ex was 30 years your senior? Did he treat you bad?

Ctg Bound says on May 20, 2007, 17:47:

tomtom33 Just give your money to me, I will look after it so that your young girlfiend doesn't steal it.

Gomezman5 says on May 20, 2007, 18:10:

I'm still waiting for someone to say that it was the Swedish guys fault that he got kidnapped. That's how these threads play out. I guess it has already been said. The guy married some chick 30 years younger than him. So that's the lesson. If you are going to marry a girl that much younger than you, than marry her and take her ass out of Colombia......which is something I think most people do anyway.

On the other hand, if you decide to stay, you now know that some hotties not only want your money, but they want to get rid of you at the same time. How convenient.....

webmanco says on May 20, 2007, 19:47:

Keep waiting have a seat

But, I'm going to start making some assumptions here.... Which means I might actually end up making an ass out of myself ..........Thu 04 17, 2008 11:34 am

medefockinllin says on May 20, 2007, 20:12:

Basically, this kidnapping story is equivalent to 1) the swedish guy buying a copy of guns and ammo
2) selecting a weapon
3) ordering the bullets
4) loading the bullets himself
5) raising the loaded gun to his temple
6) cocking the gun
7) pulling the trigger, while standing on top of a very tall cliff with a pirahana infested lake at the bottom

talk about asking for trouble....should have just been satisfied with browsing through a copy of Readers Wives...dirty old perv

kat1 (Moderator) says on May 21, 2007, 00:20:

Erick Ronald Larsson, forest engineer, he is 68 years of age and for 10 years resides in Tierralta. he came to the country part of the foreigners' 'legion' contracted for the construction of the hydroelectrics Urrá.

Two of his countrymen who also were employed at construction, Tommy Tirving and Danny Appelgate, were equally kidnapped. The case happened in 1994 and the authorities attributed it to to the Farc. The Swedishes were liberated in the region of the Urabá antioqueño.

I don't think this have nothing to do with age or wife...
go and learn a little bit about the area Urra and tierralta and you will see that is like the gap of darien, Dangerous.
As i mentioned the mother of one of my friends had a cattle farm there, she was kidnapped and murdered. it went a bit quiet when th Paras came, but now that they left I think the guerrillas are returning and taking control of the area as before,

gringolondinense says on May 22, 2007, 06:30:

kat makes any subject sound sexy :-)

Atrevido says on May 23, 2007, 05:14:

Quite Right Quite right. Although you never really know for sure, whatever else they might be the paracos are generally not a danger to foreigners either visiting or resident. I´ve sat with another foreigner next to a table full of them at a panaderia on several occaisions and they never paid us any attention. On the other hand I´ve never heard of foreigners being able to reside unharmed in a FARC area. If they don´t kidnap him outright they will extort him to the point where he can´t stay. This happened to someone I´m aquainted with.

JMCana says on May 23, 2007, 05:30:

It happens - stop it happening It does not matter where the guy is from or how old he is or how old is wife is or which group took him. The bottom line is that it happened in Colombia and it happens more times than it should. It gives the country a bad name and reduces tourism dollars. Colombia has made progress with the roads becoming safer over the last few years. Now concentration needs to be put on reducing these type of incidents and reducing the bad publicity.

cayita says on May 23, 2007, 06:04:

honestly I still can not travel the roads here at night without an element of fear. When I was in the states I was so at peace on the roads. Just watching for police and for crazy drivers but no fear of running into a road block if I took a side road at night, either from bandits or whoever.... Hopefully one day this will leave me. But as of now it has not. To be clear things are safer here and I am enjoying that added security in my travels through the countryside. I just wish it was without any worry. It is not yet but one day old memories hopefully will be able to slip away and a new generation will be free of this.

I still think this kidnapping was an inside job. The FARC could have taken him anytime unless he was paying the AUC for protection and that protection went away as Kat suggested. This is possible I guess just not sure why they waited so long?

Atrevido says on May 23, 2007, 07:18:

Cayita I don´t know how old you are but the only active and dangerous guerrilla group in all of South America isn´t going to even deminish in your lifetime. I´m sure you´ve been following the story of Jhon Frank Pinchao who reported that the secuestrados are chained together by the neck every night. These people are animals with no human values whatsoever. The only good news I´ve read is that their bullets are costing them more.

ranger_red_lookout says on Jun 29, 2007, 23:57:

Kat1 is right. age,sex,it don't matter kidnapping is something i wouldn't wish on anyone.