Pirates and Kidnappers

Well done to the US Navy.

Here is a Columbian example and response, again from The Cocaine Wars 1988

In 1981 , Columbian M19 nationalist guerrillas kidnapped Martha Ochoa, one of the three daughters of Don Fabio Ochoa of the Medellin Cartel.
The Ochoas did not pay. Their response was to call the first ever meeting (in Cali which was one of M19’s main bases) of all of Columbia’s most influential traffickers, all of whom, because of their vast fortunes, were now potential kidnap targets. Hundreds of fliers were distribute throughout Columbia, handed out at intersections and dropped from helicopters into soccer stadiums. Contents included:
“3..the 223 mafia bosses…agreed to finance…$4.4 million …to fight the practice of kidnapping, these resources will be used to pay for rewards, execution of perpetrators, and equipment…
4..we agreed to create a group called “Death to Kidnappers”…
5 Each boss has registered 10 of his best men and, therefore a total of 2,230 individuals will be involved in initial operations…
6..from this date, these individuals…will be carrying out the executions of all those associated with the practice of kidnapping…
7 Kidnappers will be executed in public…
9 directly with information on kidnappings…
11 Those kidnappers arrested by police will be executed in prison, if their whereabouts cannot be established, our people will act on their colleagues or the nearest relatives.
Please do not destroy this communique; exhibit it in public place”The manhunt was exceptionally brutal, even by Columbia’s standards. 3 months after her abduction Martha was relesed unharmed…“ reached an accomodation …whereby M19... performed chores for the traffickers.”

More recently, here is the situation in Mexico. Maybe I won't be in any hurry to go back to Tijuana or do the Baja 1000 - a fading dream.