Explanation

This book was written in Colombia, in a year when almost two hundred kidnappings took place; making this criminal act the primary problem that affected the safety of the people who had the money to pay the rescue or occupied an influential position in a community.

For this reason the American authorities counseled American citizens, such as tourists, functionaries or multinational company employees, to assume extreme measures of protection to avoid being kidnapped.

This book was written to help those in danger of being kidnapped reduce this risk anywhere they may be.

Like it did not have attractive white a list of recommendation I adopt this singular way: First it exposure the bad tip, or that the people to want to be kidnapped should be do. And then I present the right advice to avoid it. That well could be, logically to do the contrary to the bad advice before given.

Introduction

Even though to be kidnapped is one of the worst tragedies that can happen to a human being, some personalities were kidnapped because consciously or unconsciously they wanted to be kidnapped, and in order to achieve it they developed bad habits that ended up facilitating their kidnapping.

When I talk about kidnapped personalities, I mean Emperors like Julius Cesar, former Presidents like Aramburo, politicians like Aldo Moro, entrepreneurs like Harold Eder; sculptors like Arenas Betancourt, women like Patricia Hertz, etc. important people right?

Since you are a potential candidate for this kind of adventure, and perhaps you want it to get a tax deduction or show up on newspaper’s first page, you can easily achieve it by following these bad tips.

Of course an intelligent, sensible person will understand the true purpose of these pages: to allow you to evaluate your life habits in order to correct them so you avoid this tragedy that, if not fatal, most of the time will take away your desire to go on living.

Therefore, it is worth it to interpret these 96 tips correctly, take them seriously and go on living in peace.

1  Do not determine your risk

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Something very important for someone’s safety is determining his or her risk factor. This is easy, since we only need to analyze the degree of danger (DD) that hangs over you, take away the current protection level (CPL) and the result will be your risk factor (RF).

   DD                  CPL                     RF

Great       5-4     Good    5-4       High       0-1

Medium   3-2     Fair      3-2       Medium  2-3

Low          1-0     Poor     1-0       Low        4-5

                         DD-CPL=RF

For example, if you are the president of a multi-national oil company, you can assign a value of 5 to your kidnapping degree of danger.

If you have a security officer, travel in an armored vehicle, always have a lead vehicle go in front of you, your bodyguards have been carefully screened, and they are motivated, and well trained.   The weapons, radios, bullet proof vests and vehicles are of excellent quality, and they have life insurance, then give your current protection level a value of 3; in this case if you subtract 3 from 5, you will get 2, which means that there is a medium risk factor.

5-3=2

medium risk factor

However, since your purpose is to be kidnapped, don’t determine your risk factor and that way you will easily succeed.

The stronger your belief that you are under no danger and that your protection is good and, therefore, your risk factor is low, the better chances you will have to be kidnapped. (5)