Perched less than 50 kilometers inland out-of Ecuador’s Pacific coast, Hacienda Rodeo Grande is a paradise away from peaceful nowadays of year. Bananas and you can mangoes softly ripen on the woods. And with heat extending towards 30s, the new relax gardens are filled up with this new scent out-of jacaranda and hibiscus flowers from the run-up to Christmas Day. Nonetheless it is here, exactly yesterday, you to definitely former honorary British Consul Colin Armstrong OBE is snatched of the fifteen dudes wearing bogus cops clothing at the outset of a terrifying and you will quite unique kidnapping ordeal; one which, it could be told you – for example since the tale enjoys thankfully finished for the 78-year-old’s safer discharge – has been torn straight from the pages out-of a good Graham Greene novel. Included on his very own black colored BMW within gunpoint, new billionaire entrepreneur – previously called ‘Our very own Guy into the Guayaquil’ – are kidnapped history Saturday, in addition to Katherine Paolo Santos, a beneficial Colombian design and rod dancer, later on demonstrated by Ecuadorian cops since his ‘intimate partner’. The latest large-a took yet another strange change whenever, just instances following kidnapping, Ms Santos turned up at the an effective gated property believed to fall-in in order to Mr Armstrong’s child Nick, dressed in what she told police is actually a great vest filled with explosives which could blow-up in the event the a ransom money to totally free Mr Armstrong wasn’t repaid into unlawful gang trailing his kidnapping. Continue reading