Perched under fifty kilometers inland regarding Ecuador’s Pacific coast, Hacienda Rodeo Grande are a haven out of peaceful right now of the year. Apples and you will mangoes carefully ripen into woods. With temperature stretching on the 30s, brand new calm landscapes are usually filled up with the latest odor away from jacaranda and you will hibiscus flora regarding the run-up to Christmas time Time. However it is actually here, precisely yesterday, you to definitely former honorary Uk Consul Colin Armstrong OBE was snatched from the 15 guys dressed in fake police clothing at the beginning of a scary and a little surreal kidnapping experience; one that, it could be told you – for example given that the tale keeps the good news is concluded on the 78-year-old’s secure launch – has been torn from the pages regarding a beneficial Graham Greene book. Bundled towards his or her own black BMW during the gunpoint, brand new billionaire business person – formerly called ‘Our very own Guy when you look at the Guayaquil’ – try kidnapped past Tuesday, along with Katherine Paolo Santos, a good Colombian model and you will rod dancer, after discussed of the Ecuadorian cops as his ‘intimate partner’. 자세히 보기