LatinNews Daily Report - 06 August 2013

SECURITY | US businessman released. On 5 August prominent US businessman, Peter Jackson, who was kidnapped on 2 August in the southern department of Choluteca, was released. Ciriaco Díaz, a spokesperson for the local fire brigade told reporters that Jackson was found wandering on the highway between San Marcos de Colón and Choluteca in the early hours of the morning. Jackson, who owns a hotel in the northern city of San Pedro Sula and shrimp fisheries in Choluteca, is said to be “in good health” although he has since gone for a medical check-up. The local press reported that Jackson had been kidnapped by armed assailants who intercepted his car while he was driving in the San Bernando area. The two people traveling with him were subsequently found tied up inside the vehicle some 5kms from the scene of the abduction. So far the Honduran authorities have yet to reveal whether Jackson’s family paid a ransom for his release.