World's Most Dangerous Places author Robert Young Pelton describes his ten day ordeal as a captive of a right-wing paramilitary group in the Panamanian jungle.
Do you feel lucky that you came out of it alive?
It's not really luck. You're in a certain mindset when you're kidnapped. You want to win the respect of your captors, so they drop their guard. You want to make sure that you're always aware of what's going on. And you want to make sure that, should the moment arrive, you can escape. Because you are being held by people who chop up people with machetes. These are not boy scouts.
