(Ed.'s Note: As reported here last week, the father of former Matamoros Mayor Lety Salazar was kidnapped by unknown gunmen at his place of business and a $50 million peso ransom demanded. That's about $2.5 million in US dollars. The news reports don;t indicate what the actual ransom amount that was paid, but extraofficial sources say that the kidnapping was motivated by some previous victims of the mayor and Luis Alfredo Biasi, her former secretary of social development, reclaiming their properties on the U.S. Side in exchange for his release. Once returned, Ramiro Salazar was said to have been returned to his family after being held for seven days. Above, in a file photo, he is shaking hands with Tamaulipas Gov. Francisco Garcia Cabeza de Vaca.)