A senior television news executive with Venezuela's Globovision has been abducted. Nairobi Pinto, the station's assignment editor, was seized by two masked men as she left her home in Caracas on Sunday (6 April).
Her father, Luis Pinto, also a journalist, pleaded for her captors to "see sense" and release her.
Globovision also called on the kidnappers to free Pinto. Its executives, who accompanied the journalist's family to meet security forces, urged people to use social networks responsibily to avoid "putting our workmate's life in danger."
Kidnappings for ransom are not uncommon in Venezuela. A number of diplomats, businessmen and athletes have been abducted over the past years.
Most are released hours or days after they were taken, but some victims have been killed or died from injuries sustained during their ordeal.
Sources: Latin American Herald/BBC
