This is objectively terrible, and at numbers that high I would wonder if there were another factor like being affiliated with insurgent groups and factions vying for power, which are a constant multi-decade problem in those countries. I'd wonder if being affiliated with international climate causes makes you more likely to have a kidnapping ransom paid as well, as there is a lot of local context missing from the article. The stories and data are terrible, but at that level, they must be the effect of a dynamic.

It's also sad that this effects mainly indigenous populations in south america instead of the people who sit in the road and block traffic in the anglosphere, as the consequences seem to fall to the those who have earned the least resentment.