Seeing documentaries like this make one all the more grateful that we live here relatively safe and secure in our homes and cars. There the kidnapping is so rampant that it's given rise to cottage industries such as bulletproof cars, academies for defensive driving, helicopter services which can keep the rich above the lawlessness on the streets, and plastic surgeons who have perfected ways to reconstruct new ears (the most commonly used body part sent to the families of victims).
All of this is also reflected in the ruthlessness of the politicians who steal millions from the country and under Brazillian law can't be prosecuted in civil court because of their "service" to the country, and how these people launder their money through these thriving frog farms.
Lots of information, kind of haphazardly connected and linked, but still eye-opening.