This route may entail flying to Ecuador (taking advantage of that nation's liberal visa policy), and attempting to cross the gap on foot. The journalist Jason Motlagh was interviewed by Sacha Pfeiffer on NPR's nationally syndicated radio show "On Point" in 2016 concerning his work following migrants through the Darién Gap. The Darién Gap was subject to the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which has undergone an insurgency against the Colombian government. FARC rebels were present on both the Colombian and Panamanian sides of the border. In 2000, two British travelers, Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, were kidnapped by FARC in the Darién Gap while hunting for exotic orchids, plants for which Dyke has a particular passion. The two were held captive for nine months and threatened with death before eventually being released unharmed and without a ransom being paid. Dyke and Winder later documented their experience in the book "The Cloud Garden" and in an episode of "Locked Up Abroad". Other political victims include three New Tribes missionaries, who disappeared from the Panamanian side in 1993. In 2003, Robert Young Pelton, on assignment for "National Geographic Adventure" magazine, and two traveling companions, Mark Wedeven and Megan Smaker, were detained for one week by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a far-right paramilitary organization, in a highly publicized incident. In May 2013, Swedish backpacker Jan Philip Braunisch disappeared in the area after leaving the Colombian town of Riosucio with the intention of attempting a crossing on foot to Panama, via the Cuenca Cacarica. The FARC admitted to killing him, having mistaken him for a foreign spy.