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Q: Venezuela's government said Thursday it has sent its top investigators to solve the kidnapping of Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos, a case that has shaken the nation's elite athletes and focused attention on the country's sharp rise in kidnappings for ransom. 
  
 David Ramos, brother of Washington Nationals' catcher Wilson Ramos, left, opens the gate of his family's home for an unidentified woman in the municipality of Santa Ines in Valencia, Venezuela, Thursday... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2011, file photo, Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos looks up from the dugout at the end of the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds at Nationals... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - In this June 4, 2011, file photo, Washington Nationals' Wilson Ramos looks on during a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix. According to Kathe Vilera, a spokeswoman for Ramos'... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - This 2011 file photo shows player Wilson Ramos of the Washington Nationals baseball team. According to Kathe Vilera, a spokeswoman for Ramos' Venezuelan League team, the Aragua Tigers, four armed... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - This July 6, 2011 file photo shows Washington Nationals' Wilson Ramos hitting a sacrifice bunt to drive in teammate Michael Morse for the go-ahead run in the seventh inning against the Chicago... (Associated Press) 
  
 Police found the kidnappers' vehicle abandoned in a nearby town Thursday morning, said Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami, who called it "a very important find." 
  
 He said anti-kidnapping units led by "the best investigators we have" were dispatched to the area in central Carabobo state and he vowed to rescue Ramos and capture his abductors. 
  
 "We're taking on this investigation with everything we've got," El Aissami said. 
  
 The 24-year-old player, who had just finished his rookie season, was just outside the front door at his home in the town of Santa Ines on Wednesday night when an SUV approached, armed men got out "and they took him away," said Ramos' agent, Gustavo Marcano. 
  
 "The abductors haven't made contact with the family or with anyone," said Domingo Alvarez, vice president of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, in a telephone interview. "We're worried." 
  
 Major League Baseball and the Nationals issued a joint statement that the league's Department of Investigations was working with authorities. 
  
 "Our foremost concern is with Wilson Ramos and his family and our thoughts are with them at this time," the statement said, adding there would be no further comment. 
  
 Ramos is a key young player for the Nationals. As a rookie in 2011, he hit .267 with 15 home runs and 52 RBIs in 113 games. He also threw out 19 of 67 runners attempting to steal a base, a 28 percent success rate that ranked third among qualifying catchers in the National League. 
  
 Washington acquired Ramos from the Minnesota Twins in a trade for All-Star relief pitcher Matt Capps in July 2010. 
  
 He is one of dozens of Venezuelans in the major leagues, and some of their families already have been targeted in a rising wave of kidnappings affecting the wealthy. 
  
 Venezuelan police said that 618 kidnappings were reported in 2009, and the numbers have grown rapidly in recent years. In 1998, when President Hugo Chavez was elected, just 52 kidnappings were reported. Security experts say the real number of kidnappings today is much higher because many cases aren't reported to authorities. 
  
 The wealthy have taken steps to protect themselves; sales of armored cars have soared in the past several years. Bodyguards typically shadow major leaguers when they return to their homeland to play in the winter league. 
  
 "Every major league player has his own security, but we don't know if he had his security there at that time," Alvarez said. He said it's the first time a major league player has been abducted in the country, though other players' relatives have been held for ransom in the past. 
  
 Former Boston Red Sox slugger Tony Armas, who lives in Venezuela, said young players have been taking additional security measures due to the risk of kidnappings. 
  
 "But many of them are careless sometimes. No one seriously thinks that this can happen to us, and much less in a country like ours where people love baseball," Armas said in a telephone interview. 
  
 "Most of us came from humble families. We still have relatives who live in poor areas, we frequent those places and unfortunately the criminals are getting more soulless all the time," he said. 
  
 In November 2009, the 56-year-old mother of Victor Zambrano, who retired after a seven-year Major League career, was rescued in a commando-style operation three days after she was kidnapped. The former pitcher's cousin, Richard Mendez Zambrano, had been kidnapped a few days earlier, and was later killed. 
  
 In June 2009, Colorado Rockies catcher Yorvit Torrealba's 11-year-old son and brother-in-law were kidnapped and released a day later. 
  
 The mother of former player Ugueth Urbina, who was a two-time All-Star pitcher, spent more than five months in captivity until she was rescued in early 2005. 
  
 Venezuela has one of Latin America's highest murder rates, and violent crime has worsened in recent years. As ransom kidnapping has soared, the government passed a revised law in 2009 that stiffened prison sentences for kidnapping and also allows authorities to freeze the banks accounts of victims' families to prevent them from paying ransom. 
  
 Ramos had been training and planned to start playing with his Venezuelan team next week. Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman Melvin Mora, also a Venezuelan, proposed that the Venezuelan league ought to call off its games "until he appears." 
  
 But league president Jose Grasso said that won't happen. "Turning out the stadium lights isn't a solution," Grasso said, calling Ramos' abduction "an isolated event." 
  
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 AP Sports Writers Howard Fendrich in Washington and Ron Blum in New York contributed to this report. 
  
 (This version CORRECTS that Tigers are already playing, next week's game not season opener.) ||||| Police Thursday discovered the four-wheel-drive vehicle armed men used to kidnap Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos, an important clue that the country’s Justice Minister said could help authorities track down the young ballplayer a day after he was abducted from his family’s home. 
  
 The Ramos family had yet to hear from the kidnappers, a close family friend said. But a Venezuelan police Twitter feed reported without elaboration that Ramos is alive. “State law enforcement officials confirm ballplayer Ramos alive,” it said. 
  
 The Nationals and Major League Baseball said the league’s Department of Investigations was working in concert with Venezuelan authorities. 
  
 “Our foremost concern is with Wilson Ramos and his family and our thoughts are with them at this time,” MLB and the Nationals said in a joint statement. The statement said the ballclub and league had “been instructed to make no further comment.” 
  
 The vehicle was found in the town of Bejuma, about 25 miles west of this industrial city in central Venezuela, Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said. 
  
 The vehicle used in Wilson Ramos’s kidnapping has been found and police say the Nationals’ catcher is alive. (Matt Slocum/AP) 
  
 “Right now, we are in an investigative phase, collecting evidence, to try to find him,” El Aissami said. 
  
 El Aissami made his comments just hours after the gunmen arrived at Ramos’s family’s home in the Santa Ines district of Valencia, forced him into their vehicle and sped away. The abduction of the 24-year-old catcher, a promising player who had recently returned to his homeland to play in the winter league, has garnered broad media attention in a country obsessed with its baseball stars and also painfully aware of the growing scourge of kidnappings and other violent crimes. Ramos’s salary is the league minimum, $415,000. 
  
 The justice minister said that evidence-collection teams had been at the scene of the abduction through the evening and that “the best kidnapping investigators” were searching for a lead that would take them to Ramos. 
  
 “We have the duty to find who is responsible and to rescue this countryman of ours, safe and sound,” El Aissami said. 
  
 Outside the Ramos family home, Gustavo Marcano, identified as the ballplayers’ agent, told reporters Thursday morning that the family has had no information and no contact with the abductors. “We have been waiting for information since 7 p.m.,” he said. 
  
 He said the kidnapping occurred about 7 p.m. when three suspects – on Wednesday others close to Ramos said it was four – arrived at the house. “Wilson was with his brother and father, and I understand that the car passed several times, checking things out,” he said. “And when they saw him outside, they took him away.” 
  
 Late Thursday morning, family friend Marfa Mata said on her Twitter account the family had yet to hear from the kidnappers and urged the public to stay calm. 
  
 “We don’t have any information,” wrote Mata, who helped Ramos adapt to the United States when he arrived here to play in the minor leagues for the Minnesota Twins. “The kidnapers haven’t called yet. Please, we must keep calm.” 
  
 The U.S. State Department is monitoring the case but has not been contacted by Venezuelan authorities or Major League Baseball, a State Department spokesman said. Ramos is not a U.S. citizen. “We are certainly aware of the case . . . monitoring it closely,” spokesman Mark Toner said. 
  
 Ramos’s kidnapping was a blow to the Venezuelan baseball league, which is in the midst of its winter season, when a number of Venezuelan players who are on Major League teams return to play in their homeland. The kidnapping of Ramos, the first of a Major League player here, led some Venezuelans to call for the suspension of at least Thursday’s games. 
  
 “Turning off the lights is not the solution,” Jose Grasso Vecchio, the president of the league. “The professional baseball league is not planning it.” 
  
 Grasso Vecchio said that players and administrators were “anguished and saddened” by what had happened. “We are praying for a quick resolution to this case,” he said, “and that he return safe and sound to his home.” 
  
 About a dozen players who played in the Nationals’ organization in 2011, mostly minor leaguers, remained in Venezuela, where they are playing for their winter ball teams. 
  
 Minor league pitcher Ryan Tatusko, one of the Nationals’ players in Venezuela, said the Nationals called him first thing Thursday morning to ensure he was safe. The Nationals are going to inform him “ASAP” if he’s staying or leaving the country, Tatusko said. 
  
 Kidnappings have become a growing problem in Venezuela. Crime in general is a major concern for Venezuelans, who complain that under President Hugo Chavez’s government homicides and drug trafficking have flourished. Cocaine trafficking from Colombia through Venezuela is rife, Obama administration officials say, and big cities like Caracas have become among the most violent in Latin America. 
  
 Kilgore reported from Washington. |||||
A: 
The kidnappers of Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos still haven’t contacted his family, but Venezuelan police have tweeted to “confirm” the ballplayer is alive without providing details. In what officials say is a major breakthrough, they have found the vehicle kidnappers used to abduct Ramos, the Washington Post reports. The country’s justice minister said “the best investigators we have” are working on the case, the AP adds. “Our foremost concern is with Wilson Ramos and his family and our thoughts are with them at this time,” said a statement from Major League Baseball and the Nats. Ramos, 24, had recently returned to his native country to play in its winter baseball league. (He makes the MLB minimum of $415,000 a year with Washington.) Three suspects arrived at Ramos’ house last night at 7pm, his agent says. “Wilson was with his brother and father, and I understand that the car passed several times, checking things out. When they saw him outside, they took him away.”