...71, from a 197-name list of nominees, including jailed Chinese dissidents and the recently liberated Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Leaving aside headline-grabbing figures, the committee honored a corpulent former schoolteacher and diplomat known...
...71, from a 197-name list of nominees including jailed Chinese dissidents and the recently liberated Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Leaving aside headline-grabbing figures, the committee honored a corpulent former schoolteacher and diplomat known...
...The former hostage, Ingrid Betancourt, made an emotional appeal to E.U. lawmakers on Wednesday to work for the release of other captives, saying nations must drop long-held taboos against talking with terror groups. She said isolating such groups made...
...so on," she said. "They can change the way a person looks at things and change attitudes." Freed Franco-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt attends a plenary session at the European Parliament, in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 Former hostage Ingrid...
...Sorbonne. Throughout Ingridâs ordeal, top French media advisers donated their services to her family, who organized the Ingrid Betancourt Support Committee. During their 2007 presidential campaigns, Nicolas Sarkozy and his opponent Ségolène Royal both...
...Inspiran October/November feature. The 2008 honorees -- Myrka Dellanos, Mayte Prida, Laura Posada, Maria Elena Salinas, Ingrid Betancourt, Maria D. Roberts and Marisol Gonzalez -- were chosen for their hands-on commitment to important causes in the...
Background
Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio (born December 25, 1961) is a Colombian-French politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist. Betancourt was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on February 23, 2002, and rescued from captivity six and a half years later in Operation Jaque, along with 14 other hostages (three Americans and 11 Colombian policemen and soldiers), by Colombian security forces on July 2, 2008, who tricked the FARC into believing they were a leftist non-governmental organization. In all, she was held captive for 2,321 days after being taken while campaigning for the Colombian presidency as a Green. She had decided to campaign in an area of high guerrilla presence in spite of warnings from the government, police and military not to do so. While her kidnapping received media coverage worldwide this was particularly so in France due to her dual French citizenship.
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