Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt's latest novel is set in Buenos Aires during Argentina's Dirty War of the 1970s. 

Ingrid Betancourt's latest novel is set in Buenos Aires during Argentina's Dirty War of the 1970s. 

A little over two years ago, Ingrid Betancourt,  former candidate for the Presidency of Colombia, was freed in a dramatic military rescue mission after six years of being held hostage. She and other hostages, incluing three Americans, had been taken captive by narco-terrorists known as the FARC rebels.

She wrote a poetic account of those six years in her book, Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle.

A little over two years ago, Ingrid Betancourt,  former candidate for the Presidency of Colombia, was freed in a dramatic military rescue mission after six years of being held hostage. She and other hostages, incluing three Americans, had been taken captive by narco-terrorists known as the FARC rebels.

She has written a poetic account of those six years in her new book, Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle.

Ingrid Betancourt talks about her abduction by the FARC while campaigning for the Colombian presidency, and the experience of being held hostage for more than six and a half years.