El Tiempo published this column today, related to the book Out of Captivity, published by former FARC hostages Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves. I totally agree with Natalia Springer. I will translate it as soon as I can.
El sexo de Íngrid
The three Americans who were held hostages by the FARC in Colombia together with Ingrid Betancourt, Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes, criticized her in their book Out of Captivity. (more…)
Without difficulties fortunately ex-gouvernor of the Meta department in Colombia Alan Jara today was released by the leftist guerrillagroup FARC. Alan Jara had been a hostage for 7,5 years. His face is like a dead man’s face, he appears to have lost lots of weight, but mentally he is (or seems?) as strong as an ox. (more…)
Very painful is the news these days about the bad relation between Ingrid Betancourt and Clara Rojas when they were hostages of the FARC. (more…)
Why is Piedad Córdoba hated so much? Piedad, which means mercy or devotion, is a senator in Colombia. She is a member of the Liberal Party and she is a woman who doesn’t fear to express what she thinks. She is one of the so many Colombians who receive death threats any moment.
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My hope to find more about Che Guevara during my holiday in Argentina is not lost. It appears that he moved away with his parents from Rosario because he suffered from asthma.
She thanked the people’s solidarity and its prayers when she arrived in Buenos Aires. In Quito she had proposed a “multinational front” to get the hostages who are still in the jungle free. Ingrid Betancourt is on tour in Latin America.
So strange that she didn’t start with the only leader in the region who really managed to get some of the hostages free: Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez. The rest wasn’t able to do more than show its goodwill. It is not at all easy to negotiate with the FARC and stop this war. (more…)
Ingrid Betancourt, former hostage of the FARC and rescued by the Colombian army in July 2008, left for Europe almost immediately. She was welcomed as a heroine and received several prizes. Chile even proposed her for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I don’t understand. (more…)
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