Sept 29/10 - Pt 2: Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt

We started this segment with a clip from former Colombian Senator Ingrid Betancourt, trying to find her voice, just hours after she was rescued on July 2nd, 2008.

Ingrid Betancourt spent 2,321 days -- more than six years -- held captive in the jungle of Colombia. And now, after two years of soul-searching, she has written at length about what happened. In 2002, Ingrid Betancourt was campaigning for Colombia's presidency when she was kidnapped by the FARC, a rebel group that has fought a 50-year-long civil war with the Colombian Government.

For the next six years, she was beaten, abused, caged and frequently chained at the neck like a dog. She calls her experience "a medieval tutorial in slavery." Ingrid Betancourt documents her experiences in her new book called Even Silence Has An End. She was in New York City.

Articles: A French Hero's Tale of Survival / Betancourt memoir faces hostile reaction from fellow ex-hostages / Held Captive, yet Clinging to Hope

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