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Letters to My Mother
Correspondence between politician Ingrid Betancourt and her family, written while she was being held hostage by a Columbian guerilla group. On December 1, 2007, during the arrest of several guerillas in Bogotá, the Colombian police confiscated a short video clip of political hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Accompanying the video was a twelve-page letter, dated October 24, 2007, written by Betancourt to her mother and family. Kidnapped on February 23, 2002, Betancourt has become an international symbol in the struggle for liberty and the fight against barbarity. Before being captured by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), she was a voice of hope for the Colombian people, leading a ...
Even Silence Has An End
Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in Colombia, in 2002 she was taken hostage by FARC, a terrorist guerrilla organisation. She was held captive in the depths of the jungle for six and a half years, chained day and night for much of that time, constantly on the move and enduring gruelling conditions. She was freed and reunited with her children and relatives in 2008. It is Betancourt's indomitable spirit that drives this important and deeply moving book, telling in her own words the extraordinary drama of her capture and eventual rescue, and describes her fight to survive, mentally and physically. As she confronts the horror of what she went through, her story also goes beyond the specifics of her own confinement to offer an intensely intelligent, thoughtful and compassionate reflection on what it means to be human.
Until Death Do Us Part
Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Her father served as Colombia's ambassador to UNESCO and her mother, a political activist, continued her work on behalf of the country's countless children whose lives were being destroyed by extreme poverty and institutional neglect. Intellectually, Ingrid was influenced by Pablo Neruda and other Latin American writers like Gabriel García Márquez, who frequented her parents' social circle. She studied at École de Sciences Politiques de Paris, a prestigious academy in France. From this charmed life, Ingrid Beta...
Captive
On a fateful day in February 2002, campaign manager Clara Rojas accompanied longtime friend and presidential hopeful Ingrid Betancourt into an area controlled by the powerful leftist guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Armed with machine guns and grenades, the FARC took them hostage and kept them in the jungle for the next six years. After more than two years of captivity deep in the Colombian jungle, surrounded by jaguars, snakes, and tarantulas, miles from any town or hospital, Clara Rojas prepared to give birth in a muddy tent surrounded by heavily armed guerrillas. Her captors promised that a doctor would be brought to the camp to help her. But when Rojas ...
The Blue Line
From the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, a stunning debut novel about freedom and fate Set against the backdrop of Argentina’s Dirty War and infused with magical realism, The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one of the world’s most renowned writers and activists. Ingrid Betancourt, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Even Silence Has an End, draws on history and personal experience in this deeply felt portrait of a woman coming of age as her country falls deeper and deeper into chaos. Buenos Aires, the 1970s. Julia inherits from her grandmother a gift, precious and burdensome. Sometimes visions appear before h...
Out of Captivity
On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors--Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell--crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they awoke covered in blood with automatic rifles pointing at their faces. As of that moment they belonged to the Colombian terrorist organization known as the FARC, American captives in Colombia′s volatile conflict that has stretched over the last half century. This harrowing crash and abduction began five and a half years of captivity at the hands of the FARC, as these three men struggled to survive the madness of their surroundings. In OUT OF CAPTIVITY, Gonsalves, Howes, and Stansell recount their amaz...
Cautiva (Captive)
Clara Rojas fue secuestrada en el 2002 por las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) junto a la ex-candidata presidencial Íngrid Betancourt y liberada en el 2008 luego de casi seis años de cautiverio. En su libro Cautiva, Clara cuenta por primera vez la historia de su secuestro, el milagroso nacimiento de su hijo Emmanuel en medio de la selva, el sufrimiento inmenso por haber sido separada de su hijo cuando éste apenas tenía ocho meses de vida, y finalmente el emocionante reencuentro con él tres años después. En este desgarrador relato, Clara revela en detalle el dolor de dar a luz en medio de la selva en manos de un enfermero que antes sólo había atendido a animales, el cansancio de largas caminatas de hasta ocho horas a través de la selva, el miedo de no saber si terminaría viva al final del día, y su amistad con Íngrid Betancourt, que no sobrevivió a la prueba del secuestro. Ésta es también una historia de fe que revela que Clara nunca perdió la esperanza de volver a ver a su hijo y que la ilusión de volverlo a ver fue lo único que la motivó a seguir luchando
No hay silencio que no termine
Un testimonio desgarrador y reflexivo que nos muestra las contradicciones humanas: la dureza, el dolor, la incomunicación y la falta de libertad. El relato de un silencio que termina. " Había perdido toda mi libertad y, con ella, todo cuanto me importaba. Alejada a la fuerza de mis hijos, de mi madre, de mi vida y de mis sueños; con el cuello encadenado a un árbol... en condiciones de la más infame humillación, conservaba, no obstante, la más preciosa de las libertades, que nadie podría arrebatarme jamás: la de decidir quién quería ser." Ingrid Betancourt En 2002 Ingrid Betancourt, candidata a la presidencia de Colombia, fue secuestrada. No hay silencio que no termine es el relato de sus seis años y medio de cautiverio a manos de las FARC. Íntimo, terrible, intensamente personal, este testimonio de su propia aventura no se parece a ningún otro. He aquí un viaje al corazón de las emociones extremas, una meditación sobre la vida, sobre la condición del réprobo y sobre lo que significa ser humano.
Kein Schweigen, das nicht endet
Präsidentin von Kolumbien wollte sie werden, ihr zerrissenes Land versöhnen, der Korruption hatte sie den Kampf angesagt: Ingrid Betancourt wurde zur Hoffnungsträgerin in ihrer Heimat und auch im Ausland, bis sie am 23. Februar 2002 von der linksgerichteten Rebellen-Armee FARC entführt und in den Dschungel verschleppt wurde. In diesem "Gefängnis ohne Mauern" musste sie ausharren, unvorstellbare sechseinhalb Jahre lang der Willkür der Geiselnehmer ausgeliefert. Nun legt sie Zeugnis ab über das, was ihr angetan wurde, wie sie mehrfach versuchte zu fliehen und wie sie unter immer weiter verschärften Bedingungen überlebte. Sie bricht ihr Schweigen und setzt sich der Erinnerung an die Horrorjahre aus, die sie an die Grenzen ihrer Leidensfähigkeit und Widerstandskraft brachten – auf dass die Welt endlich ihr Schweigen breche über die Zustände in Kolumbien. Am Ende findet sie wieder zu sich selbst und schreibt ein aufrüttelndes Buch von großer literarischer Kraft.
Throwing Stones at the Moon
For nearly five decades, Colombia has been embroiled in internal armed conflict among guerrilla groups, paramilitary militias, and the country’s own military. Civilians in Colombia have to make their lives despite the threat of torture, kidnapping, and large-scale massacres—and more than four million have had to flee their homes. The oral histories in Throwing Stones at the Moon describe the most widespread of Colombia’s human rights crises: forced displacement. Speakers recount life before displacement, the reasons for their flight, and their struggle to rebuild their lives. Among the narrators: JULIA, a hospital union leader whose fight against corruption led to a brutal attempt on h...
