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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 ...
Women Leaders of Europe and the Western Hemisphere
Women Leaders of Europe and the Western Hemisphere offers short biographical entries on women, both famous and obscure, holding the reins of power from ancient times up to the present day on three continents. In addition to these alphabetically and regionally arranged entries, two essays present often astonishing anecdotes concerning many of these forgotten women, bringing them to life and imbuing their stories with all the flamboyance and drama of an epic movie. Its companion book covers women leaders from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific.
Territories of Conflict
This interdisciplinary volume investigates the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grass-root movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media productions.
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.
Hostages
On 1 September 2004, a group of terrorists disguised as repairmen infiltrated a school in Beslan, Russia. Using concealed weapons they took 1100 children and adults hostage. The world looked on aghast as the siege played out on live TV. Hostages tells the incredible and often harrowing stories surrounding real-life events such as the Munich massacre of 1972, the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 and the bloody siege of the Davidian Ranch, Waco, Texas in 1993. Packed full of drama, action and heartbreak Hostages promises to be utterly captivating. Contents: Political Pawns including Aldo Moro, The Iranian Embassy Siege, Terry Waite, Alan Johnston A Question of Insanity including Gary Heidnik, Elizabeth Fritzl, Stephanie Slater, David Kouresh, Mark Dutroux Financial Gain including The Lindbergh Baby, Frank Sinatra Junior, Barbara Mackle, Shannon Matthews
Ingrid Bétancourt - Le courage et la foi
Mercredi 2 juillet 2008. Il est un peu plus de 21 heures quand la nouvelle fait le tour du monde. Après plus de six ans de détention dans la jungle colombienne, Ingrid Betancourt vient d'être libérée.Nul ne peut désormais ignorer son parcours : sa jeunesse protégée, ses études à Sciences Po, son ascension sur la scène politique colombienne, sa candidature à la magistrature suprême, puis son enlèvement par les guérilleros des FARC, le 23 février 2002. Une personnalité se dessine : animée d'une foi intense, courageuse jusqu'à la témérité, rompue aux médias, Ingrid Betancourt se révèle aussi attachée à la Colombie qu'à sa " douce France "...Pourtant, des énigmes dem...
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...
Ingrid
La publication du livre La Rage au cœur fit connaître son auteur, Ingrid Betancourt, en France. Son enlèvement par la dernière guérilla marxiste d’Amérique Latine, les FARC-EP (forces armées révolutionnaires de Colombie, armée du peuple), le 23 février 2002 sur la route de San Vicente del Caguan a transformé la candidate du parti Verde Oxigeno à l’élection présidentielle colombienne en symbole, avec désormais une notoriété internationale, particulièrement dans la sphère francophone. Ingrid Betancourt est l’otage la plus médiatisée des FARC. Cette célébrité ne signifie pas que l’opinion connaisse vraiment la franco-colombienne. La captivité en a fait une victi...
Les secrets de l'Opération Bétancourt
Quelques mois après la libération d’Ingrid Betancourt par un commando d’agents secrets colombiens, ce livre révèle les véritables dessous d’une affaire qui a mobilisé, six années durant, l’opinion publique française et internationale. En se fondant sur quantité de témoignages et de documents inédits, dont les courriels du dirigeant des FARC, Raúl Reyes, retrouvés après sa mort, Jacques Thomet, reconstitue la genèse de l’opération «Jaque» qui a permis le sauvetage de l’otage franco-colombienne, le 2 juillet 2008. Il apporte d’utiles mises au point sur les rôles respectifs joués depuis l’origine par les dirigeants français Dominique de Villepin et Nicolas S...
