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	Ingrid Betancourt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio (born December 25, 1961) is a Colombian senator and anti-corruption activist.
		Ingrid Betancourt was one of them and, when denied (for her own safety) transport aboard a military helicopter that was heading to the zone, decided to head into the DMZ by herself together with her presidential running-mate Clara Rojas.
		However, relatives of Ingrid and most FARC kidnapping victims have come to strongly reject any potential rescue operations, in part due to the tragic death of the governor of Antioquia department, Guillermo Gaviria Correo, his peace advisor and several soldiers, kidnapped by the FARC during a peace march in 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ingrid_Betancourt (1140 words)

	02.25.02: Ingrid Betancourt Kidnapping
		Betancourt, the candidate of the Partido Verde Oxígeno (Green Oxygen Party), was traveling to the city of San Vicente del Caguan for a human rights rally when she was abducted.
		"Ingrid Betancourt is an eloquent, passionate, and courageous spokesperson for peace in her country," said Tod Sloan, co-chair of the International Committee of the Green Party of the United States.
		Ingrid Betancourt had defied warnings from the Colombian government in traveling through a war zone, but the government declined to provide protection that she had requested in preparation for the trip.
	www.gp.org /press/pr_02_25_02.html (537 words)

	Ingrid Betancourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician must be released...
		Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio (born December 25 1961 in Bogotá;) is a Colombian senator and anti-corruption activist.
		Ingrid decided to return to Colombia (date?) and do something to help the country as a consequence of the murder of a candidate to the presidency fighting against drug trafficking.
	www.wikiverse.org /ingrid-betancourt (742 words)

	THE KIDNAPPING OF INGRID BETANCOURT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is the story of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt who was kidnapped on 23 February 2002 by the FARC (the largest guerrilla army in Colombia) and her family’s desperate attempts to free her and keep her political dream alive.
		In this documentary, Ingrid Betancourt tells her own life story, how she gave up a life of privilege to embark on a dangerous fight against political corruption in her native Colombia.
		Ingrid is one of the thousands of victims of Colombia’s 40-year-old civil war.
	www.filmstransit.com /betancourt.html (218 words)

	Movie Review - Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt, The - eFilmCritic
		Ingrid Betancourt, the child of diplomats, has dedicated her life to fighting corruption within the Colombian government and bringing the peace her country so longs for.
		The footage of Betancourt yelling into a microphone (declaring the corruption of the party she belonged to) and being booed off the stage is chilling.
		What no one could know is that Ingrid, along with her campaign manager Clara and only three months from the election, would be captured by one of the guerilla groups while trying to bring about a peace accord.
	www.efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=6796&reviewer=44&printer=1 (670 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Kidnapped: Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt
		Ingrid Betancourt's apartment clings to the side of a mountain in an upmarket suburb of Bogotá;.
		Betancourt, travelling in an armoured jeep with her campaign manager, Clara Rojas, her driver and two journalists, was stopped by a Farc group on their two-hour drive between the airport at Florencia and San Vicente.
		Betancourt was a friend of the French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin - he had taught her at university in Paris 20 years earlier.
	www.guardian.co.uk /women/story/0,3604,1152122,00.html (1621 words)

	FARC says Ingrid Betancourt is healthy : Melbourne Indymedia
		Betancourt was kidnapped by this guerrilla group on February 23, 2002.
		Reyes pointed out that in Betancourt's case, as in the case of some twenty-odd kidnapped political leaders, the only possible way to gain their freedom is by way of an exchange.
		Juan Carlos Lecompte, Ingrid Betancourt's husband, said he was satisfied with the FARC statement, although he complained about the lack of interest on the part of the government in reaching an agreement for her liberation.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=46337 (627 words)

	THE KIDNAPPING OF INGRID BETANCOURT presented by Cinemax Reel Life
		THE KIDNAPPING OF INGRID BETANCOURT chronicles Betancourt's controversial political career, drawing on radio interviews she gave on a U.S. book tour just prior to her abduction, as well as employing newsreel and archival footage, and interviews with family and colleagues.
		Betancourt is represented in the Plaza by a cardboard torso - carried in the arms of her husband and mother, Yolanda Pulecio.
		THE KIDNAPPING OF INGRID BETANCOURT is produced and directed by Victoria Bruce and Karin Hayes; edited by Geof Bartz, Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce; original music, George Shaw, Simon Gentry and Jeff Thomson; photography, Cesar Pinzón; sound, Mauricio Mesa and Humberto Pinzón;.
	www.cinemax.com /reel/ingrid_betancourt/synopsis.html (653 words)

	Kidnapped: Colombian Politician Ingrid Betancourt
		Ingrid Betancourt's apartment clings to the side of a mountain in an upmarket suburb of Bogotá.
		Betancourt herself erupted on to the Colombian political scene in 1994, when, frustrated with drawing up reform programmes for corrupt and ineffectual politicians, she decided to stand for congress herself.
		The Aids epidemic was spreading, and Betancourt drew a parallel between Aids and the corruption that was eating away at Colombian democracy.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/2-19-2004-50772.asp (562 words)

	Ingrid Betancourt
		Ingrid Betancourt, who was made honorary citizen of Souh Dublin County in 2002, was remembered on 19 November.
		At 4.30 p.m., Mayor Robert Dowds of South Dublin County presided at a outdoor ceremony in support of Ingrid Betancourt when a granite stone was unveiled at the base of a tree in the grounds of the County Hall, Tallaght, Dublin 24, Ireland.
		She spoke of the desperation of the families of the hostages in the face of the unwillingness of President Uribe to begin negotiations with FARC.
	www.educweb.org /IngridTeam/Events/Ireland19nov04.htm (417 words)

	The kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt and Clara Rojas
		The kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt and Clara Rojas
		Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped on February 23 by FARC, the principal guerrilla movement in Colombia.
		Ingrid is an activist who is seriously committed to the welfare of the Colombian people and to the ideals of justice and social peace; for this reason her political actions while free are of great value to the just causes of all Colombians.
	www.greens.org /ingrid/ingrid_background.htm (12220 words)

	Until Death Do Us Part - Ingrid Betancourt - Mobipocket eBooks
		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.
		From this charmed life, Ingrid Betancourt -- not yet thirty, happily married to a French diplomat, and a mother of two children -- returned to her native country in the late 1980s.
		Forced to move her children out of Colombia for protection against death threats, Ingrid Betancourt remained and continued to fight the political structure that has crumbled under the destructive power of the paramilitary forces, the financial omnipotence of the drug cartels, and the passivity of government-for-sale.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/96713-ebook.htm (819 words)

	Powell's Books - Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia by Ingrid Betancourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From this charmed life, Ingrid Betancourt — not yet thirty, happily married to a French diplomat, and a mother of two children — returned to her native country in the late 1980s.
		Forced to move her children out of Colombia for protection against death threats, Ingrid Betancourt remained and continued to fight the political structure that has crumbled under the destructive power of the paramilitary forces, the financial omnipotence of the drug cartels, and the passivity of governmentfor-sale.
		From this charmed life, Ingrid Betancourt - not yet thirty, happily married to a French diplomat, and a mother of two children - returned to her native country in the late 1980s.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=91-0060084847-0 (880 words)

	Ingrid Betancourt Support Committee - Home
		But, then, on Feb 23 en route to San Vincente, Ingrid and Clara Rojas, her campaign manager, were abducted by FARC (The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).
		Ingrid and her campaign against corruption are the nightmare of those who are ruining Colombia on the back of Colombians.
		Today Ingrid might not be alive, if it were not for her fame outside of her country.
	www.4ingrid.com /main/accueil.htm (392 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Betancourt's memoir is intelligently written, if occasionally sentimental, and she passionately and clearly describes the consequences of corruption and the dangers of combating it.
		Ingrid Betancourt chose to insert herself into a political climate in Columbia that is rife with corruption, flmail, intimidation, and sometimes, murder.
		On February 23, 2002, Ingrid was kidnapped by the Marxist rebels operating in the jungles of Columbia as she attempted to bring her message of justice and peace to the disenfranchised Columbian people living in the rural and desperately poor areas of the country.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060008903 (1007 words)

	COLOMBIA: The Truth Behind Ingrid Betancourt 'Rescue Mission'
		According to the sources, Uribe himself told Yolanda Pulecio and Astrid Betancourt -- Ingrid's mother and sister -- that a campesino (peasant farmer) had been contacted by FARC to say that the hostage was seriously ill and that they would hand her over.
		Betancourt's husband Juan Carlos Lecompte, who has taken over the leadership of the former presidential candidate's Green Oxygen Party since her capture, admitted that he was familiar with the events described to IPS.
		Betancourt, 42, a former senator who ran for president in the May 2003 elections even though she was already a FARC hostage at the time, has been declared an honorary citizen of 1,000 cities around the world, most of them in France.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=22510 (1561 words)

	Ingrid Betancourt Canadian Support Committee - The latest news
		Ingrid Betancourt's mother received a phone call from a doctor who was requisitioned by the FARC to treat Ingrid.
		Clara Rojas, the long-time friend and campaign director of Ingrid Betancourt who declined to be freed by her kidnappers to remain with Ingrid betancourt, is alive and apprently well, according to a video shown on Colombian TV tonight.
		In this video, Ingrid Betancourt mentions last May's daeth of Medellin Governor, Guillermo Gaviria and of the ex-minister of defense Gilberto Etcheverri, executed by the FARC following a rescue attempt by the Colombian army; It is the sole indication that allows to date the tape.
	www.4ingrid.com /main/nouvelles.htm (2758 words)

	NEW MESSAGE FROM INGRID BETANCOURT BROADCAST ON COLOMBIAN TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In her televised message, Ingrid seemed to ask for a military rescue operation, but cautioned the government that if a rescue is attempted, it should be carefully planned with the likelihood of success.
		Ingrid Betancourt, the celebrity hostage of left-wing guerrillas in Colombia, was shown alive and well -- and as pugnacious as ever -- in a videotape released by her captors at the weekend.
		Mme Betancourt, 41, who holds French and Colombian citizenship, was kidnapped by the guerrillas while campaigning as the Green candidate in the country's presidential election in February last year.
	www.bronxgreens.org /ingrid5.html (931 words)

	village voice > news > Press Clips by Cynthia Cotts
		The left-wing guerrillas, or FARC, kidnapped 40-year-old Betancourt because of her high profile, and they are holding her and an estimated 200 other hostages, whom they hope to release in exchange for guerrillas currently being held by the government, sometime after the presidential election on May 26.
		Though Betancourt is trailing in the polls, her central platform, eliminating government corruption, is one that sorely needs to be addressed.
		Interested parties are encouraged to send e-mail to ingridporlapaz@hotmail.com, expressing support for Betancourt's policies and calling on Pastrana to hold off on military escalation that could endanger her life and those of the other hostages.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0210/cotts.php (960 words)

	The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In a nation scarred by civil strife, Ingrid Betancourt was an impassioned voice against Colombia's corruption.
		But in the midst of her 2002 presidential campaign, Ingrid's voice was silenced when she was kidnapped by leftist guerilla forces.
		This riveting film documents Ingrid's life in politics up to her disappearance, then follows her family's desperate quest to free her and keep her political campaign alive.
	www.wmm.com /kidnapping (72 words)

	Ingrid Betancourt \| Colombia Guide
		Betancourt is most likely dependent on the fate of most kidnapped Colombians, and has extended their efforts to the liberation of all those held captive, promoting international links of solidarity to achieve this purpose.
		Betancourt's motivations (of which I am also suspicious, I'm no big fan of her either), but the actions (or inaction) of the current administration regarding citizens kidnapped by the FARC and ELN.
		The situation of Ingrid Betancourt and all the other people held in captivity in Colombia is an issue that is going to backfire on the popularity of President Uribe sooner or later.
	poorbuthappy.com /colombia/node/1535 (6572 words)

	Held for one year, kidnapped senator Ingrid Betancourt symbolizes Colombia's unending violence
		Betancourt herself was a presidential candidate in the May elections that brought Uribe to power.
		In her memoirs published last year, Betancourt, 40, made it clear she was willing to take risks in her struggle to make her embattled homeland a safer, less corrupt place.
		The daughter of a diplomat, Betancourt spent most of her youth in Europe, studied political sciences in Paris and married a French diplomat.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/849804/posts (758 words)

	INGRID BETANCOURT RECEIVES GERMAN GREEN PARTY AWARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Ingrid shares many ideas with them, as far as that in Colombia must establish an agrarian reform, along with a re-distribution of land, of wealth and of power," indicated Lecompte.
		The distinction, which comes with 10,000 Euros, was given to Betacourtís husband at the ecological Heinrich Boell Foundation before hundreds of political personalities, defenders of human rights, and the culture and diplomatic representatives of several continents.
		Lecompte criticized the government of President Alvaro Uribe as "having completely abandoned on the part of the State" the case of the kidnapping of his wife of 40 years, leader of the Colombian Green Party.
	www.bronxgreens.org /ingrid2.html (312 words)

	CNN.com - Husband of kidnapped Colombian candidate vows to continue campaign - February 28, 2002
		Colombian rebels kidnapped Betancourt, 40, a mother of two and leader of a small centrist party, on Saturday.
		A FARC commander said Monday that the rebels would free Betancourt and the others if the Colombian government releases about 200 guerrillas who are imprisoned on a variety of charges.
		Betancourt was abducted as she was traveling by car to the former rebel town of San Vicente del Caguan.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/americas/02/28/colombia.betancourt (316 words)

	Ingrid Betancourt, kidnapped for two years - Green Party
		When FARC first abducted Ingrid and Clara, they told the world they would only hold the two women for one year but, to date, Colombian government measures, and the efforts of Ingrid's supporters around the world, have failed to secure their release.
		We Greens and the family and friends of Ingrid and Clara are very concerned for their safety and will continue to do whatever we can to secure their release.
		We express our solidarity with Ingrid Betancourt and Clara Rojas who are a clear example of the harsh effects that the war has produced on the lives and bodies of Colombian people.
	www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/PR7200.html (441 words)

	eye - Political animals - 12.04.03
		Ingrid Betancourt is the Colombian presidential candidate who was kidnapped by guerrillas on Feb. 23, 2002, roughly a week before the beginning of her campaign.
		The filmmakers follow Ingrid's husband, Juan Carlos Lecompte, as he totes an eerie cardboard cutout of his wife around the campaign trail, and the rest of the family, including Betancourt's two kids, as they struggle, sometimes almost comically, to keep Betancourt's political ideals alive.
		"Ingrid is such a personal story, it doesn't really explore the reasons why Colombia's in the mess it is, the mess that was created in the so-called war on drugs," says Bruce.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_12.04.03/film/kidnapping.html (806 words)

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