Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
Author: Ingrid Betancourt
“Betancourt’s riveting account…is an unforgettable epic of moral courage and human endurance.” – Los Angeles TimesIn the midst of her campaign for the Colombian presidency in 2002, Ingrid Betancourt traveled into a military-controlled region, where she was abducted by the FARC, a brutal terrorist guerrilla organization in conflict with the government. She would spend the n….Read More
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