Ingrid Betancourt

Ingrid Betancourt décrit avec précision sa captivité aux mains des FARC du 23 février 2002 au 2 juillet 2008. Elle raconte les journées semblables aux autres, la vie quotidienne dans la jungle, les conditions de détention, ses relations avec les autres otages et ses geôliers, ses cinq tentatives d´évasion.

Repentinamente, Ingrid Betancourt, quien estuvo cautiva en la selva colombiana durante más de cinco años, da señales de vida: en una larga carta a su madre Yolanda y a su familia, escrita de un plumazo, les recuerda que son ellos los que la mantienen con la cabeza fuera del agua, los que no la dejan ahogarse en el olvido, la nada y la desesperanza. Su mensaje, presentado aqui por sus hijos, es una vibrante declaracion de amor asi como una apologia de la libertad a la altura de los grandes textos de la Historia. En respuesta, su hija, Melanie, quien suscita opiniones y moviliza gobernantes desde los 16 años para salvar a su madre, junto con su hermano Lorenzo, le envian un profundo y estremecedor mensaje. Estas dos cartas escritas desde el infierno apuntan directo al corazon y resumen todo el dolor y toda la grandeza del ser humano. En esta edicion se incluye un prologo de Elie Wiesel, Premio Nobel de la Paz, y una lista de los rehenes que estuvieron en manos de las FARC. Ingrid Betancourt fue secuestrada por las FARC el 23 de febrero de 2002 mientras hacia campaña para las elecciones presidenciales. Betancourt fue liberada en julio de 2008.

Set against the backdrop of Argentinas Dirty War and infused with magical realism, The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one of the worlds 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 her eyes, mysterious and terrible apparitions from the future, seen from the perspective of others. From the age of five, Julia must intervene to prevent horrific events. In fact, as her grandmother tells her, it is her duty to do sootherwise she will lose her gift. At fifteen, Julia falls in love with Theo, a handsome revolutionary four years her senior. Their lives are turned upside down when Juan Peron, the former president and military dictator, returns to Argentina. Confronted by the realities of military dictatorship, Julia and Theo become Montoneros sympathizers and radical idealists, equally fascinated by Jesus Christ and Che Guevara. Captured by death squadrons, they somehow manage to escape. . . .In this remarkable novel, Betancourt, an activist who spent more than six years held hostage by the FARC in the depths of Colombian jungle, returns to many of the themes of Even Silence Has an End. The Blue Line is a story centered on the consequences of oppression, collective subservience, and individual courage, and, most of all, the notion that belief in the future of humanity is an act of faith most beautiful and deserving.

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Las dos caras de una Colombia que se debate entre la guerra y la paz desde hace demasiado tiempo. Juan Manuel Santos e Ingrid Betancourt son dos de los personajes más conspicuos de la Colombia de l

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From the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, a stunning debut novel about freedom and fate Set against the backdrop of Argentinas Dirty War and infused with magical realism, The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one of the worlds 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 her eyes, mysterious and terrible apparitions from the future, seen from the perspective of others. From the age of five, Julia must intervene to prevent horrific events. In fact, as her grandmother tells her, it is her duty to do sootherwise she will lose her gift. At fifteen, Julia falls in love with Theo, a handsome revolutionary four years her senior. Their lives are turned upside down when Juan Peron, the former president and military dictator, returns to Argentina. Confronted by the realities of military dictatorship, Julia and Theo become Montoneros sympathizers and radical idealists, equally fascinated by Jesus Christ and Che Guevara. Captured by death squadrons, they somehow manage to escape. . . .In this remarkable novel, Betancourt, an activist who spent more than six years held hostage by the FARC in the depths of Colombian jungle, returns to many of the themes of Even Silence Has an End. The Blue Line is a story centered on the consequences of oppression, collective subservience, and individual courage, and, most of all, the notion that belief in the future of humanity is an act of faith most beautiful and deserving.

Buenos Aires, années 70. Julia a hérité de sa grand-mère Josefina un don précieux et encombrant : parfois des scènes du futur lui apparaissent, vues à travers le regard de l'autre. L'histoire de Juli

Ingrid Betancourts story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the worlds 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 Betancourts 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.

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 Colombias ambassador to UNESCO and her mother, a political activist, continued her work on behalf of the countrys 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 Garcia Marquez, who frequented her parents social circle. She studied at Ecole de Sciences Politiques de Paris, a prestigious academy in 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. On what was initially just a visit, she found her country under internal siege from the drug cartels and the corrupt government that had allowed them to flourish. After seeing what had become of Colombias democracy, she didnt feel she could leave.Until Death Do Us Part is the deeply personal story of a woman who gave up a life of comfort and safety to become a political leader in a country being slowly demolished by terrorism, violence, fear, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness. It is a country where democracy has been sacrificed for the well-being of the few, where international criminals determine policy, and where political assassinations are a way of life. Now forty, Ingrid Betancourt has been elected and reelected as a representative and as a senator in Colombias national legislature. She has founded a political party that has openly confronted Colombias leaders and has earned the respect of a nation. And now she has become a target of the establishment and the drug cartels behind it.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. Here is a political cocktail that has destroyed countless lives in Colombia and has spread to countries beyond its borders.A memoir of a life in politics that reads like a fastpaced political thriller, Until Death Do Us Part -- already an international bestseller -- is a hair-raising account of one womans fight against the establishment. It is a story of a woman whose love for her country and faith in democracy gave her the courage to stand up to the power that has subjugated, intimidated, or corrupted all those who opposed it. A chilling account of the dangerous, byzantine machine that runs Colombia, it is also an inspiring story of privilege, sacrifice, and true patriotism.

Juan Manuel Santos e Ingrid Betancourt son dos de los personajes más conspicuos de la Colombia de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y lo que va del XXI: ambos pertenecen a las élites económicas y políticas del pais y debido a ello sus lazos comenzaron a hacerse muy proximos a partir de los años noventa, cuando Ingrid Betancourt y el Premio Nobel de Paz 2016 entraron de lleno a la politica. Ella como representante a la Camara de Representantes y el como ministro de Comercio Exterior, del gobierno de Cesar Gaviria Trujillo (1990-1994). De ahi en adelante, ella en su carrera publica como representante, senadora y candidata a la presidencia del pais, el como contradictor politico, ministro de Hacienda y finalmente como ministro de Defensa, su vida se entrelazaria de una manera tan fascinante como dolorosa.En 2001, con el rompimiento del proceso de paz con las FARC, llevado a cabo por el gobierno de Andres Pastrana Arango (1998-2002), Ingrid Betancourt fue secuestrada por esa guerrilla y torturada y vejada en su dignidad hasta lo indecible. En 2008, siendo Santos ministro de la Defensa de Colombia, una espectacular operacion militar, digna de un libreto de una pelicula de accion, libero a Ingrid sin un solo disparo.Santos se convertiria en presidente e Ingrid viajaria al exilio pero sus vidas son muestra la terrible situacion que atraviesa Colombia por causa de un conflicto interno y de unas elites que han sido enconadas enemigas entre ellas mismas. Este libro es, precisamente, una larga conversacion sobre la Colombia que ambos vivieron y padecieron. Santos, que consiguio firmar la paz con la guerrilla mas antigua del continente, y Betancourt que padecio uno de los mas largos secuestros que haya soportado un ser humano, desvelan en estas paginas como ha sido este pais que, en la esquina norte del continente suramericano, sigue intentando vivir en paz, a pesar de todo.Con maestria, el escritor Juan Carlos Torres consiguio darle un orden y coherencia a un libro que se lee como si fuera una apasionante historia que el lector pujara por conocer hasta el final.

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 arbol... en condiciones de la mas infame humillacion, conservaba, no obstante, la mas preciosa de las libertades, que nadie podria arrebatarme jamas: la de decidir quien queria ser."Ingrid BetancourtEn 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. Intimo, terrible, intensamente personal, este testimonio de su propia aventura no se parece a ningun otro. He aqui un viaje al corazon de las emociones extremas, una meditacion sobre la vida, sobre la condicion del reprobo y sobre lo que significa ser humano.

No hay silencio que no termine es el terrible relato de sus seis a#os y medio de cautiverio a manos de las FARC. #ntimo, terrible, intensamente personal, este testimonio de su propia aventura no se parece a ning#n otro. He aqu# un viaje al coraz#n de las emociones extremas, una meditaci#n sobre la vida, sobre la condici#n del r#probo y sobre lo que significa ser humano. "Encadenada del cuello a un #rbol, despose#da de toda libertad, la de moverse, sentarse o pararse, hablar o callar, la de comer o beber y aun la m#s elemental de todas, la de aliviarse el cuerpo... entend# - pero me cost# muchos a#os hacerlo - que uno guarda a pesar de todo la m#s valiosa de las libertades, la que nadie puede arrebatar a uno: aquella de decidir qui#n uno quiere ser."Ingrid Betancourt