Ingrid Betancourt Even Silence Has An End Book 2010
Ingrid Betancourt Even Silence Has An End Book 2010 – A horrid tale of a Columbian senator and presidential candidate, being kidnapped, held hostage, having everything taken away from her, and fighting to keep her identity as a name not a number seems like the idea of a top fictional novel. For Ingrid Betancourt, the book she wrote is far from fiction, as she spoke about her ordeal in an emotional interview.
“For me it was like taking away my oxygen,” Betancourt says now, speaking in a highly emotional interview upon the release of “Even Silence Has an End,” her powerful, often agonizing memoir of life in captivity.
“There are things you do because you have to. You don’t always calculate the consequences. And sometimes you do very stupid things because of that.” Eventually, though, the captors backed down.
The book, titled ‘Even Silence Has An End’, is the tale of her capture and life as a prisoner in the jungles of Columbia. Betancourt faced a life and future not many of us could fathom, and which not many of us would survive to tell the tale. The book has already been claimed as “a classic of Colombian history and literature” by Hector Abad, one of the country’s most influential living writers.
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Ingratitud Betancourt, (Ungrateful Betancourt),
She seems to so quickly have forgotten, who rescued her from six plus years of imprisonment in the Colombian jungle by the FARC Guerilla. Not only is she ridiculously ungrateful, but as soon as she was liberated, she expoused her fix of all ills in Colombia, as if she was the countrys savior along with the lunatic and demented President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.
Undoubtedly she continues to make unfounded statements which only reconfirm that she remains out in left field with her arbitrary views.
Thank God that there is a strong Colombian Government who saved her and the other hostages, with a daring and successful plan that gained them all their liberty.
you know what, craig? I have just a couple of words for you…BACK OFF!!! Put yourself in her shoes, I mean really how many women do you know could have survived what she did, having two kids, lost her father while she was being held hostage, and having 6 years of her life taken? Not many! You or nobody else will ever understand her position and so-called “arrogance” unless they were in her shoes!
She is the one that never was in the shoes of the fallen soldiers and their families sacrificed in the effort to consolidate her freedom.
Her suffering deserves compassion but her arrogance has been a magnet for negative feelins
that makes so easy to realize that she is no a honest person.
So, Hugo Chavez is a lunatic right? why? is it because he has the guts to stand to the greedy imperialistic desires of the US? We here worry about Chavez buying weapons, guess who spends on WMD’s more than the rest of the world combined? google it and you’ll know who the lunatics are. Did you hear the Iranian President at the UN….Let’s make 2011 the year of a world free on Nukes, we’ll never go for it; he can’t have them, but us and the Israelis can right? Who the hell gave us the right to solely posses them? Wake up dude and stop reading propagandistic media owned by Rupert Murder, in the 21 century we have the means to research news, real news, facts like the ones I’m giving you here, FACTS DUDE, NOT OPINIONS!!!!!!!
Why do you feel this way? Be more specific. I don’t feel she is ungrateful at all. I agree with you that The Columbian Government was brave and daring…when does she not give them the credit? I think she is very aware that she was human and that she upset the other captives, but I have to say, she seemed most brave. She always stayed true to who she was. What are her unfounded statements?
Critics are speaking up because they are better educated on this subject. Many of these critics are Colombians who have lived through the political turmoil, and who have witnessed and experienced the terror of the FARC. These critics have also witnessed the consistency of the manipulation and the destructive way in which Betancourt has acted. Once again, Colombians felt betrayed by her, when at the very same time that she is writing in her book, about her new humane and kinder, better self , she is filing a law suit against the very people that risked their life to save her. Her book may say one thing, but her actions speak a different reality which continues to be consistent with what the other hostages witnessed about her.
Betancourt entered the enemy territory on her own free will after being advised against it and informed of the dangers involved and signing a release form accepting responsibility for entering the FARC territory. This would make her a victim by her own doing. All the other testimony offered by all her fellow hostages is consistent in portraying Ingrid as a very abusive, cruel and calculating human being, who was willing to endanger the lives of others to satisfy her needs. There are people who would justify Ingrid’s behavior due to the extreme conditions that all the hostages were subjected to. However, one would have to wonder, if all the hostages faced the same extreme conditions, why did no other hostage besides Ingrid, become a vicious and abusive human being. People need to read the testimony from the other hostages that were present, including other women. This considering that according to the hostages, Ingrid actually received special treatment, while she herself treated everyone else in a heartless and ruthless manner. In addition, after being rescued, the other hostages, including the three Americans showed gratitude to those who endangered their lives to save them, Betancourt instead, decided to sue them, and only dropped the law suit after it was evident that she would loose.
There is much more that needs to be understood about this story. Anyone who want to understand the full story and be in a position to fairly comment on the facts behind this story, should do more research on the background and on all the other hostages and witnesses. She became to Colombians, what John Edwards became to Americans, and to see her profit from what she has done, is hard for Colombians to swallow.
She is called ungrateful because she dared to ask for compensation under a law for victims of terrorism, just as several other kidnapped politicians had done. However the newspapers covered only Betancourt’s lawsuit, and said she was suing the same people who rescued her, which of course was not true.
She is called evil because Keith Stansell and other hostages did not like her. I wonder if they went around asking every classmate in high school how they remember us… the review would be mixed. Now imagine you are chained to each other, having to share limited space, food and resources for 6 years…
We do not judge or rate the survivors of Nazi concentration camps based on how well they behaved in captivity. This is no different. Her relentless desire to escape and to keep her dignity cannot be judged by anyone. Courage and imprudence are two sides of the same coin.
She is called ungrateful because she had the audacity to be born into a good family and she had the audicity to run for president to try to change her beloved country. She is ungrateful because after six years of torture, (you can’t imagine that they didn’t rape her, beat her and do all kinds of things to her)she just wanted to leave and not be near the country that she loved but somehow was her prison for 6.5 years. She is evil because she dared be tough while virtually a slave and in her shoes it’s survival of the fittest. She is a victim regardless of her name or bank account. I wonder how well we would all act in her shoes and how we would end up mentally. They took 6.5 years from her life but so much more of her inner self that she’ll never get back. This is a story about the human condition. Why was she loved when she tried to change her country and now hated for being a prisoner? Does it make sense to hate someone who questions it all after 6.5 years of slavery. The soldiers who saved her deserve praise but that has nothing to do with the fact that for 6.5 years she dealt things we could only imagine in our worst nightmares. If she were a man, she’d be considered one tough SOB.
I am Colombian myself and all I wanted since I was little was peace…. As Colombian citizen you hear that word every single day, newspapers, television, radio etc I am wondering if we really understand the meaning of that word. I don’t think so!!!!! We are an intolerant country with a low education, capable to post on the internet violent messages, insults and little respect for humanity. Where is our lovely peace? Contradiction is our day result. As a law student, I was sick of our corruption and our volatile point of views. What Ingrid Betancourt said is just the truth; we are capable to show the most intense love and 10 minutes later we will let our hate take over.
I do admire this woman intensely and again she manages to honest show what our Colombian society is all about. I am sure that all those Colombians that are posting insulting messages on the net did not read the book at all…” How they could do such a thing”; that is betray our country. Read and wake up Colombia, that why we are in this problem for the last 60 years, do not let others make your opinion, do not le politicians telling you what to do, do not let the corruption destroy your dignity.