It’s easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through. Ingrid Betancourt Read Quote
These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions… I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn’t know anything about my children. Ingrid Betancourt Read Quote
Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt. Ingrid Betancourt Read Quote
In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions. Ingrid Betancourt Read Quote
On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living. Ingrid Betancourt Read Quote
I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris. Ingrid Betancourt Read Quote
I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking. Ingrid Betancourt Read Quote
At first, I didn’t want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, ‘Next week, I’ll be freed.’ Ingrid Betancourt Read Quote
I didn’t want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn’t do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come. Ingrid Betancourt Read Quote
