Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt announced on Tuesday that she would run for president. During a previous presidential campaign in 2002, Betancourt was kidnapped and held hostage for more than ...

Former Colombian Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, left, who was abducted while campaigning by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, rebels, is comforted by another kidnapping ...

Ingrid Betancourt was freed in a Colombian military operation in 2008 after six-and-a-half years held hostage by FARC guerillas - Copyright AFP/File Biju BORO Ingrid ...

FRANCE: Ingrid Betancourt, the hostage held by Colombia's Farc rebels, may not be as ill as previously thought, but Paris still… FRANCE:Ingrid Betancourt, the hostage held by Colombia's Farc rebels, ...

As a candidate for the Colombian presidency in 2002, she was brave—or foolish—enough to campaign near the jungle stronghold of rebel paramilitaries. That’s when Ingrid Betancourt was taken hostage and ...

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Ingrid Betancourt — who was abducted 20 years ago while campaigning for Colombia’s presidency, and held captive by FARC rebels in the jungle. French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt was captured by the ...

"We never want to go back to the past," Ingrid Betancourt told a group that included her former captors on Wednesday Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for ...

CARACAS, March 8 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a public appeal to the head of Colombia's FARC guerrillas on Saturday to release high-profile French-Colombian hostage Ingrid ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - A Colombian FARC rebel has offered to release French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt and other guerrilla captives in exchange for protection from extradition, President Alvaro ...