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Just saw the interview in Oprah about Ingrid Betancourt story of her 6 1/2 yrs, of captivity..even though iam familiar with the story,,it was very emotional and hard..I will love to read the book

ACABO DE VER LA ENTREVISTA EN OPRAH ACERCA DE LA HISTORIA DE INGRID BETANCOURT,,SUS 61/2 ANOS DE SECUESTRO EN EL AMAZON DE SUDAMERICA,,MUY EMOTIVA Y FUERTE ESTUVO ESTA ENTREVISTA,ME GUSTARIA LEER SU LIBRO,ALGUIEN LO HA LEIDO??

Hola Rebeca
Yo estoy leyendo la versión en español del libro.
Sin duda alguna Ingrid es una excelente escritora.
El libro relata de forma muy vivida las experiencias que tuvo en la selva, describe las relaciones con sus captores y con sus compañeros de cautiverio.
es conmovedor y algunas veces un poco angustiante. La historia esta tan bien contada y descrita que te transporta al lugar de su cautiverio.

gracias por tu comentario, indudablemente creo que plasma la historia de su cuativerio en forma tan real, lo pondre en mi lista de leer....

Even Silence Has an End - My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle, by Ingrid Betancourt, published by The Penguin Press of New York, in 2010. I’m up to page 35 of 528, Chapter three of 82. I bought the book over the internet and was drawn to it after seeing a one-hour TV documentary about the author that was broadcast synchronised into the German language from the original BBC-TV Documentary. This is a classic example of why I consider ARTE-TV to be one of the world’s best television broadcasters. I remember well the way in which the FARC and their guerrilla war with the Colombian Armed Forces and US DEA troops usurped the headlines in our Latin American consciousness balloon replacing, the list of sensationalist subject matter fit for “human� tragedies and detritus column of the “why I know so little about the South American continent� bias I live with all the time.

The kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt was grist for the mills of the righteous Western forces I usually am at odds with, but there was something really wrong with holding this Colombian Senator who was mounting a campaign for the Presidency that made me think that it was a case of the male, macho oligarchy-class of Colombia instrumentalising the FARC guerrillas to solve a problem they were having not wanting to let a woman have that much power in their society. I really don’t have very much respect for the “Latin lover� archetype, or the “macho� man or the “guerrillero� or the horrible way in which most Spanish-speaking women seem to me to be dominated and controlled by Spanish men. God I hate generalisations but I’ve actually not met many really liberated Spanish-speaking women and the few I’ve met who are, have seemed almost insane by contrast.

The central theme in the book is Ms. Betancourt’s judgement or reading of all the people around and their characters. And the fact that she gave up Colombia, which is just what all those men wanted, isn’t it?

And I say to myself, if I were her I’d have done the same thing. You turn your back on them and walk away and they never exist for you again. She’s divorced her husband, and I hope moved on with her life. But who knows. I like these so-called action biographies, where a human being is defined by their response to a really exceptional life event that makes them who they are.

Betancourt makes me think of a Brazilian artist/photographer friend of mine, Isabella Calle Mascagna who I know as Isa her art-name. She’s an all-round artist and performance or installation artist and she has a unique mythology she’s built up for her art. There are two stories from her I have to tell. Perhaps in the telling of them you will appreciate how I find a similarity between her and Ingrid Betancourt’s way of seeing her world in light of her experiences.