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After six years being held hostage in the Colombian jungle, former Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, along with fourteen other captives, was rescued by men disguised as Colombian leftist commandos. Betancourt had originally been taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) — described by the Times as "a Marxist inspired insurgency," — when she was campaigning for President as the Green Party anti-corruption candidate in 2002. She has a storied past which includes time spent as a beauty queen and dual French and Colombian citizenship because of her first marriage to a diplomat. She wrote an autobiography, Storm in my Heart, which was a best-seller in France and according to the Telegraph, "some reviewers described her as a latter-day Joan of Arc, and her election campaign was followed closely in the [French] media." More »
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