Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician, was held by Colombia’s notorious FARC rebels for more than six years. In July 2008, she was freed in a daring military rescue. We talked to her ...

I'm sure many of you have been following the story of Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian politician who was rescued by Colombian commandos after being held hostage for six years by leftist ...

Ingrid Betancourt, the former Colombian presidential candidate who was released last week after six years in captivity at the hands of the country’s leftist rebels, said Wednesday that it was vital ...

"We never want to go back to the past," Ingrid Betancourt told a group that included her former captors on Wednesday Thirteen years after being released from guerillas who held her hostage for more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bridget Arsenault is a London-based journalist who covers travel. What I have been trying to do is deconstruct my experience in a ...

Hers is a nightmare that will not fade quickly: six years in the jungles of Colombia as a hostage of leftist rebels. But Ingrid Betancourt says she is getting on with her life, and hopes to exorcise ...

Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt said her Catholic faith helped pull her through a six-year ordeal in Colombia, where she learned the value of "the sharing of despair." "The only thing I've settled in ...

Julia has a gift — or is it? Ingrid Betancourt's new novel, The Blue Line, is about a woman in 1970s Argentina who can see the world through the eyes of others. Usually what she sees are terrible ...