Showing Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle by Ingrid Betancourt

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2011-6-1 Pages: 594 Publisher: little brown Ingrid Betancourts story - her exemplary courage. spirit andresilience - has captured the worlds imagination A politician andpresidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combatthe corruption and climate of fear endemic. in Colombia. in 2002 shewas taken hostage by FARC. a terrorist guerrilla organisation. Shewas held captive in the depths of the jungle for six and a halfyears. chained day and night for much of that time. constantly onthe move and enduring gruelling conditions. She was freed andreunited with her children and relatives in 2008. It isBetancourts indomitable spirit that drives this important anddeeply moving book. telling in her own words the extraordinarydrama of her capture and eventual rescue. and describes her fightto survive. mentally and physically. As she confr...