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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Fifteen hostages were freed in Colombia yesterday, after being held by the guerrilla group FARC. Among the hostages was Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate who had been held ...

In the seven days since she emerged from six and a half harrowing years as a FARC hostage in the Colombian jungle, Ingrid Betancourt has been canonized by the media. And Saint Ingrid has responded ...

Margaret Warner talks to Ingrid Betancourt about her new memoir, "Even Silence Has an End," and her years as a hostage in the Colombian jungle. Ingrid Betancourt is now two years and many miles beyond ...

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BOGOTA (Reuters) - French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, held hostage by FARC guerrillas, is "very sick" in a Colombian rebel jungle camp and has been mistreated by her captors, hostages ...

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 ...

* Says government pulled her bodyguards before kidnapping * Suit asks $6.8 mln, but Betancourt says not after money By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, July 11 (Reuters) - Colombia's government took Ingrid ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Anti-kidnapping campaigner Ingrid Betancourt paid a surprise visit to Colombia on Saturday at the start of a regional tour to try to jump start hostage talks with the leftist rebels ...

PARIS, March 6 (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned the leader of Colombia's FARC rebel movement on Thursday that he would be viewed as murderer throughout the world if he let hostage ...

The Colombian politician was on her way to a remote village when she was abducted by members of the FARC in 2002. At first she thought she'd be... Ingrid Betancourt's Six Years In The Jungle In 2002, ...