WednesdayDecember032008

Madonna meets with Ingrid Betancourt and Cristina Kirchner in Buenos Aires. Image Source [Splash]...

MondayDecember012008

Ingrid Betancourt arrived unannounced in Bogotá this past Saturday, coming home for the first time since her July 2 escape from the FARC. The former Colombian senator and presidential candidate returned to France immediately after her escape, and although...

TuesdaySeptember022008

Two months after being rescued from Farc, Ingrid Betancourt says she doesn’t ever want to forget the ordeal she went through those six years she was held hostage. To commemorate her rescue, Ingrid met with Pope Benedict XVI at...

ThursdayJuly172008

When Shakira isn’t gyrating in leather chaps, she’s out saving the world and hanging out in Paris with her new best friend forever, Ingrid Betancourt. Ingrid, the former Colombian politician who was recently rescued from six years of being...

TuesdayJuly082008

Itching for a big screen version of Ingrid Betancourt’s rescue from Farc rebels? Well, jerk, you’re in luck! Vertigo Entertainment and RCN, a Colombian television network, have teamed up to create a movie version of the headline-grabbing rescue. Whether...

TuesdayJuly082008

Unbridled enthusiasm and naïvité or tacky exploitation of a serious event for self-promotion? We’re not sure we can tell when it comes to La Pequeña Ingrid Betancourt. So, instead, we’ll sit in stunned silence and wonder where one might...

SaturdayJuly052008

This is video of Ingrid Betancourt’s dramatic rescue including the very moment she found out she was free. It has no sound, but is moving enough to make you appreciate your freedom this Fourth of July weekend. Video shows...

ThursdayJuly032008

Lorenzo Betancourt-Delloye, the comely, young son of recently recovered FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt, was bravely campaigning for his mother’s release all over France long before the rescue. (God, is there anything that isn’t completely doable about this man?) In...

ThursdayJuly032008

Now that Ingrid Betancourt is safely with her family, probably on their way to France as we write, can we just say how hot her son Lorenzo is? (We read that Ingrid’s mother is a former Miss Colombia, so...

ThursdayJuly032008

About an hour ago, former Colombian presidential candidate and FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt was reunited with her children for the first time in 6 years. It’s hard to see them very well from this angle, but the emotion is...

WednesdayJuly022008

Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, along with fourteen other hostages, has been freed by your friendly neighborhood Farc after six years in captivity: French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who had made her rescue a priority, said he was very happy. Her...

TuesdayMarch112008

Humanitarian and tireless human rights activist, Hugo Chavez, has appealed to Farc leaders to free their remaining female hostage, former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was kidnapped in 2002: Speaking in Caracas, alongside the mother of captive Ingrid...

FridayDecember282007

Colombian rebels have decided to release three hostages - former Colombian congresswoman Consuelo Gonzalez, former aide Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, Clara Rojas, and Rojas’ son Emmanuel, who was fathered by a guerrilla fighter: Colombia agreed Wednesday to allow...

TuesdayDecember182007

Clara Rojas, the campaign manager for kidnapped Colombian politician and anti-corruption activist Ingrid Betancourt, is expected to be released: Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels Tuesday ordered the release of Clara Rojas, kidnapped with French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt in 2002, and...

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