Tag: Betancourt
Ingrid Betancourt renounces to stand for the presidential election in Colombia
Photo provided by Ingrid Betancourt’s campaign team of the ex-candidate, left, rallied to independent candidate Rodolfo Hernandez in Baranquilla (Colombia), May 20, 2022. – /AFP The Franco-Colombian and ex-hostage Ingrid…
Ex-FARC hostage Betancourt leaves the alliance
ARCHIVE – Ingrid Betancourt speaks during a press conference. 20 years after her kidnapping, Ingrid Betancourt, the longtime hostage of the left-wing guerrilla organization FARC, wants to run as an…
presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt leaves the centrist coalition
Ingrid Betancourt, January 28, 2022, in Bogota. DANIEL MUNOZ / AFP Ingrid Betancourt remains a candidate in the Colombian election on May 29, but it is ultimately under the colors…
Ingrid Betancourt: 20 years after her kidnapping, she is running for the Colombian presidential
Two decades after her kidnapping while she was a candidate for the presidential election in Colombia, Ingrid Betancourt announced on Wednesday January 19 to try her luck to run for…
Colombia: ex-Farcs hostage Ingrid Betancourt wants to run for president
Hostage for six years of the FARC guerrillas, the Franco-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt has announced that she wants to take part in the presidential election scheduled for spring 2022 in Colombia.…
Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt pre-candidate for Colombian president
Ingrid Betancourt during a press conference in Bogota, Colombia, on January 18, 2022, when announcing her presidential pre-candidacy. IVAN VALENCIA / AP Twenty years ago, Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped on…
Colombia: Ingrid Betancourt wants to run for president
At the head of the small environmentalist party Vert Oxygène, the 59-year-old Franco-Colombian ex-hostage will participate in a primary organized to decide between the candidates of a centrist coalition, the…
Ingrid Betancourt: the former hostage is running for the presidential election in Colombia
And one more candidate, in Colombia. Twenty years after her kidnapping when she was already running for president, Ingrid Betancourt persists and signs and announced this Tuesday, January 18, her…
Colombia: ex-hostage Ingrid Betancourt in the presidential race
I20 years ago, Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) while she was in the middle of the presidential campaign in Colombia. At the start…
Ingrid Betancourt announces her candidacy for the presidential election in Colombia
Ingrid Betancourt in Bogota, January 18, 2022. DANIEL MUNOZ / AFP She wants to finish what she couldn’t finish twenty years ago. Ingrid Betancourt, who was held hostage for six…
Colombia: Ingrid Betancourt wants to run for president
Twenty years after her kidnapping, Franco-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt, a hostage for six years in the FARC guerrillas, announced on Tuesday her intention to take part in the presidential election scheduled…
Ex-Farc ordered to pay 36 million dollars for the kidnapping of Betancourt
US justice has condemned the former Colombian rebellion Farc to pay 36 million dollars in compensation for the kidnapping of Franco-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt between 2002 and 2008, according to judicial…