I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do, I mean changing the way politics were being done in Colombia, was not possible the way I wanted to do it - by confronting, by denouncing.
I was struggling against corruption and the only thing... my only weapon was to put the truth in the medias and of course it made me win lots of enem… - Ingrid Betancourt
I was struggling against corruption and the only thing... my only weapon was to put the truth in the medias and of course it made me win lots of enem…
- Ingrid Betancourt
If you believe what you say, words will become reality. - Ingrid Betancourt
If you believe what you say, words will become reality.
I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning … - Ingrid Betancourt
I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning …
In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of… - Ingrid Betancourt
In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of…
Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity. - Ingrid Betancourt
Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity.
Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept … - Ingrid Betancourt
Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept …
Hostages want to survive - they are very focused on their own little view of things. - Ingrid Betancourt
Hostages want to survive - they are very focused on their own little view of things.
Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person. - Ingrid Betancourt
Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.
What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor. - Ingrid Betancourt
What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.
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