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I love Colombia's military. I love my country.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I want to serve my country, but not necessarily in the political arena.
Ingrid Betancourt -
The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Sometimes you need other people to embody situations so that you can talk about things that for you are important. And I think that being able to hope for the future is what builds in us the strength to just get rid of things that, in the past, can hurt.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.
Ingrid Betancourt
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At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'
Ingrid Betancourt -
I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Reconciliation is a national decision that has to be debated and a consensus made among Colombians.
Ingrid Betancourt