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Ingrid Betancourt

Colombian politician
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December 25, 1961, Bogotá, Colombia (age 63)

Ingrid Betancourt (born December 25, 1961, Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian politician whose long captivity as the hostage of Marxist guerrillas and eventual rescue in 2008 made headlines throughout the world. She served as a senator from 1998 to 2002, and, while running for president in the latter year, she was kidnapped. Betancourt, who holds dual French and Colombian citizenship, spent her formative years in Paris, where her father served for a time as Colombia’s ambassador to UNESCO. She studied at the Institute for Political Studies (Institut d’Études Politiques) and in 1983 married Fabrice Delloye, a French diplomat. She returned ...(100 of 477 words)

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