Until death do us part: my struggle to reclaim Colombia

by Betancourt, Ingrid

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Title Statements

Full title :Until death do us part : my struggle to reclaim Colombia / Ingrid Betancourt ; translated from the French by Steven Rendall.

Summary

"Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Her father served as Colombia's ambassador to UNESCO and her mother, a political activist, continued her work on behalf of the country's countless children whose lives were being destroyed by extreme poverty and institutional neglect. Intellectually, Ingrid was influenced by Pablo Neruda and other Latin writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who frequented her parents' social circle. She studied at Ecole de Sciences Politiques de Paris, a prestigious academy in France." "From this charmed life, Ingrid Betancourt - not yet thirty, happily married to a French diplomat, and a mother of two children - returned to her native country in the late 1980s. On what was initially just a visit, she found her country under internal siege from the drug cartels and the corrupt government that had allowed them to flourish. After seeing what had become of Colombia's democracy, she didn't feel she could leave."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2002.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ecco
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2002.

The Physical Object

Description:228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, maps ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0060008903, 9780060008901
oclc:ocm47696344
LC Classification:F2279.22.B48
Dewey Decimal:986.106/35/092

Subjects

Autobiographies Autobiography Betancourt, Ingrid Biographies Biography Candidats à la présidence -- Biographie… Colombia Colombia -- Politics and government -- … Corruption (Politique) -- Histoire. -- … Drogues -- Trafic -- Colombie Drug traffic Drug traffic -- History. -- Colombia History LEGISLATORS Legislators -- Biography. -- Colombia Political corruption Political corruption -- History. -- Col… Politics and government Presidential candidates Presidential candidates -- Biography. -…