..For many years I have thought that while I remain alive, while I keep breathing, I have to keep maintaining hope. Now I don’t have the same strength, now it is a lot of work for me to keep believing, but I want you to feel that all that you have done for us has made a difference. We have felt like human beings. Thank you. ”

Ingrid Betancourt



Excerpt from Ingrid Betancourt's letter to her mother wile held hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC

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