Letters to My Mother

Correspondence between politician Ingrid Betancourt and her family, written while she was being held hostage by a Columbian guerilla group.   On December 1, 2007, during the arrest of several guerillas in Bogotá, the Colombian police confiscated a short video clip of political hostage Ingrid Betancourt. Accompanying the video was a twelve-page letter, dated October 24, 2007, written by Betancourt to her mother and family. Kidnapped on February 23, 2002, Betancourt has become an internationa