cue, she now writes about what she learned about fear, forgiveness and the divine. In 2002, the Colombian rural guerilla movement known as the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) kidnapped Ingrid Betancourt in the middle of her presidential campaign. For the next six years, Betancourt was held hostage in jungle prison camps w

: In a brief statement on August 27th President Juan Manuel Santos acknowledged that his government had agreed to restart peace talks with the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) in a bid to end the hemisphere's longest running armed conflict. It will be the first talks between the two parties since 2002. Norway and Cuba wil