Even Silence Has an End My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

by Betancourt, Ingrid

• ISBN13: 9780143119982
• ISBN10: 0143119982
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-30
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

"Betancourt's riveting account...is an unforgettable epic of moral courage and human endurance." - Los Angeles Times In the midst of her campaign for the Colombian presidency in 2002, Ingrid Betancourt traveled into a military-controlled region, where she was abducted by the FARC, a brutal terrorist guerrilla organization in conflict with the government. She would spend the next six and a half years captive in the depths of the Colombian jungle. Even Silence Has an Endis her deeply moving and personal account of that time. The facts of her story are astounding, but it is Betancourt's indomitable spirit that drives this very special narrative-an intensely intelligent, thoughtful, and compassionate reflection on what it really means to be human.

Author Biography

Ingrid Betancourt was born on December 25, 1961, in Bogotá, Colombia. As a politican and presidential candidate, she was celebrated for her determination to combat widespread corruption in Colombia. She now lives in New York City and Paris, France.

Table of Contents

Escaping the Cage	p. 1
Farewell	p. 26
The Abduction	p. 35
"El Mocho" Cesar	p. 47
Sonia's Camp	p. 57
The Death of my Father	p. 73
Falling into the Abyss	p. 78
Taming the Hornets	p. 86
The Strains of Communal Life	p. 101
Proof of Life	p. 109
The Little Wooden House	p. 114
Ferney	p. 122
Learning to Weave	p. 127
Melanie's Seventeenth Birthday	p. 131
Resentment and Remission	p. 135
The Raid	p. 141
The Cage	p. 150
Friends Who Come and Go	p. 154
Voices from the Outside	p. 159
A Visit from Joaquín Gómez	p. 163
Second Proof of Life	p. 171
The Fortune-Teller	p. 176
An Unexpected Encounter	p. 180
Giovanni's Camp	p. 184
In the Hands of the Shadow	p. 190
Sombra's Serenade	p. 196
The Barbed Wire	p. 199
The Satellite Antenna	p. 206
Inside the Prison	p. 209
The Arrival of the Americans	p. 214
The Big Row	p. 219
Roll Call	p. 225
Human Misery	p. 229
Lucho's Illness	p. 233
A Sad Christmas	p. 242
The Bickering	p. 250
The Chicken Run	p. 256
Back in the Prison	p. 262
Radio Roundup	p. 268
Gloria's Children	p. 278
The Petty Things of Hell	p. 281
The Dictionary	p. 286
My Friend Lucho	p. 289
The Child	p. 293
The Strike	p. 298
Birthdays	p. 303
The Big Departure	p. 307
Hepatitis	p. 310
Guillermo's Frisk	p. 315
Unexpected Support	p. 318
The Hammock	p. 323
Selling Hope	p. 327
The Group of Ten	p. 335
The Endless March	p. 343
The Chains	p. 351
The Honeymoon	p. 354
At the Gates of Hell	p. 361
Descent Into Hell	p. 367
The Devil	p. 372
Now or Never	p. 377
The Escape	p. 383
Freedom	p. 395
The Choice	p. 407
The End of the Dream	p. 411
Punishment	p. 416
The Retreat	p. 421
The Eggs	p. 426
Monster	p. 429
Lucho's Heart	p. 435
Pinchao's Escape	p. 442
The Death of Pinchao	p. 450
My Friend Marc	p. 456
The Ban	p. 463
The Letters	p. 469
The Separation	p. 475
Stroking Death	p. 480
Third Proof of Life	p. 489
Lucho's Release	p. 495
The Disagreement	p. 504
The Sacred Heart	p. 511
The Trick	p. 514
The End of Silence	p. 523
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