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7/15/2008
Update above by pic. Betancourt receives Legion Medal of Honor from France's President Sarkozy. She deserves it but the one who gives it to her is a right wing conservative-strange" bedfellows". Should we trust where all this is going? Or will it just be a good book and blockbuster movie and who knows what else.
7/10/08 This Just In: Six Years of Torture Take Toll on Marriage
Ingrid Betancourt's release from FARC rebels on July 2 marked the end of a six-year nightmare. In addition to the constant feeling of bugs crawling all over her body, the mental torture of being screamed at incessantly, and the near starvation she faced every day, there are still some horrors she can't yet discuss. According to CNN.com, in an interview with Larry King, "Betancourt also would not detail the punishment she endured after a failed escape attempt. 'Oh, that was horrible,' she said before telling King that she was 'not ready for that.'" Nor would she talk about the circumstances of a child born to another hostage in captivity. What Betancourt is doing is shining more of a global light than we've seen in many years on a intolerably sadistic rebel group. Which is why it is galling to see the following headline accompanying a CNN story about Betancourt: "Betancourt's Husband Admits Icy Reunion." Apparently, she wasn't as warm to husband Juan Carlos Lecompte as, well, as what? As a survivor of six years of torture should be? It seems that before leaving for France without him--no!--she "greeted him coldly." Well, I guess he is the real victim here after all. Thanks CNN, for bringing us all angles of the story.
--Sacha Zimmerman
2 comments:
I dont think CNN is wrong for merely mentioning that Betancourt is leaving the Columbian husband that has spent the last 6 1/2 years trying to get her home. Probably because she would rather live in France than Columbia. Something I cannot blame her for.
The criticism is directed at her husband for foocusing on himself and his needs given the situation that Betancourt has been through. It appeared that he felt snubbed by her. I do feel for him though. It is hard not to see Ingrid Betancourt as bigger than life- a true heroine, a figure who shows both humility, strength, and courage and also points out the human weakness in all of us. She almost seems immortal like an Anne Frank. Am I falling into some great trap or just letting myself feel this woman?
SRaphael
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