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Inside Colombia’s Hostage War

By Maureen Orth, Vanity Fair special correspondent and National Magazine Award winner

Vanity Fair special reportUpon Ingrid Betancourt’s liberation, last July, the world was eager for her story: the patrician politician held hostage in Colombia’s rain-forest jungle for six often brutal years by the revolutionary farc guerrillas. In addition to meeting the most famous kidnap victim since Patti Hearst, the author interviews three of Betancourt’s fellow hostages (including her closest confidant), Colombian president Álvaro Uribe, and the man who oversaw the daring rescue, to explain how it all plays into a four-decade war.

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This message comes to wake up the jungle.” On Sunday morning, July 20, in Paris, Ingrid Betancourt, the most famous kidnap victim since Patti Hearst, was broadcasting directly to hostages in Colombia’s vast rain forest, an area the size of Texas, where left-wing guerrillas of the farc (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) were still holding between 500 and 700 captives, including 25 political prisoners.

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