I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.
Ingrid BetancourtI realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do, I mean changing the way politics were being done in Colombia, was not possible the way I wanted to do it - by confronting, by denouncing.
Ingrid BetancourtI think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.
Ingrid BetancourtAfter six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt