Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself.
Ingrid BetancourtAfter six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid BetancourtSometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.
Ingrid BetancourtIt's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.
Ingrid Betancourt