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By Jeremy McDermott in Medellín After six years as their prize hostage, will Ingrid Betancourt now take on Colombia's FARC rebels? Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt embraces her son Lorenzo (right) and daughter Melanie It was a serene Ingrid Betancourt who was treated to a hero's welcome in Paris yesterday, just two days after being dramatically delivered from six years in the hands of Marxist guerrillas deep in the Colombian jungle. In 2002, Betancourt had approached a rebel roadblock with that same serenity. She was one of the fiercest critics of the terrorist organisation Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), but she was also a skilled politician. She could never have imagined that she was about to spend several years as their captive, frequently chained to a tree in a verdant prison: a time that, as she wrote... [read full story]
