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Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio (born 25 December 1961) is a Colombian politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist.
Read More at Wikipedia ›BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The estranged second husband of Ingrid Betancourt has filed court papers seeking half her fortune just as the world's most celebrated ex-hostage launches a memoir about her six years in jungle captivity.
The lawyer for Juan Carlos Lecompte told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he filed a motion a day earlier in Bogota family court seeking to freeze all of Betancourt's assets — in Colombia and abroad.Lawyer Heli Abel Torrado said the assets include an apartment in Paris, a home in Wyoming and royalties from her memoir. The book, titled "Even Silence Has An End," went on sale internationally Tuesday.Neither Betancourt nor her lawyer could immediatley be reached for comment. The lawyer's secretary said he was traveling and a phone message left with Betancourt's agent in New York was not returned.Lecompte said Betancourt, 48, filed for divorce several months after the Colombian government rescued her in July 2008.Her memoir has already raised the ire of one of he...
Politician Ingrid Betancourt, 3 American Hostages Rescued From Colombian RebelsWednesday, July 02, 2008Print APFile: Ingrid Betancourt, former Colombian presidential...
Ingrid Betancourt, Chavez in Talks to Release Colombia's Rebel-Held HostagesMonday, December 08, 2008Print APDec. 8: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez greets former ...
Colombian Rebel, Rewarded for Freeing Kidnapped Politician, Tours With Ingrid BetancourtTuesday, December 09, 2008Print APDec. 8: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez g...
Son: Ingrid Betancourt Needs TransfusionWednesday, April 02, 2008By JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press WriterE-Mail Print Share: Digg Facebook StumbleUponPARIS — Fr...
Juan Manuel Santos is burdened by thorny challenges aplenty as he marks a year in office: sophisticated drug traffickers, criminal gangs marauding in the provinces, ...
Not until Johan Steven Martinez began school at age 4 did he learn why he had never met his father."I realized that all my friends were arriving with both parents," ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A former defense minister from a powerful political clan who oversaw a major weakening of leftist rebels won Colombia's presidency Sunday, ro...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The U.S. government has denied a visa to a prominent Colombian journalist who specializes in conflict and human rights reporting to attend a ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — After he was captured by leftist rebels, Luis Mendieta's status in Colombia's police force suddenly became his curse. The rebels' military ch...
BOGOTA (AP) — Three police officials and a soldier held hostage by rebels in the jungle for nearly 12 years rushed into the arms of tearful relatives Monday and appl...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt says that despite seeking $6.8 million in damages for her more than six years in jungle captivity, she has n...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt has asked Colombia's government to pay her $6.8 million for damages she suffered during six years in rebel c...
Their nationally televised releases were ecstatic celebrations, cathartic moments for a conflict-weary Colombia. Their rebel captors had held them in the jungle, oft...
Colombia's main rebel group freed what it says were its last 10 military and police captives, a goodwill gesture that President Juan Manuel Santos praised but called...
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Sgt. Luis Alfonso Beltran has endured 14 years of jungle prisons as a captive of leftist rebels while three of his aunts and uncles died and eigh...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The powerful rebel comandante who Colombian officials say died in the bombing of a clandestine jungle camp was nicknamed "Mono Jojoy" by his ...
Ingrid Betancourt divorce
Ingrid Betancourt to Receive Warm Welcome at French Presidential PalaceFriday, July 04, 2008Print APJuly 3: Ingrid Betancourt, center, embraces daughter Melanie as s...
Pope Benedict XVI to Meet Ingrid BetancourtFriday, July 04, 2008Print APJuly 3: Ingrid Betancourt, center, embraces daughter Melanie as son Lorenzo looks on after th...
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