Ingrid Betancourt's Six Years In The Jungle - by NPR Staff

(Listen to her story using the link below)

"At the beginning, I thought it was going to be for a couple of weeks," Betancourt tells NPR’s Guy Raz. "Then I thought, perhaps a couple of months, because it was just lingering, and I said, 'OK, perhaps till the end of the presidential campaign,' and then when a year went on, I thought, my god, this is a year now?"
She tells the story of her time with the FARC in a new book, Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle.
Betancourt spent most of her time in one main prison camp along with other hostages.
"We were … confined in a very small space," she says, "surrounded with barbed wire. And in this very confined space, we had to live with people we didn’t know, men and women all together."

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