12 November 2010

COLOMBIA; Betancourt Laments Nation's "Moral Stoning," Calling Her Treatment Worse Than Escobar's.

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     Former FARC captive Ingrid Betancourt believes Colombia has treated her “worse than a criminal” since her 2008 rescue.
     Betancourt told La Nacion: “There’s something uncomfortable in Colombia about my existence. I was treated as a criminal. Worse than a criminal because Pablo Escobar was never treated as I was.”
    Betancourt is on a long book tour promoting “Even silence has an end,”a book detailing her ordeal during more than six years of captivity as a FARC hostage in the Colombia's jungles.