The phenomenal hostage rescue mission in the jungle around Bogota, long planned and perfectly executed by the Colombian military yesterday, continues unfolding in the telling of its details. Not all of it is immediately evident, though the above photo comes close to revealing the part of the story not yet covered by major media.
…There are a few points these stories didn’t quite capture. Neither did the kidnappers.
After You’ve Spent Six Dreadful Years in the Jungle
And here’s a Reuters story about what Betancourt will do in the next few days, within her first week of freedom from the hellish bonds of captivity by “diabolical” captors committing “monstrous” acts that must have disgusted even themselves. We don’t want to even imagine what that might mean. After being given a near miraculous clean bill of health after that ordeal, she is not going off on a restful vacation. She’s going to one of the best known and beloved Marian shrines in the world.
Freed Franco-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt, a devout Catholic who prayed daily during six years in captivity, will visit the shrine of Lourdes in southwest France this week, a source close to her said on Monday.
Betancourt, who was held in the Colombian jungle by guerrillas of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, has compared her rescue by the Colombian army last week to a miracle.
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