From the archive: Ingrid Betancourt right, is rescued after 4 months of captivity in 2002. Betancourt was held captive for 18 months. Spanish government
TUESDAY IN GALAXY - JANUARY 8, 2013
Ingrid Betancourt has been murdered in a payback to the Colombian government for her capture and its efforts to free her. She was just 23 years old when she was kidnapped from her hometown of Caracas, Venezuela and transported to Colombia. The woman known as "Bettie" became a symbol of hope for millions.
The police work against the Colombian rebel forces, accused of abducting the beauty queen and arranging her release. This man had the details of the crime.
Ingrid was a former Miss Venezuela, a student and beauty queen kidnapped in Colombia in February 2002. She was later offered freedom in exchange for the capture and release of 23 high-ranking members of the FARC rebel group. The government accused FARC of misappropriating about $16 million in timber and forced labor during the military operations to free her.
Four years after her release, she was killed in a payback to the government, which is working to free hostages.
Video: security cams show the moment of the death
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What will they say when they realize she was murdered a week before she was going to be taken from an Ecuadorian hospital? When they find out that the evidence of her death could be a political and a diplomatic - because it happened just before the announcement of the presidential elections in Colombia.
The man who will bear the responsibility for the fact that a beautiful woman, freed after 18 months of captivity, died in Ecuador. The President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos denied the charges, saying that his administration was not responsible for the death of the former beauty queen. He said that the officials of Ecuador's Interior Ministry who denied the accusations were not government officials, and that the reports are not official.
In the video, you can see what happened to Ingrid Betancourt, who was kidnapped in Colombia in February 2002, after she was freed, and later died in Ecuador. The video of the case began circulating on the Internet over the last few days, becoming the object of suspicion that she was murdered a week before she was to be released from an Ecuadorian hospital.
On Monday, the Venezuelan Attorney General, Luisa Ortega Diaz, announced the arrest of a ac619d1d87
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