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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE INK RID BETANCOURT RECOUNT HER KIDNAPPING IN, "EVEN THE SILENCE HAS TO END: MY SIX YEARS OF CAPTIVITY IN THE COLOMBIAN JUNGLE."...
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| 00:02:50 |
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INGRID BETANCOURT. EVEN SILENCE HAS AN END, IS THE TITLE OF HER BOOK, MY SIX YEARS OF CAPTIVITY IN THE COLOMBIAN JUNK L. .. AND IT'S REALLY A DELIGHT...
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| 00:03:49 |
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YOU ALL FOR BEING WITH US THIS EVENING. AND, WELL, IT WAS A SATURDAY EIGHT YEARS AGO. AND I WAS IN A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. I HAD TO GO TO A VILLAGE...
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| 00:08:47 |
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WEEKS -- WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN? >> WELL, I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE SOMETHING -- I MEAN, FOR ME THREE WEEKS WAS LIKE A VERY LONG
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| 00:09:01 |
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TIME. AND I THOUGHT, MY GOD, I'M GOING TO STAY HERE A WEEK, TWO WEEKS, PERHAPS THREE WEEKS? THAT'S GOING TO BE AWFUL. AND THEN THREE WEEKS PASSED AND...
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| 00:09:43 |
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ABOUT THE NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PLACES WHERE YOU WERE AND HOW DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO ARE WITH YOU BUT REALLY THE CONDITIONS WHICH TIMES WERE REALLY QUITE...
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| 00:10:04 |
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OF MY ABDUCTION I COUNTED MORE THAN 20 CAMPS WHERE WE WERE JUST CHANGING. AFTER I LOST THE COUNT. BUT WE WERE ALWAYS TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM THE MILITARY...
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| 00:11:49 |
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EATING? >> WHEN WE WERE AT A CAMP, IF WE WERE LUCKY WE COULD CLEAN UP IN HAMMOCKS OR WE COULD SLEEP
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| 00:11:58 |
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IN BEDS THAT WE WOULD MAKE WITH LOGS. OF COURSE, IMAGINE WHAT IT'S LIKE TO SLEEP ON A MATTRESS OF LOGS BUT YOU GET USED TO IT, ALSO. IF NOT, WE WOULD...
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| 00:13:26 |
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ME WAS HOW BIG IT WAS BECAUSE I REALIZED THAT IT WAS BIGGER THAN ME. AND SO I THOUGHT IT COULD HAVE SWALLOWED ME WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM. AND SO BECAUSE...
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| 00:13:53 |
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THOSE WATERS WITHOUT HAVING SEEN WHAT LURKS, YOU KNOW, CAN YOU -- I WAS REALLY -- I FOUND IT VERY COMPELLING YOUR DESCRIPTION -- YOUR NEED TO ESCAPE...
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| 00:14:27 |
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AUTHORITY. AND THEY DO A VERY EFFECTIVE BRAINWASH IN THE SENSE THAT THEY TRY TO CONVINCE THAT YOU'RE GUILTY OF SOMETHING AND THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT...
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| 00:20:03 |
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YOU TO INDULGE ME IN A READING, IF YOU WILL. YOU DIDN'T -- AN AUTHOR THAT IS TRAVELING WITHOUT HER BOOK. [LAUGHTER] >> SHE MUST HAVE MEMORIZED THE PIECE....
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| 00:20:19 |
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BEAUTIFUL. IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND READING THIS BECAUSE I THINK IT ALSO SPEAKS TO THIS ISSUE ABOUT THE URGE TO ESCAPE AND THE NEED TO ESCAPE AND WHAT...
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| 00:20:41 |
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DEEPLY REVEALING THIS IMMENSITY OF THIS UNKNOWN SPACE. THE CACOPHONY REACHED A PAINFUL VOLUME. IT EXHAUSTED OUR BRAINS WITH ITS VIBRATIONS. THIS WAS...
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| 00:22:22 |
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SUSTAINED YOU, THE THINGS THAT KEPT YOU FROM BREAKING UNDER THE PRESSURES OF YOUR ISOLATION AND THE BRUTALITY WITH WHICH YOU WERE BEING TREATED AND...
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| 00:22:41 |
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LOVE. THE ONLY EXPLANATION FOR BEING ABLE TO JUST FACE THE SITUATION -- WE HAD TO COPE WAS LOVE. FIRST THE LOVE OF MY CHILDREN, THE LOVE OF MY PARENTS....
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| 00:26:46 |
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ONE OF THE ONES THAT REALLY I SUPPOSE WAS QUITE GRIPPED BY WAS THE STORY OF THE -- I'M GOING TO CALL IT THE CABBAGE WRAPPINGS. I WONDER IF YOU CAN...
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| 00:27:06 |
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ME. WE NORMALLY EVER HAD ANY KIND OF VEGETABLES COMING IN THE CAMPS. WE ONLY ATE RICE AND BEANS. BUT ONE DAY THERE WERE AN ARRIVAL OF CABBAGES AND...
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| 00:28:56 |
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SORRY. I'M BEING HELPED. I'LL GET OVER THIS AT THIS TIME. >> I THOUGHT OFTEN IN BOOK THAT IT WAS A THERAPEUTIC PROCESS FOR YOU. AND TALK ABOUT THAT
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| 00:29:20 |
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BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF COMMENTARY ABOUT DISCOVERING THINGS ABOUT YOURSELF THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW AND THEY WERE UNANTICIPATED. >> WELL, THE THING IS...
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| 00:29:35 |
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THIS. MY CHILDREN, MY MOTHER, MY FAMILY. I KNEW THEY WERE WAITING FOR ME TO JUST TELL THEM WHAT HAPPENED AND I COULDN'T. AND I STILL CANNOT. I MEAN,...
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| 00:31:04 |
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A DAILY BASIS AND I COULD SEE THAT THEY HAD JUST MOVED ON IN THEIR LIVES AND THEY WERE JUST, YOU KNOW, DOING FINE AND I THOUGHT, THIS IS MASOCHISM. BUT...
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| 00:32:14 |
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THAT. WHAT ARE THE ISSUES AND WHAT ARE PEOPLE UNDERSTANDING OR MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO? >> WELL, I THINK THAT BEFORE I WROTE...
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| 00:32:33 |
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BOOK. AND I THINK IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT THEY JUST SAID WHAT THEY THOUGHT. BUT I THINK ALSO -- PERHAPS BECAUSE -- I DON'T KNOW THE REASON. BUT IT CAME...
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| 00:34:02 |
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OTHER, AND IT WAS ALSO THE STRATEGY. THEY NEEDED TO DIVIDE US BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID THAT BECAUSE WE WERE TOGETHER WE COULD ATTEMPT ESCAPE TOGETHER...
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| 00:37:07 |
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OF INGRID BETANCOURT. AND, PLEASE, STEP UP TO THE MICROPHONE. ASK WHILE WE WAIT FOR PEOPLE -- AND WHILE WE WAIT FOR PEOPLE TO COME, I'LL ASK A QUESTION...
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| 00:37:43 |
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IT NOT AS BEAUTIFUL AS IT SHOULD IN BE. THE PROBLEM IN THE JUNGLE WASN'T THE JUNGLE. IT'S THE HUMANS IN THE JUNGLE. >> IT WASN'T THE ANACONDAS, IT WAS...
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| 00:37:59 |
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WE HAVE ABOUT TEN MINUTES. IF YOU'D KEEP YOUR QUESTIONS SHORT, WE'LL TRY TO GET THROUGH AS MANY AS WE CAN. >> CAN YOU HEAR ME? GOOD. >>
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| 00:38:23 |
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YEAH. >> INGRID, FIRST OF ALL, A LOT OF RESPECT FOR THE ENDEAVOR AND SUFFERING YOU HAD TO UNDERGO. I HAVE NOT
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| 00:38:31 |
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READ YOUR BOOK, I -- BUT I WILL. >> THANK YOU. >> I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS. HUGO CHAVEZ WAS VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN THE LIBERATION
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| 00:38:44 |
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OF THESE HOSTAGES. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THEM, AND ARE THEY AS EVIL AND DESPICABLE AS THE U.S. AND COLOMBIA MEDIA PORTRAY THEM TO BE? NUMBER TWO, WHY...
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| 00:39:23 |
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OKAY. >> I THINK WE'RE GOING TO TO -- [LAUGHTER] >> OKAY. HUGO CHAVEZ AND PIERRE CORDON. THEY
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| 00:39:38 |
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WERE VERY EFFECTIVE IN BRINGING TO FREEDOM EIGHT OF MY FELLOW HOSTAGES, AND FOR THAT WE ONLY CAN SAY THANK YOU. THE SECOND QUESTION ABOUT -- WELL, OKAY....
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| 00:42:55 |
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THANK
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| 00:42:56 |
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YOU. WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG, WAS A RANSOM DEMANDED AND NO ONE TO PAY
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| 00:43:02 |
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IT? WHAT TOOK IT SO LONG? WHY WERE YOU THERE SO LONG. >> >> YEAH. VERY GOOD QUESTION. ACTUALLY THERE WAS NO RANSOM, THERE WAS NO ECONOMIC RANSOM ASKED...
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| 00:43:12 |
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THAT THE FARC HAD ABDUCTED TO EXCHANGE US FOR GUERRILLAS IN COLOMBIAN JAILS. AND IS AT FIRST THAT WAS WHAT THEY WANTED. BUT THEN THEY REALIZED THAT...
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| 00:44:28 |
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WHEN YOU BECAME KIDNAPPED,
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| 00:44:30 |
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YOU BECAME THE MOTHER, SISTER AND AUNT, DAUGHTER, FRIEND FOR ALL COLOMBIA. WE CRIED FOR YOU, WE PRAYED FOR YOU. THE DAY YOU WERE LIBERATED, WE WERE...
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| 00:45:03 |
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IMPORTANT TO EXPLAIN. SOME MONTHS AGO I DID A PROCEDURE IN COLOMBIA TO CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION FOR MY ABDUCTION. THIS IS A LAW THAT EXISTS IN COLOMBIA...
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| 00:48:04 |
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COURAGEOUS STORY. [APPLAUSE] AND THANK YOU FOR COMING TODAY. [APPLAUSE] [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] >> I'D LIKE TO ANNOUNCE, I FAILED TO ANNOUNCE THAT...
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| 00:48:53 |
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JUST TEN MINUTES. SO, PLEASE, SHE'LL VISIT WITH YOU THERE, SIGN YOUR BOOKS. THANK YOU. [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS] [INAUDIBLE...
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| 00:52:41 |
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FORMER COLOMBIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, INGRID BETANCOURT, RECOUNT HER KIDNAPPING IN HER NEW BOOK, "EVEN SILENCE HAS TO END. "BookTV WILL HAVE MORE...
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| 00:53:29 |
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A QUICK LOOK AT ONE OF
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