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Ingrid Betancourt

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2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was unbelievable. It's unbelievable. You know, and so even when you read the book, I knew what the ending was going to be, obviously, because you were free to write it, but it is incredible the way that happened. It's like the movies. It's like something out of a movie. Tell us what it was like on that helicopter”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wow. The plan to free Ingrid and 14 other hostages dubbed Operation Checkmate was as nail biting and suspenseful as a Hollywood thriller. Posing a spark terrorist commanders, members of the Colombian military, hacked into the guerrilla's radio exchanges, ordering Ingrid and the 14 others be flown to meet the new rebel leader. Soldiers from Colombia's special forces took acting lessons in order to pass as aid workers in charge of transporting the group. Once in the air, special forces announced to Ingrid and the 14 other hostages that they are finally free.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now we have the impression at the end of the book, those of you who are going to read it, that there was some kind of romantic thing going on, was it? And the whole time I was thinking, how could there possibly be romance? You almost smell like hell.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But if you're also living in the same conditions, being treated as hostily as you were being treated, and your name isn't being mentioned. Yeah, you feel like I'm here too.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, imagine you're the others who had already listed themselves as numbers. They'd be pretty tick with you, Miss Ingrid Bettenc”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What's interesting, you write in the book how after a while you started to act the way the gorillas treated you. They treated you like animals and you started to behave like animals.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But now you looking back because you are very self-aware woman. It's very clear from what you've written here that you have done a lot of thinking about yourself. Introspect Would you say in that environment that what you projected was arrogance and selfishness?”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What's your response to their criticism Can you see where there is validity in their criticism? Can you understand why they wouldn't like you?”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I was reading, even Silence Has an In, I thought not going to fare well with many of the other people who were captured with you, particularly every time you run away, it would cause problems for everybody, the kind of person who has the courage to keep running away would necessarily get along well with everybody else. And you were consistently defiant. There is a passage, a time in the book where you wrote where all the radios were stripped and taken away and you, the defiant one, kept yours and hid it. And that caused a lot of problems with everyone else because, and I put myself in their shoes, I would have been terrified that even reading it, I'm thinking any moment they're going to find that radio and they're going to chop your head off and then they're going to punish everybody else who knew the You had the radio.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“After her release, Ingrid Betancourt was celebrated as a hero, even awarded France's highest honor by President Nicholas Sarkozy. But some of Ingrid's fellow hostages saw things very differently. Keith Stanzel and others alleged Ingrid was arrogant, bossy, and took more than her fair share of food. Even Ingritt's former campaign manager, Clara Rojas, clashed with Betancourt in captivity, writing in her memoir that Ingrid went, quote, from being a role model to someone who represented death, becoming extremely apathetic and bitter. And in Vanity Fair magazine, fellow hostage Gloria Polanco expressed her feelings very bluntly, saying, let's not make symbols and icons out of women who aren't.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That is a mother's love. Every day she would go to that radio station and broadcast, hoping that her daughter would have a radio in the jungle. There was a place where a station where they let the families of people who'd been captured leave messages. Did you hear the messages on the radio?”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yolanda Ingrid's mother does not speak English, so Melanie's going to translate. But Yolanda, you went on the radio almost every day, but had no idea if Ingrid was listening or not. Did that matter if she was listening or not?”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So were you at some point three, four years in? Were you trying to then move on and trying to have a quote normal life? Or was your mother being held captive always a part of everything that you did? It colored everything.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For much of the time Ingrid was held hostage, her family living in France had no idea if she was dead or alive, and she writes that her family was her son and her moon and stars during captivity, and that memories of her children's kisses, as many of you mothers can imagine, was her lifeline, Ingrid's daughter Melanie, and her mother Yolanda are here, her son Lorenzo is studying for exams in Franton and couldn't be here. Melanie, during that time, did you at all have any idea that she was alive? What were you feeling during that time? You had to build a life for yourself without your mother.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Help with the transition. To be there. And so that's how you had always imagined it, and then you were not there. And I can see that still very hard for you. In France and her native Colombia, Ingrid Betencourt's family and friends worked tirelessly to secure her release. Weeks turned into months, months turned into years. Just sixteen and thirteen when their mother was abducted, daughter Melanie and San Lorenzo joined supporters at rallies and protests, hoping to keep their mother's story alive. They even lobbied the president of France on their mother's behalf. The family was able to send love and support to Ingrid through a Colombian radio program, devoted to broadcasting messages to the nearly 700 hostages being held across the country. Ingrid's own mother, Yolanda, called into that radio show almost daily. And Ingrid's beloved father, Gabriel, expressed hope that someday they would be reunited.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ingrid Bettencourt was held hostage for six and a half years in the Amazon jungle. Her new book, it's called Even Silence Has an End. And I say you're one of the bravest mothers I've ever even heard or read about. It's one thing to be captured and you think it's going to be three months and then a year passes. And then there's that whole realization. It's now been a year. And then two years pass. How do you literally keep yourself going when you don't know if it's going to be two more years or 20 years? Did your faith get stronger? Did you become a more spiritually conscious person?”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was so moved by that because I can't imagine having a chain around your neck and being marched in front of all of the other people who'd been captive and humiliated that way. And in that moment were you able to free yourself of hatred or did that come later?”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“After one escape attempt, the guards beat you, and when they caught you, put a chain around your neck and walked you back to camp on a leash like a dog. Will you mind reading the passage on page 16”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You tried to escape at least four times, and you say that the fear of getting caught really was worse than your fear of dying.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Imagine being forced to live in that for six and a half years. That is what happened to Ingrid Betancourt, who in 2002 was kidnapped by terrorists during her presidential campaign in her native Columbia, South America. And she became the world's most famous hostage. You say the bugs were torture. Explain why.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Despite the beautiful images of the Amazonian rainforest, it's a hostile and deadly place. Dark, steamy, and wet. The thread of yellow fever, malaria, and typhoid is ever present. Jaguars, wild boars, and more than 100 species of snakes thrive in this jungle. Rivers teem with leeches, piranhas, electric eels, crocodiles, And Anacondas. The Amazon is a lie with more insects than any other place on Earth. Scorpions, beetles, wasps, spiders, and hundreds of different types of tarantulas flourish in the humidity. And the noise they make is deafening.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You write on page 434 that I vowed not to look at the size of the portions anymore and take whatever I was served. However, the next morning when they unlocked my padlock, despite my resolution to behave like a fine lady, the demon in me got out when it smelled the Arepa. And I realized to my dismay that I was ready to bite the hand of anyone who tried to take my turn. It's not like it was all that good”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A book about her ordeal called Even Silence Has an End. I really couldn't put the book down. It is five hundred twenty eight jaw dropping, heart pounding pages. It is spelled binding. And when you read this book, you will feel like you really are in the jungle with ingrading. Describe what your living space was like.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Provide her with armed escorts. Despite the warnings, she decided to make her trip anyway. With her campaign manager, Clara Rojas, another staffer, and two journalists. Thirty miles into the drive, their car approached a checkpoint manned by FARC guerrillas.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Before we go any further, here is some background for those of you who are not familiar with Ingrid's story. Ingrid was a senator in her native Columbia when she decided to run for the president of that country. She did not anticipate that a campaign stop would end up being the worst day of her life. In 2001, Ingrid Battencourt launched her bid for president of war-torn Colombia for nearly 50 years the country has been waging a war against a homegrown guerrilla group known as ZARC, who for years have terrorized the population with bombings, murders, and thousands of kidnappings. During her presidential campaign, Ingrid met with FARC leaders. On February 23, 2002, she headed to a campaign stop in the town of San Vicinte, located in a region controlled by the FARC, the Colombian military cautioned Ingrid against traveling to this dangerous area and even refused”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have never heard a more incredible story of survival, of strength, of courage in my life. Ingrid Betancourt is one of the most brave women I have ever heard of. For the first time since her nail biting rescue two years ago, Ingrid is ready to tell the intimate details of her six and a half years as a hostage deep in the jungles of South America. Welcome, Ingrid Bettencork. Have a seat. Well, I was pleased to get a galley of this earlier in the summer, and it reads like fiction. It's hard to believe that you actually live through that”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The moments that mat Eye opening, light lessons. Never allow them to take you somewhere else. I'm bringing them back. It's time to open the vault. I've personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again. Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire. They want to know, do you see me? Do you hear me? Does what I say mean anything to you? You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey Show, the podcast. This being forced to bathe in rivers, teeming with deadly fish and snakes twenty feet long, swarmed night and day by armies of stinging and biting insects, needing permission to go to the bathroom, being chained by your neck to a tree, and walked Like a dog. Waking up every morning, asking yourself, is today the day I'm going to die?”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Through twenty-five seasons 45 sixty one episodes. I believe the Oprah Winfrey Show was one of the greatest classrooms in the world. I really never thought of it that way. The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the LOLs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.”
2022-03-15 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · The Bravest Mom In The World Set Free: Ingrid Betancourt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source