Ingrid Betancourt: What six years in captivity taught me about fear and faith
Ингрид Бетанкур: Что я узнала о страхе и вере за шесть лет плена
Ingrid Betancourt was a presidential candidate in Colombia in 2002 when she was kidnapped by guerilla rebels. After six years in captivity and a high-profile rescue, she now writes about what she learned about fear, forgiveness and the divine. Full bio
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I'd climb the highest tree,
на самые высокие деревья
any temperature."
Colombian politics,
деятельность в Колумбии,
to withstand any temperature.
and drug traffickers.
out of the country one morning,
in the French ambassador's armored car.
автомобиль посла Франции,
but emerged unharmed.
но я осталась невредима.
with the highest number of votes.
большинство колумбийцев.
because I was brave.
отметили меня за смелость.
candidate in Colombia
в президенты Колумбии,
by a group of armed men.
with military garments.
на них были резиновые сапоги.
wore leather boots.
ходят в кожаной обуви.
everything happened very quickly.
to stop the vehicle.
stepped on an antipersonnel mine
наступил на противопехотную мину.
that the young man understood:
because I'm reliving these emotions --
нахлынули воспоминания,
that something inside of me was breaking
with his fear.
и больше не могла ни о чём думать,
the deepest depths of the jungle,
was what was happening to my mind,
all the phone numbers,
to doubt my mental health.
в своём психическом здоровье.
behavioral changes
in moments of panic.
паники меня охватывала паранойя.
chained by the neck to a tree.
to use the bathroom.
the right moment, the right way to do it,
и ждала подходящего момента,
перед самой с собой.
when I talk about all of this,
переполняет меня эмоциями,
and mental block,
that the guerrillas had built
guns at us 24 hours a day.
вооружённые мужчины.
кричавших:
in numbered sequence.
call me by my name."
зовите меня по имени».
to that of the other hostages,
they would be punished.
to defend my identity,
отстоять свою личность,
a thing or a number.
в очередной номер.
supportive trust,
while I was in the jungle.
я не переставала чесаться.
scorpions, anacondas ...
with a 24-foot long anaconda
did us as much harm
they sparked betrayals,
for a long time was with Lucho.
for two years longer than I had.
to lower ourselves into that dark water
we would hide in the mangroves.
and let the current carry us.
through that with Lucho,
was so damaging to us
от обращения повстанцев,
that I want to give to you.
how to develop faith.
for more than eight years.
the biggest scaredy-cat of us all.
он был самым боязливым.
a master's degree in escape attempts.
чёрный пояс по побегам.
had to learn how to swim.
нужно было научиться плавать.
all these preparations in total secrecy.
had everything ready,
one afternoon and said,
and I can't find the way out.
и не могу выбраться.
and we started marching.
лагерь и отправиться в путь,
that Pincho had died,
что Пинчо погиб,
because they were torture for me.
that rescued me from the jungle."
который вывел меня из леса».
к разуму или эмоциям.
everything that we are --
we have inside of us
raging around our boat.
into the helicopter
as when they kidnapped me.
как и в день похищения.
referendum in Colombia;
по мирному соглашению в Колумбии
between Mexico and the United States;
of using fear politically
нас запугивают и вербуют.
our principles, unity, faith.
принципам, единству и вере.
вокруг которого мы выстраиваем
the first time I felt fear,
what to do with that fear.
как использовать этот страх.
until you reach the stars,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ingrid Betancourt - Writer, peace advocateIngrid Betancourt was a presidential candidate in Colombia in 2002 when she was kidnapped by guerilla rebels. After six years in captivity and a high-profile rescue, she now writes about what she learned about fear, forgiveness and the divine.
Why you should listen
Born December 25, 1961, in Colombia, Ingrid Betancourt is a French-Colombian activist in the cause of freedom. She was a politician and presidential candidate in Colombia, celebrated for her determination to combat widespread corruption. In February 2002 she was taken hostage by the FARC, a communist guerrilla organization. For six and a half years, the FARC held her hostage in the Amazonian jungle. She was rescued on July 2, 2008.
Since her release, Betancourt has become a memoirist and fiction writer. Her first book, Even Silence Has Its End, which lyrically recounts her six years in the impenetrable jungle, was published in 2010. In 2016, she published a second work -- this time of fiction -- called The Blue Line, about the disappearances in Argentina during the Dirty War from 1976 to 1983.
Betancourt has received multiple international awards, including the French National Order of the Légion d’Honneur, the Spanish Prince of Asturias Prize of Concord, the Italian Prize Grinzane Cavour, and was nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize for her commitment to democratic values, freedom and tolerance.
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