By Victoria Bruce
A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of presidency negligence, company malfeasance, familial fight, medicines, politics, homicide, and a bold rescue operation within the Colombian jungle.
On July 2, 2008, while 3 American inner most contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt have been rescued after being held for greater than 5 years through the progressive military of Colombia (FARC), the realm used to be captivated through their own narratives. yet among the headlines an enormous tale was once misplaced: Who precisely are the FARC? How had a drug-funded innovative military controlled to carry such a lot of hostages for therefore lengthy? Had our expensive struggle on medications failed thoroughly? Hostage country answers those questions by means of exploring the advanced and corrupt political and socioeconomic occasions that enabled the FARC to realize remarkable power, impact, and impunity. It takes us in the back of the inside track tales to profile a tender progressive within the making, an elite Colombian banker-turned-guerrilla and the hard-driven American federal prosecutor decided to convict him on American soil, and a former FBI boss who labored tirelessly to finish the hostage hindrance whereas the U.S. govt omitted his most crucial tool—negotiation.
With extraordinary entry to the FARC’s hidden camps, extraordinary study, and lucid and prepared perception, the authors have produced a revelatory paintings of present historical past.
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S. government had any knowledge of the hostages’ whereabouts or even whether they were still alive. Knowing that we were bringing the video, Gary had invited one of the lead FBI investigators in the case, a State Department counterterrorism official, and the vice president of Northrop Grumman, the men’s employer. S. government not to attempt a rescue. Shortly after, even with the publicity generated by Botero’s footage of the men and our documentary film Held Hostage in Colombia, which aired on CBS’s 60 Minutes II, the History Channel, and in news reports around the world, there was little interest in the Americans’ story.
We met with senators, congresspeople, members of NGOs, and anyone else we felt could help bring attention to the story or do something to help the three Americans and hundreds of other Colombian hostages. We studied every bit of news about the FARC. We were, by turns, hopeful and fearful for the hostages when Colombian president Álvaro Uribe made conciliatory and then aggressive moves toward the guerrillas. For Botero, covering the hostage stories was even more overwhelming than it was for us. He made so many trips into the jungle to try to gain access to the hostages that at times we feared he would collapse from exhaustion.
0 To all the journalists who have died and to those who continue to risk their lives covering the violence in Colombia and the war on drugs. PROLOGUE In February 2003, a short news clip of a plane crash in the Colombian jungle grabbed our attention. We had spent the previous year making our first documentary film, The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt. It was assumed that three of the American crew members survived the crash and had been captured by Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) guerrillas, the same group that had held Ingrid for over a year.