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	<title>Comments on: Ingrid Betancourt&#8217;s letter</title>
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	<description>Peace, security, human rights and the U.S. role in Latin America, from the Center for International Policy.</description>
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		<title>By: Ingjerd</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-4388</link>
		<dc:creator>Ingjerd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just saw you speaking on the television in my country - far away from Colombia,  - a ten minutes interview. After the interview I looked you- and your letter to your mom, up - here at the internet. I have not red your book, but from your letter and from seeing you and hearing you, I got tears in my eyes. You move me deeply. Your mother must truly be a strong and wonderful woman, and the same for you. Without doubt. It is so great that you are now not longer captured, that you finally can be with your family again. Thank you for courage to stand in the official light and telling your story. Thank you. I wish for you a good future, a really good future. Good luck in your life and in all of your choices. :)
My deepest of regards to you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just saw you speaking on the television in my country &#8211; far away from Colombia,  &#8211; a ten minutes interview. After the interview I looked you- and your letter to your mom, up &#8211; here at the internet. I have not red your book, but from your letter and from seeing you and hearing you, I got tears in my eyes. You move me deeply. Your mother must truly be a strong and wonderful woman, and the same for you. Without doubt. It is so great that you are now not longer captured, that you finally can be with your family again. Thank you for courage to stand in the official light and telling your story. Thank you. I wish for you a good future, a really good future. Good luck in your life and in all of your choices. <img src='http://www.cipcol.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
My deepest of regards to you!</p>
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		<title>By: Lelia B</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-3610</link>
		<dc:creator>Lelia B</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was so touched by this letter and Ingrid&#039;s life story with such an intensity. Thank you Ingrid for being such an example to all of us. Thank you for sharing your life with the rest of us. You are an excepcional person. I also want to celebrate her rescue, her freedom and her family. Mrs. Pulecio is a courageous mother! My heart also goes to her. I wish I could meet Ingrid and her mom personally. I was ecstatic, thrilled, when I found out from my son, mom,  INGRID BETANCOURT is free!!! WOW, what a feeling!

I want to add that Presidente Uribe deserves credit and a great recognition for his tireless work in Colombia. I am thankful for the work he is doing. Maybe USA was able to help more because Uribe is there. I have been travelling to Colombia and every time, I find a safer and cleaner country. This was not happening for decades. Now, people can drive from city to city, mas paseos and more work and people are enjoying more security. 

May God Bless Ingrid, her family and Colombia.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was so touched by this letter and Ingrid&#8217;s life story with such an intensity. Thank you Ingrid for being such an example to all of us. Thank you for sharing your life with the rest of us. You are an excepcional person. I also want to celebrate her rescue, her freedom and her family. Mrs. Pulecio is a courageous mother! My heart also goes to her. I wish I could meet Ingrid and her mom personally. I was ecstatic, thrilled, when I found out from my son, mom,  INGRID BETANCOURT is free!!! WOW, what a feeling!</p>
<p>I want to add that Presidente Uribe deserves credit and a great recognition for his tireless work in Colombia. I am thankful for the work he is doing. Maybe USA was able to help more because Uribe is there. I have been travelling to Colombia and every time, I find a safer and cleaner country. This was not happening for decades. Now, people can drive from city to city, mas paseos and more work and people are enjoying more security. </p>
<p>May God Bless Ingrid, her family and Colombia.</p>
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		<title>By: innocent adiele onyeji</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-3583</link>
		<dc:creator>innocent adiele onyeji</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i praise Jehova God for ur release madam betancourt. To god be the glory forever and ever. Amen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i praise Jehova God for ur release madam betancourt. To god be the glory forever and ever. Amen.</p>
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		<title>By: Sister Felipa Gonzalez</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-3527</link>
		<dc:creator>Sister Felipa Gonzalez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>IF POSSIBLE I WILL LIKE TO GET IN TOUCH WITH INGRID BETANCOURT
THANKS</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IF POSSIBLE I WILL LIKE TO GET IN TOUCH WITH INGRID BETANCOURT<br />
THANKS</p>
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		<title>By: MAURICIO VALLEDUPAR</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-3469</link>
		<dc:creator>MAURICIO VALLEDUPAR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>POOR THE ONE WHO WITH AN UNGREATFUL CONCIOUS DOESN&#039;T REALIZE HOW MUCH MORALLY WE OWE TO OUR FRIEND USA</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>POOR THE ONE WHO WITH AN UNGREATFUL CONCIOUS DOESN&#8217;T REALIZE HOW MUCH MORALLY WE OWE TO OUR FRIEND USA</p>
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		<title>By: MAURICIO VALLEDUPAR</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-3468</link>
		<dc:creator>MAURICIO VALLEDUPAR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>INGRID, YOU GO GIRL!
LET&#039;S KEEP IN MIND THAT THE LIBERATION OF INGRID IS JUST A GRAIN OF SAND  FROM THE OCEAN, OF THE MANY GOODS THAT AMERICA HAS  DONE FOR US COLOMBIANS</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>INGRID, YOU GO GIRL!<br />
LET&#8217;S KEEP IN MIND THAT THE LIBERATION OF INGRID IS JUST A GRAIN OF SAND  FROM THE OCEAN, OF THE MANY GOODS THAT AMERICA HAS  DONE FOR US COLOMBIANS</p>
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		<title>By: mmischla</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-3355</link>
		<dc:creator>mmischla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Alleluia, Little Sister!  Your Freedom comes in USA Freedomweek!  Joy will overshadow sorrow!  Let it be so, Merci &amp; Godspeed!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alleluia, Little Sister!  Your Freedom comes in USA Freedomweek!  Joy will overshadow sorrow!  Let it be so, Merci &amp; Godspeed!</p>
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		<title>By: joel castillo</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-3348</link>
		<dc:creator>joel castillo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Senora Ingrid Betancourt, El dia de ayer fue uno de los dias mas felices en mi vida, el saber que habia sido liberada causo en mi una enorme alegria, pues es Usted un orgullo a seguir admiro su fortaleza y su lucha, y quizas mis plegarias unidas a las de todos los que oramos por Usted sirvio de algo para que Usted pudiera ser liberada, nada en este mundo me hara mas feliz que algun dia tener la dicha de poder conocerla en persona, que Dios la bendiga hoy y siempre al igual que a toda su familia y seres queridos, reciba un fuerte abrazo y un beso de uno de sus mas ferbientes admiradores, Joel Castillo</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Senora Ingrid Betancourt, El dia de ayer fue uno de los dias mas felices en mi vida, el saber que habia sido liberada causo en mi una enorme alegria, pues es Usted un orgullo a seguir admiro su fortaleza y su lucha, y quizas mis plegarias unidas a las de todos los que oramos por Usted sirvio de algo para que Usted pudiera ser liberada, nada en este mundo me hara mas feliz que algun dia tener la dicha de poder conocerla en persona, que Dios la bendiga hoy y siempre al igual que a toda su familia y seres queridos, reciba un fuerte abrazo y un beso de uno de sus mas ferbientes admiradores, Joel Castillo</p>
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		<title>By: Mady</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-3215</link>
		<dc:creator>Mady</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I heard today you were saved!! I&#039;m so happy!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I heard today you were saved!! I&#8217;m so happy!</p>
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		<title>By: Jeanmarie Amend</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-2548</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeanmarie Amend</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Ingrid, Pres vous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Ingrid, Pres vous.</p>
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		<title>By: Jusiris Arias</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-2444</link>
		<dc:creator>Jusiris Arias</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Acabo de leer la carta dirigida a la madre de Ingrid Betancourt me dio mucha nostalgia pero mas aun coraje para poder ver la vida de diferente perspectiva.  Ella es una mujer luchadora con coraje la admiro intajantemente en este mundo faltan muchas mas Ingrid Betancourt para que fuese mas solido.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Acabo de leer la carta dirigida a la madre de Ingrid Betancourt me dio mucha nostalgia pero mas aun coraje para poder ver la vida de diferente perspectiva.  Ella es una mujer luchadora con coraje la admiro intajantemente en este mundo faltan muchas mas Ingrid Betancourt para que fuese mas solido.</p>
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		<title>By: Marisel Walston</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-2343</link>
		<dc:creator>Marisel Walston</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ingrid que Dios te bendiga.  Tu carta me rompe el corazon.  

I hope you are free soon and  with your loved ones.  I will add you to my prayers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ingrid que Dios te bendiga.  Tu carta me rompe el corazon.  </p>
<p>I hope you are free soon and  with your loved ones.  I will add you to my prayers.</p>
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		<title>By: Claudio Brumen</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-2320</link>
		<dc:creator>Claudio Brumen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Igrid, we wish for you the most speedy release so that you can return to your family. My fear is that for political reasons Uribe&#039;s actions are jeopardizing your and other&#039;s release.

Nobody should go through what you have gone through, but it appears that it will all be over soon. Keep your chin up and I hope that you soon return to fight for political change in Colombia.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Igrid, we wish for you the most speedy release so that you can return to your family. My fear is that for political reasons Uribe&#8217;s actions are jeopardizing your and other&#8217;s release.</p>
<p>Nobody should go through what you have gone through, but it appears that it will all be over soon. Keep your chin up and I hope that you soon return to fight for political change in Colombia.</p>
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		<title>By: NORMA</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-2091</link>
		<dc:creator>NORMA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dont give up, we are with you, be strong, God bless you honey!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dont give up, we are with you, be strong, God bless you honey!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Diana</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-1773</link>
		<dc:creator>Diana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve also read the book and I actually used it as my research for a project on corruption in school.  It was a great book and yes she is a very corageous woman; one to admired and look up to.  One major thing that i have to disagree with you is that in my opinion YES colombia is worthy of that and more.  I do not know your orgin but with all do respect... if you are colombian no wonder we are finding it so hard to find peace and a needed change in our country with mentalities like yours.  I would like to close my argument with a quote by the famous Leader Ghanddi &quot;YOU MUST be the change YOU WISH to see in the world&quot;.  si toda la humanidad aportara constantemente algo positivo seriamos un mundo MEJOR!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve also read the book and I actually used it as my research for a project on corruption in school.  It was a great book and yes she is a very corageous woman; one to admired and look up to.  One major thing that i have to disagree with you is that in my opinion YES colombia is worthy of that and more.  I do not know your orgin but with all do respect&#8230; if you are colombian no wonder we are finding it so hard to find peace and a needed change in our country with mentalities like yours.  I would like to close my argument with a quote by the famous Leader Ghanddi &#8220;YOU MUST be the change YOU WISH to see in the world&#8221;.  si toda la humanidad aportara constantemente algo positivo seriamos un mundo MEJOR!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: flor bustos</title>
		<link>http://www.cipcol.org/?p=508&#038;cpage=1#comment-1607</link>
		<dc:creator>flor bustos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just finnished reading Ingrid&#039;s book, Till Death Do Us Apart, and really I have to admit that Ingrid is a very corageous woman, a woman with integrity and true ideals for her country and her people.  A woman that had to be silenced for the sake of the narcotrafic, the Colombian government and its corrupt politicians. Colombia is a country that have been on war since 1947 and the drug traffic worsen the situation along with the guerrilas who lost their initial ideals and joined the drug cartels.  Reading this book one understands how corrupted  that country is, and one must ask  if Ingrid&#039;s sacrifice and mainly that of her children is worthy of Colombia...I dare to say NO!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just finnished reading Ingrid&#8217;s book, Till Death Do Us Apart, and really I have to admit that Ingrid is a very corageous woman, a woman with integrity and true ideals for her country and her people.  A woman that had to be silenced for the sake of the narcotrafic, the Colombian government and its corrupt politicians. Colombia is a country that have been on war since 1947 and the drug traffic worsen the situation along with the guerrilas who lost their initial ideals and joined the drug cartels.  Reading this book one understands how corrupted  that country is, and one must ask  if Ingrid&#8217;s sacrifice and mainly that of her children is worthy of Colombia&#8230;I dare to say NO!</p>
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