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They confirm Betancourt romance in the forest |
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| Ingrid Betancourt (right), along with Luis Eladio Pérez, during the presentation of the book “Green Hell” in Madrid, on September 24, 2008, when there still had not been confirmed the romance through that both lived like hostages of the FARC. Photo: Paul White / AP |
Buenos Aires
Agencies
The rumors that they were indicating that the franco-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt supported a romance with ex-senator Luis Eladio Pérez, while both were kidnapped, they had been almost confirmed by the recent publication of the book “Out of Captivity, surviving 1.967 days in the Colombian forest”.
In the same one, his authors Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Tom Howes, the Americans who shared the captivity along with Pérez and Betancourt, speak about the romance lived between the ex-candidate to president of Colombia and the ex-official.
Nevertheless, in this week there stopped being confirmed everything what was supposed and was an open secret. Ángela Rodríguez, Pérez's wife, accepted the relation supported in the forest, although it justified it, after the explanations that his husband gave him.
The woman also revealed that in the nights of insomnia (before the revelation) he was saying: "If this rumor becomes true: what happens? I am not anybody to judge my husband. He was living through a hell and in these conditions a friendly hand, a smile, a hug they turn into essential things to survive”.
Now, Rodríguez tries to go forward with his life and his marriage, which “is fighting to go out very much forward”, as there spread two means that interviewed it.
In the book “Out of Captivity”, Stansell affirmed that “the relation between Luis Eladio and Ingrid was going beyond a friendship” and said to be a witness of how “Betancourt was sharing the bed” with the ex-conferee. In his first public declarations on the topic, Angela de Pérez accepted, in interview published on Tuesday, the 10th by the newspapers Clarion, of Argentina, and The Time, of Colombia, the existence of a relation of his husband and the presidential ex-candidate.
She told that during more than 6 years that the sequestration lasted on the part of the guerrillas of the FARC, he asked God for the patience sufficient for comprehension the man of his life, of there turned out to be true the rumors that were coming to his ears on the existence of a romance between this one and her also hostage Ingrid Betancourt.
And to to wonder him for the content of the book, he affirmed that “if to write that was necessary for his process of emotional recovery (of the American hostages), it is good that they have done it”.
“ It helps me that during all the time of Luis's captivity, my family love and my love of couple grew in the middle of the adversity and how difficult it was to be without him”, it pronounced itself.
THE REACTION OF THE CHILDREN
Truth affects the family
Angela Rodríguez de Pérez answered this way to the press to to wonder him for the reaction of his children on having known the painful truth:
“ I told them that this rumor existed but at the same time I invited them to to react based on the comprehension, on the respect towards his father and in the love. My daughter went so far as even to show to me that he was considering this episode to be unbeatable”.
“ And I said to them that we should not take any determination without earlier without speaking with him, because to reconstruct our family there had to be a position of frankness and sincerity, without questions”.
“ During our conversation he asked me to understand it. That this relation was basically a product of a very big solidarity with a woman that he spent for the same hell that, and in that against her the worst outrage could be committed also in his woman's condition”.
“ It embraced me and crying he was asking me to understand it and this is what I have tried to do”.
Honduras
Drug trafficker - light aircraft
The embassy of the United States in Tegucigalpa denied on Tuesday, the 10th that helicopters of this country should have knocked down a light aircraft loaded with any more than 1.000 kilos of cocaine in the north region of Honduras, which pilot died calcined. The spokesman of the safety Secretariat, Héctor Iván Mejía, pointed out that “the case is investigated... and there are two versions: one, that the drug traffickers landed the light aircraft and set fire to him, and other one that the pilot operated evil and smashed”.
Panama
They all deny
The candidates oficialistas to the presidency and to the of the capital mayoralty pushed back to have received money of the Colombian David Murcia, prisoner in a jail of Bogota for the supposed one defrauds, who said that Roberto Velázquez invested three million dollars in the presidential campaign of Balbina Herrera and another equal sum in that of the candidate to the of the capital mayoralty.
Costa Rica
Strong quake
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Guatemala
“Historical error”
The Bolivian president Evo Morales asked on Wednesday, the 11th the Commission of Narcotics of the United Nations, in Vienna, to correct a “historical error” and to eliminate the sheet of coca of his list of narcotics, in which it was included in 1961. “This is the coca sheet, this is not a cocaine”, he said Mulberry trees.
Bolivia
TLC with Japan
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Ecuador
Guerrilla falls down
A man suspicious of being one of the members of the biggest state of the FARC, known as Sixto Antonio Cabana Guillén, alias “Domingo Bioho“, was captured in the coastal Emeralds province and it remains stopped in this capital, he informed on Wednesday, the 11th the police.
Peru
Against the crisis
The president Alan García affirmed that Peru is prepared to confront the dashings of the world financial crisis due to a successful spectacular growth in 2008 as well as reservations and savings accumulated in the last years. Also, he asked the businessmen, investors and bankers, to have decision and adventurousness, and not to allow to frighten for the crisis.
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