I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know. . . I realized being in … - Ingrid Betancourt

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Ingrid Betancourt

I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know. . . I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do, I mean changing the way politics were being done in Colombia, was not possible the way I wanted to do it - by confronting, by denouncing.

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Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

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