No se si ingrid leera este mensaje, estoy tratrando de conseguir un sitio donde pueda escribirle, me alegra muchisimo que este libre ingrid y que este en su casa con sus seres queridos, tambien espero que se pueda recuperar de todos los problemas psicologicos que esto pudo traer en su vida. acabo de leer en las noticias que le dieron otro premio el principe de las asturias, me alegra, de corazon por que yo tambien soy colombiana y es muy lindo cuando hablan bien de colombia, y no se porque se lo dieron de verdad, que pena decirle pero desde que usted salio ha hecho mucha publicidad, ido a roma, con el papa, con todos estos presidentes, y la verdad no se para que... todavia me pregunto QUE ESTA HACIENDO INGRID POR LOS SECUESTRADOS EN COLOMBIA??? entiendo que se haya ido de Colombia para Francia, y si se hubiera quedado callada tambien lo hubiera entendido, pero usted se gana premios, porque estubo 6 anos secuestrada, y donde estan los soldados que estuvieron 10 anos secuestrados?? porque usted tiene mas dinero que ellos, le dan premios, ellos estaban defendiendo nuestro pais cuando los secuestraron. Usted se les entrego!!!!! no dido que se merecia que la secuestraran, pero usted se lo busco, le dijeron que no fuera y se fue. pero ellos estaban trabajando por la paz de colombia cuando les quitaron la libertad y los dejaron 10 anos en la selva, y todavia estan en colombia, luchando por ella, usted???? EN FRANCIA, ITALIA, USA, hablando y hablando y ganandose premios, pero no se ve nada que haya empezado a hacer por los secuestrados. URIBE la rescato, y confiamos en que el siga rescatando y saque a colombia aun mas adelante porque este presidente es el unico que ha empezado a cambiar a colombia. Ojala que gane la otra reeleccion, y que usted en vez de hablar y ganarse premios que no se merece, deberia estar luchando por los secuestrados, y no dedicarles los premios queusted se gana, porque para ellos eso no significa nada, libertad significa todo
‘I Want to Forgive’
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Her fellow hostages:
I learned a lot from them. That there is magic; there is a dark side of man, but you can also plug yourself into the light, and you can become an enormous light for others.
Three American hostages who were saved along with her:
It was very difficult for them. They arrived, and only one of them could speak the [Spanish] language. They had gone through very hard conditions. They were put in the same group as us, in the same camp. I think they [eventually] found a way of sharing with others what they [originally] thought was happening only to them. The sharing is important. The sharing of despair, counting the days.
I remember when they arrived, they had only been abducted for a few months, and they might have thought: "There are people in this group who have been hostages for five years!" By the end, some of us had been there for 10 years, others for seven years, and they [the Americans] had been there for five years, and we understood that we had our pain in common. We had all gone through a horrible experience. And I think we could understand that—after all those years—and come to an understanding, and have a caring attitude toward each other.
On whether there were signs of American involvement in the dramatic rescue:
I think that the operation was 100 percent Colombian. I think that in some way, the Americans had been informed that the operation was going to be done and that some kind of useful technical tools were shared with the Colombians.
Survival tactics as a hostage in the jungle:
The important thing was to fill the day with activities that could be repeated in a schedule, to give you stability in a world with no stability.
I shouldn't talk about my faith because it is very intimate, and I don't have the ability to evangelize. But the thing I can give is testimony, of the importance of a spiritual connection with God. I don't know whatever you call God, [but it] is what makes us human beings and not animals.
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