Meet Ingrid Betancourt
Discussing and signing Even Silence Has An End (Penguin Press, $29.95) 
Saturday, October 30, 7:30pm
Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
Chapman Conference Center
300 N.E. 2nd Avenue, Downtown Miami
Building 3, Second Floor
Born December 25, 1961, in Bogotá, Colombia, Ingrid Betancourt was a politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat widespread corruption. In 2002 she was taken hostage by the FARC, a brutal terrorist guerrilla organization. For more than six and a half years, the FARC held her hostage in the Colombian jungle. She was rescued on July 2, 2008.