Today's release of Ingrid Betancourt's book, 'Even Silence has an End,' about her six years in captivity in a guerrilla camp, was marked by calls to boycott her memoir."
After picking up (but not yet reading) Letters to My Mother--letters exchanged by Betancourt and her children, impressively prefaced by Elie Wiesel--a while back, I Wiki'ed her story, in order to gain some purchase on at least the broad strokes of her captivity and aftermath. I have no real opinion on the controversies this book has aroused, nor the woman more generally, but based on what I have heard, I find the story fascinating. Unsurprisingly, so did Colombia--especially since the account, according to one bookseller, “is exceptionally well written and by far the best of all the books by former hostages."
Aesthetic value wins the day again.
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