The ballot will take place on May 29 and June 19, in order to elect four years the successor of Iván Duque.
Le Monde with AP
She wants to finish what she could not finish twenty years ago. Ingrid Betancourt, which was selected in hostage for six years, four months and nine days by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced on Tuesday, January 18, to Bogota, which it presents itself in the presidential election in Colombia For centrist training Coalition Centro Esperanza.
“Today, I’m here to finish what I started with many of you in 2002,” said M Betancourt, at from a press conference broadcast on the Internet . “I am here to claim the rights of 51 million Colombians deprived of justice because we live in a system designed to reward criminals.”
The ballot will take place on May 29 and June 19. It will be intended for four years the President of the Republic who will succeed in Iván Duque, which is not eligible for a second term, the Colombian Constitution granting a single mandate to the Head of State.
This announcement intervenes nearly two decades after the removal of M me betancourt by the FARC, while it was also campaigning to access the presidency of the country, at the head of the ecologist party Oxígeno Verde, a movement she had founded when she was a member of the congress.
His captivity had ended in 2008, thanks to a military operation, during which Colombian soldiers disguised in aid workers had released M me betancourt and several other Hostages des FARC without drawing a single ball. After his release, Ingrid Betancourt had withdrew from the public life, passing most of his time with his family, in France.
FARC sentenced to compensate the Bettencourt family
Thursday, January 13, the American justice sentenced the former Colombian rebellion of FARC to pay $ 36 million for compensation for the removal of Ingrid Betancourt. The son of the latter, Lorenzo, also called Lawrence, owns the American nationality; He had therefore been able to file a complaint in the United States, civil, in June 2018, against 14 former Legal Armed Forces in Colombia, under a Federal Anti-Terrorism Act (Antiterrorism Act, ATA), criticizing the rebellion. violation “of this extraterritorial legislation.
The former Franco-Colombian senator had claimed for years compensation covering the psychological damage caused by his long captivity.
The historical peace agreement signed in 2016 between Colombia and FARC transformed the guerrilla to legal political party and significantly reduces violence, even though many armed groups continue to crack down in the country, including dissidents of FARC having resumed arms.
Last November, the US State Department had withdrawn the FARC from its blacklist of foreign terrorist organizations, but without changing position on the legal proceedings launched against former responsible for ex-guerrilla Colombian.