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Ingrid Betancourt, author of 'Even Silence Has an End'

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Ingrid Betancourt's harrowing memoir "Even Silence Has an End" recounts the six years she spent held prisoner by FARC guerrillas in the Colombian jungle. She talks to Melissa Bell about the difficulty of committing her memories to paper.

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