Ingrid Betancourt is free!

[uffeviking]

Has anybody been following the tragic fate of this courageous lady? .

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4258343.ece

Let's try this link:

Sorry, the one I had didn't work either. Maybe any of you have better luck in getting the UTube link to work here.

[Lilas Pastia]

Of course! Big news and a great, unexpected happy end. Extraordinary courage and dignity. For some unfathomable reason she has decided to return to Colombia.

[scarpia]

Of course! Big news and a great, unexpected happy end. Extraordinary courage and dignity. For some unfathomable reason she has decided to return to Colombia.

Quite fathomable.  A US university recently released a study in which people from 97 countries were asked a simple question, are you happy?  This produced a happiness index.  Colombia scored 4.21, France scored 2.50.   For reference, the US scored 3.55 and the least happy country was Zimbabwe, at -1.92

[M forever]

AFAIK, akthough she frew up in France, she is originally from Colombia and had a political career going there when she was kidnapped, running for president or something like that. If she runs again, she will certainly win because of the emotional factor.

[scarpia]

AFAIK, akthough she frew up in France, she is originally from Colombia and had a political career going there when she was kidnapped, running for president or something like that. If she runs again, she will certainly win because of the emotional factor.

Hmmm, seems like McCain is running on a similar story.   

[M forever]

The happiness factor probably has something to do with the uplifting and carefree music style from Colombia known as "cumbia". A long time ago, I had a girlfriend who was from Ecuador and she listened to that all the time. As a result, she was a happy and carefree person. So I guess that's why they have such a high happiness factor there. Then again, why do they kidnap each other and stuff like that? That's pretty mean, I would say.