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Betancourt's husband says love may have died "in jungle"
Jul 9, 2008, 18:58 GMT
Bogota - The husband of Ingrid Betancourt, the woman freed after six years as a hostage of leftwing rebels, says the couple may separate after their long years apart.
Juan Carlos Lecompte told the daily newspaper 'El Tiempo' on Wednesday that he could not exclude 'that things are over with Ingrid.'
'This happens. I am not just now thinking about this, but it's been on my mind for some time. Our love may have died in the jungle,' he was quoted as saying.
In the week since her spectacular liberation from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC,) the Colombian press has dwelled on the restrained greeting Betancourt gave her husband when she arrived in military fatigues at an airport fresh out of her jungle prison.
'I am very happy about her liberation, but I must admit that I had expected something else. I had hoped for a warm embrace, not even a kiss since all the world was watching,' Lecompte said. 'But there was no such embrace, and I stepped aside.'
Lecompte has fought through the long six and a half years for her release, carried out by a theatrical ruse by the Colombian military.
When Betancourt flew away to Paris the day after her rescue with her grown children who live in France, Lecompte was not along. But he denied that he had been asked to leave the plane.
'Who knows what she heard about me in the jungle, or what people were telling her, for example, about an alleged relationship I was supposed to have had with a Mexican woman,' Lecompte said.
'Our love may have died in the jungle. What can I do about that?' he asked.
He said he wanted to give her time to get her life in order.
'I waited for six and a half years for her,' he said.
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Of course, let's tell all the world about your private feelings!
I am sobbing uncontrollably.
I watched her being interviewed by Larry King last night...she did say *things* happened in the jungle and' what happened in the jungle, stays in the jungle'.
At least she's smart enough not to tell every little detail for all the world to analyze.
I don't feel for someone who goes and talk to the media about his private life. Surely Ingrid knows what she is doing. This man seems unclassy, and low spirited.
My hunch is the same as zuuka's concerning rape. While I agree with Jen and Sarindra about this man being indiscreet about his feelings, I do think the comments are rather harsh and biased considering he had been waiting for her for over six years. I guess the man's feelings are not very important that no one would consider putting themselves in his shoes. Afterall, he wasn't suffering in the jungle, and merely waiting in comfort outside.
I dunno, it all sounds like the same old unreasoning and tired male-bashing to me.
But her daughter; I would bang her uncontrollably until she would shiffer in ecstacy. OVER AND OVER AGAIN in Paris in the Eifel tower.
Well, if he waited for such a long time for her and she is cold and wants to break up, she doesn't deserve any respect...
the truth is that ingrid had a relationship in the jungle with another captive, slept in the same bed every nite, she is not nice at all ,everybody who were in the jungle with her talk bad about her., she is just theatre
I've seen a 3 minute video taken in the jungle, where Ingrid is raped and fondled savagely by her captors. The video was taken by one of the FARC militia man and I ve no idea how it was made public.
I believe Mrs Betancourt will be sacrred for life about the multiple rape events she was subject during her captivity.
In order to preserve Ingrid's privacy (or whatever is left of it) I opted to delete the video from my archives ... God bless Ingrid Betancourt ...
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zuukaJul 10th, 2008 - 16:15:26
She was probably raped (more than once). If that is the case it will be definatley hard for her to be intimate with her husband. He must be patient if he wants things to work. Then again, maybe he cheated on her during her captivity. If that is the case, I'm sure her sense of betrayal is profound. Who knows......
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