Clara Rojas is a lawyer and was the campaign director of Ingrid
Betancourt’s presidential campaign when they were kidnapped by the FARC
in 2002. She gave birth to her son Emmanuel during her captivity but he
was taken from her when he was only eight months old. After six years
of captivity she was finally liberated. Clara and her son currently
live in Bogotá, Colombia.
“My book will reveal the incredible harshness of my daily
existence: living in permanent darkness and humidity, washing in
ice-cold water, having scarcely anything to eat, dreaming of some kind
of vegetable…” Clara Rojas.
Clara’s experience was featured in the New York Times and was
one of the most heavily covered stories in Spanish-language media
worldwide. Any information that leaked out during her kidnapping was
broadly publicized and intensly followed by a deeply committed audience.
Rojas is a hero in every sense of the word. Placed in the worst
of situations she manages to reflect on the beauty of her country and
envision a better future. At time when our world is in turmoil, this
book is being released when it is truly needed.
Timely: Rojas provides an inside look at what a captive must
endure when held by terrorists. Rojas’ timely account brings depth and
emotion missing from current news sources covering this phenomenon.
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