Ingrid Betancourt was kissed by her daughter, Melanie Delloye, as her son, Lorenzo, looked on at the airport in Bogota, Colombia on Wednesday.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Hours after Colombian commandos in disguise infiltrated the FARC terrorist group in a daring rescue operation, three American hostages were flown to safety in the United States and Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician held for six years, was reunited with her family.
Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt was kissed by her mother, Yolanda Pulecio, upon arrival at a military base in Bogota, Colombia, on Wednesday after being rescued from six years of captivity.
The three Americans boarded a military plane in Colombia and arrived on American soil late Wednesday night at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, where they were undergoing medical examinations and meeting with family on Thursday morning. The men — Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes, and Keith Stansell — were taking part in a counternarcotics mission for the Pentagon in 2003 when their plane went down in the eastern jungles of Colombia, a dangerous region controlled by the FARC terrorist group.
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