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