| A much better interview with Ingrid Betancourt. Say what you want about the Guardian, it knows how to get to the point in an interview, unlike Larry King. |
But yesterday she admitted post-release euphoria was beginning to give way to exhaustion. "I know that it's like the roaring of the waves, I know it's coming and it's getting closer, I know that it's time for me to just stop. I don't want to be submerged by depression."
Betancourt, France's new Joan of Arc - and possibly Colombia's future president - was speaking in her first major newspaper interview since her release. Since landing in Paris to a rapturous reception last week, she has rushed between plush Paris hotels and parliament and senate buildings, all the time clutching the makeshift rosary that she made from string while chained up in jungle captivity. Her pallid skin and long, thin hair, and reported scars on her skin from chains are hard-to-erase signs of her six years in captivity. She will not cut her hair until all of the hundreds of hostages still held by the Farc rebels are free.