In 2002, while campaigning as a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, Betancourt was abducted by the FARC and held captive in the Colombian jungle for six and a half years before being freed in a dramatic 2008 rescue. Betancourt discussed her story as told in her memoir, Even Silence Has an End. Betancourt appeared in conversation with Jeanne Carstensen, managing editor of The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit news organization in San Francisco.

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To learn more about Ingrid Betancourt's political career, kidnapping and rescue, read this 2008 story from the museum's Women, Power and Politics exhibition, Kidnapping a Candidate: Ingrid Betancourt's Six-Year Ordeal.