Íngrid Betancourt

Betancourt was born in Bogotá, Colombia, South America. Her mother, Yolanda Pulecio, is a former Miss Colombia who later served in Congress[1] representing poor southern neighborhoods of Bogotá. Her father, Gabriel Betancourt, was minister for the General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla dictatorship (1953-1957), the assistant director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, then ambassador of Colombia to UNESCO in Paris,[5] and head of the education commission of the Alliance for Progress in Washington, D.C. under John F. Kennedy. The Betancourt family is one of Colombia's oldest aristocratic families, descended from French Norman immigrants who arrived from Grainville-la-Teinturière three centuries before.

After attending private school in France, a boarding school in England as well as the Liceo Francés in Bogotá,[5] Betancourt attended the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (commonly known as Sciences Po).[6]

After graduating, Betancourt married fellow student Fabrice Delloye in 1983,[7] and they had two children, Mélanie (born 1985) and Lorenzo (born 1988). Through this marriage she became a French citizen.[1] Her husband served in the French diplomatic corps, and the couple lived in multiple countries, including New Zealand and the Seychelles. During the 1980s, she briefly lived in Quito, Ecuador, where she worked as a fitness instructor.

In the mid 1990s, Betancourt and Delloye divorced, and she married Colombian advertising executive, Juan Carlos Lecompte in 1997. After her 2008 release, Lecompte said their marriage may be over. [8]

Her children Melanie and Lorenzo moved to New Zealand to live with their father due to death threats stemming from her political activities.[9] They were 16 and 13 when she was kidnapped in 2002.[10]

I don't know how France tends to use hyphenated identities --