KAREN CRUZ
EMGLISH CLASS PER 2
10-7-09
Violence Essay

I think there is violence every where. Just a simple push or yelling at someone is violence. I see it everyday and ever where at school. All the time you’re going to see student in West Adams yelling and pushing each other around. I just think it’s part of life. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but I’m just saying that I bet that everyone has done that once in their life with out thinking about it.
The worst violence I have herd in my life was when I was listening to the news not so long ago. In Colombia they have been having a war going on the forests for years. The group of people is called “ Las Farks” They’re the people that live in the forests and kidnap people for many years, but just not any kind people. They would kidnap mostly the people that are in politics and of course they would do terrible things to them. The things that they would do is call their family and ask for money.
“ Las Farks” live in terrible condition, but they don’t care. They don’t have clean water or machine that we have in our homes. They basically live like wild animals in hut build by them think as if was a Tarzan movie.
One of the people that “ Las Farks” kepted hostage and was known very famous in Latin America and the United States of America was Ingrid Ventacur. She was one of the candidates to be elected for president of Colombia. She had many plans to change Colombia. One of the things she wanted to do was to capture the organization of “ Las Farks.” For the Farks it was a huge threat.
She was hostage for six years. The saddest thing was her family was devastated when they found out. She was married and dreamed to have a child, but she didn’t have the chance to have it with her husband..
When she was a prisoner by the Farks there were many rumor about her having a romance with one of the man that has her captive. Three years had past and after all those rumor it turn out to be true because she was pregnant. Her baby was born in the forests with no doctor. The same people that had her hostage helped her have her baby.
During that time she was not the only person hostage. There were many other too! The “Farks” would video tape them and show how in terribly condition they were in. The captor would video tape each other and asked what they wanted. No body knew who they were. They would put on face protector or masks so no know could recognized them. When the people that worked in the government got the video tape or watched it on the internet and didn’t pay attention or wouldn’t do what they were asked for the kidnappers would send body parts or the people that were hostage.
The way that Ingrid Ventacur became free was when they paid for her rescue. She was lucky that they didn’t cut her into pieces. To rescue her they send her a Colombian army helicopter, but the Farks that were surrounding the forests was not sure who they were. They thought that the Colombian army wanted to fight with them. Luckily no one was hurt. They took Ingrid safely out of the forests.
When she came to the city and she put her first step on the ground all the paparazzi were waiting for her and they were asking many question. Her family was also waiting for her and even the president was there to watching her coming. Everyone hugged her and welcomed her back. She gave her speech of freedom and she began to cry.
Now about two years had past ever since that happen. She divorce her husband and she living with her son and family, but no one knows what happen to the man in forests that got her pregnant. Everyone rumor that her husband divorce her because Ingrid got pregnant from another man.
Ingrid is thinking right now to write a book about her life and all her experiences and I don’t think she wants to become a president after what happen. She afraid what could happen to her life. The only problem now is the Farks also known as the Guerria still the organization that non stop terrorizing the people of Colombia.