"CAPTIVE IS ONE WOMAN'S REMARKABLE AND COMPELLING TALE OF COURAGE, FAITH, AND PERSEVERANCE. IT IS A HARROWING ACCOUNT OF WHAT THE HUMAN SPIRIT CAN ENDURE IN THE FACE OF CHAINS, SILENCE, AND THE HORRIFIC CONDITIONS INSIDE THE IMPENETRABLE COLOMBIAN JUNGLE, BUT IT IS ALSO A STORY OF HOPE, NEW BEGINNINGS, AND FREEDOM."ùTERESA RODRIGUEZ, author of The Daughters of Jußrez, Emmy Award-winning journalist, and coanchor of Aqui y Ahora, Univision<BR><BR>"THE STORY OF CLARA'S STRENGTH AND LOVE IN THE FACE OF HORRENDOUS CIRCUMSTANCES IS AN INSPIRATION TO ALL."ùMARIA CELESTE ARRARAS, author of Make Your Life Prime Time<BR><BR>On a fateful day in February 2002, campaign manager Clara Rojas accompanied longtime friend and presidential hopeful Ingrid Betancourt into an area controlled by the powerful leftist guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Armed with machine guns and grenades, the FARC took them hostage and kept them in the jungle for the next six years.<BR><BR>After more than two years of captivity deep in the Colombian jungle, surrounded by jaguars, snakes, and tarantulas, miles from any town or hospital, Clara Rojas prepared to give birth in a muddy tent surrounded by heavily armed guerrillas. Her captors promised that a doctor would be brought to the camp to help her. But when Rojas went into labor and began to suffer complications, the only person on hand was a guerrilla wielding a kitchen knife. The guerrillas drugged Rojas with anesthetic while one of them slit open her abdomen. Her son, Emmanuel, was born by amateur cesarean section in April 2004. His survival was miraculous, but her joy was soon cut short when the FARC took him from her when he was only eight months old. For the next three years, Clara was given no information about him, but her desire to one day see him again kept her alive. In early 2008, Clara was finally liberated and reunited with her sonùto whom this book is dedicated.