On Al Punto with Jorge Ramos this morning on Univision, there was an interview with former FARC hostage and one time Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. Five months after her release, Betancourt said the FARC was struggling to survive in Colombia and that there have been orders to recapture her, which is why she lives in Paris, France, where she is also a citizen.

Betancourt also clarified any doubts about her running for president in Colombia in 2010. She said that she has seen such ugliness in Colombia since she last ran for president, that she has no interest in running the country.

On other Latin American presidents, specifically Hugo Chavez, she said that she doesn’t believe that Chavez has been helping the FARC with arms or money but that he has supported them politically and morally. She praised Chavez for calling on the FARC to transform into a political party and that taking that position is telling. Betancourt also said that she didn’t think that Chavez’s attempt to stay in power as president By changing the constitution was different then what other presidents in Latin America and worldwide have attempted to do and said that as long as the people are able to vote in transparent elections that she didn’t see a problem.

Betancourt expressed that she felt the U.S. President Elect Obama didn’t know much about Latin America and that it was the job of Latin America to make Obama fall in love with the region so that it would be put on the top of his agenda.

Via / Univision TV