Colombian who spent six years as a Farc captive to run for presidency

Ingrid Betancourt will enter a crowded field as a candidate for the Green Oxygen party in May's election

Ingrid Betancourt, the Colombian politician who was held as a hostage for six years by Colombia's largest guerrilla group before a dramatic rescue, has announced that she will be running for her country's presidency.

The news comes almost two decades after Betancourt was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia while also campaigning for the country's top office for the Green Oxygen party, a movement she founded while she was a congresswoman.