Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt announced she will withdraw from the
public eye for at least half a year in 2009 after receiving the Woman of the
Year award.
“My retirement from the public life is selfish, but I have to do it. I think I will be isolated for at least six months,” she said in the Austrian capital Vienna.
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