Ingrid Betancourt update

A senior commander of the FARC has confirmed that many of the hostages in their power are still alive. He also said the hostages were depressed that there had been no progress on their liberation, and that some were suffering from diseases contracted in the country's jungles. The last confirmed proof that she was alive in 2003.

Her husband dropped thousands of photographs of her children from a light plane over mountains and jungles last Friday (5/13) in the hope she would see them.