Gabriel Betancourt commission of the Alliance for Progress in Washington, D.C. under John F. Kennedy. Gabriel Betancourt was the father of the politician and former FARC hostage Íngrid Betancourt. Gabriel Betancourt divorced his wife Yolanda Pulecio in 1980 and was granted custody of his daughters. Gabriel Betancourt died of heart and respiratory trouble a month after Íngrid's kidnapping, without seeing his daughter again. Gabriel Betancourt Gabriel Betancourt Mejía (born April 27, 1918 in Medellín – died March 23, 2002 in Bogotá) was a Colombian economist and diplomat who served as Colombia's Minister of National Education in two occasions, and Permanent Delegate to
Gabriel Mendy see. Gabriel Mendy Gabriel Mendy (born 9 April 1967) is a Gambian Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Spiritans who is the current Bishop of Banjul in the Gambia since his appointment on 30 November 2017. He is the first Gambian national to be appointed to the diocese and the first Gambian to be made a bishop. Gabriel Mendy was born on 9 April 1967 in Lamin in the Gambia. He has four brothers and two sisters who all live in Banjul. He completed his studies in 1985 at the Saint Peter's Technical and Senior School in Lamin