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
Winifred M. A. Brooke Smithsonian Institution. She died in Alton, Hampshire on 4 November 1975. The Royal Geographical Society holds Brooke's notes on Switzerland and her guidebooks. The genus and some of the species named in honour of Brooke are: As Author: As Illustrator: Winifred M. A. Brooke Winifred Mary Adelaide Brooke (16 February 1893 – 4 November 1975) was a British botanist, illustrator and author who made scientifically significant collections of botany specimens, including in the Bolivian Andes. The plant genus "Misbrookea" was named in her honour by Vicki Funk. Brooke was born on 16 February 1893 in Stroud Green, London, England. She