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
17th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment of disease, for a total of 194 fatalities. 17th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 17th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 17th Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa, and mustered in for three years of Federal service on April 16, 1862. The regiment was mustered out on July 25, 1865. The 17th Iowa mustered 958 men at the time it left Iowa for active campaigning. It suffered 5 officers and 66 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and