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
Howard M. Brier in book form. As a journalism professor and consultant, Brier had definite views on what makes good writing: Brier married Grace Kjelstad in 1930. The couple had two children, Nancy and Warren, both deceased. Howard continued to live in Seattle after Grace died in 1965, before he died at 66 in October 1969. A notable relative was brother Royce Brier, a longtime columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Books— Magazine articles— Howard M. Brier Howard Maxwell Brier (born 20 March 1903, in River Falls, Wisconsin; d. Oct. 1969, Seattle, Washington) was an American fiction author who wrote primarily adventure and