Leszli kalli biography

PERSONAL:

Born 1980, in Colombia.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Canada.

CAREER:

Writer.

WRITINGS:

Secuestrada: Diario de una joven secuestrada por la guerrilla Colombiana, Espasa (Madrid, Spain), 2001, translation by Kristina Cordero published as Kidnapped: A Diary of My 373 Days in Captivity, Atria Books (New York, NY), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

In April of 1999, eighteen-year-old Leszli Kalli set out by plane for Israel, accompanied by her father.

Leszli kalli biography

Not long after takeoff, the plane was hijacked by members of the National Liberation Army, a Colombian guerrilla group also known as the ELN. For the next 373 days, Kalli and her father were held captive along with fourteen other passengers at an ELN camp deep in the jungle.

Over a year would go by before the Colombian government would be able to negotiate with the ELN for the hostages' release. In an interview with Latina.com, Kalli commented about what the experience taught her: "I learned to value everything.

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