The NZ connection

As France and Colombia celebrate the release of Ingrid Betancourt, a reader points out to me the NZ connection as detailed in Wikipedia:

After graduating, she married fellow student Fabrice Delloye in 1983, and they had two children, Mélanie (born 1985) and Lorenzo (born 1988). Through this marriage she became a French citizen. Her husband served in the French diplomatic corps, and the couple lived in multiple countries, including New Zealand and the Seychelles. During the 1980s, she briefly lived in Quito, Ecuador, where she worked as an aerobics instructor.

In the mid 1990s, Betancourt and Delloye divorced, and she married Colombian advertising executive, Juan Carlos Lecompte in 1997.

Her children Melanie and Lorenzo moved to New Zealand to live with their father due to death threats stemming from her political activities. They were 16 and 13 when she was kidnapped in 2002.

I don’t think I have seen that NZ connection mentioned in the traditional media, which is surprising as normally any connection to New Zealand – no matter how tenuous – is seized upon.