Yolanda Pulecio.
_ has rested heavily on promises that no US troops would be put at risk and drawn into a jungle war with rebels, said George Withers, senior fellow with the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights advocacy organization. Betancourt, wearing a floppy jungle hat, the kind of flimsy rubber boots worn by guerrillas, and a white flower in her braided hair, stepped off a plane and into the waiting arms of her mother, Yolanda Pulecio. said two of the three were suffering from the jungle malady leishmaniasis and quot;looking forward to modern medical treatment.quot; George Gonsalves was mowing his yard when an excited neighbor relayed the news he had seen on television.