Madonna, a president and ex-hostage meet

Singer held private meeting in palace where she filmed ‘Evita’ scene

	Singer Madonna shakes hands with Colombia's Ingrid Betancourt as Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, center, looks on during a meeting at the government house in Buenos Aires. Betancourt was a hostage of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, for more than six years.
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updated 10:05 p.m. ET Dec. 2, 2008

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Madonna met with a president and a former guerrilla-held hostage Tuesday at Argentina's presidential palace, where she filmed "Evita" 12 years ago.

The pop star, in Buenos Aires on the Latin America leg of her "Sticky & Sweet" world tour, showed up early for a visit Argentine President Cristina Fernandez — who was then meeting with one of the world's best-known ex-hostages.

Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt was freed in July after being held more than six years in jungle camps by leftist rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. She was visiting Argentina to thank its government for working to free hundreds of other hostages left behind.

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Fernandez brought Madonna and Betancourt together for a brief meeting that was closed to the press.

The trip marks Madonna's third visit to Buenos Aires, where in 1996 she played Eva Peron, the first lady of Argentina from 1946-52, in the musiscal film "Evita."

Then-President Carlos Menem permitted her to film one of the movie's most famous scenes on the balcony of the palace, where she sang "Don't Cry for Me Argentina."

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