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☆ Father of Colombian children who survived plane crash accused of abuse
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BOGOTA, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Colombian prosecutors announced sexual abuse charges on Saturday against the father of two of the four Indigenous children who survived a May plane crash in the South American country's Amazon region. The children went missing after the small plane they were traveling in went down, killing their mother and two other adults. Ranoque, who was arrested on Friday, stands accused of abusing his step daughter since she was 10 years old, according to the statement. The children, aged 1 through 13, were hospitalized for over a month after they were rescued in June. Since then, have been in the care of Colombia's family welfare institute, where prosecutors claim the alleged abuse was first suspected.

Persons: Manuel Ranoque, Julia Symmes Cobb, David Alire Garcia, Raju Gopalakrishnan Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: BOGOTA

☆ Missing children found after 40 days in Amazon released from hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Stefano Pozzebon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Four young children found last month after surviving 40 days in the Amazon rainforest following an air crash have been released from hospital and are in good shape, according to Colombian authorities. The four children, ages between 1 and 13, have been receiving treatment at Colombia’s Military Hospitalin Bogota since they were found on June 9. They were released from the medical facility on Friday and are now staying at a shelter home, according to Astrid Garces, director of Colombian Children Welfare Agency ICBF, at a press briefing Friday. The children are staying at one of the 188 shelters the agency runs across Colombia. Traces pointing to their survival sparked a massive military-led search involving more than hundred Colombian special forces troops and 70 indigenous scouts combing the area.

Persons: Astrid Garces, ” Garces, ”, Jacobombaire, Tien Ranoque Mucutuy, Cristin Ranoque, Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia, Gustavo Petro, farina, Manuel Ranoque Organizations: CNN, Colombia’s Military Hospitalin, Colombian Children Welfare Agency, Colombian Locations: Colombia’s Military Hospitalin Bogota, Colombia, Colombian

CNN —When four young indigenous children were found last week after 40 days in the Colombian Amazon jungle, their rescuers noticed that the oldest, 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, had something hidden between her teeth. Muñoz told CNN the seeds were from a native Amazon palm tree called Oenocarpus Bataua, colloquially known as “milpesos” in Colombia. The accomplishment feels like a moment of pride for the indigenous community of the Colombian Amazon. One of the traditional tasks of indigenous women is to look after one’s siblings as if they were your own children. Traditional elders like Guerrero attempted to bridge a spiritual link with the children using traditional plants like tobacco, coca, and yagé, the sacred, hallucinogen plant also known as ayahuasca.

Persons: ”, Eliecer Muñoz, Muñoz, Eliecer Munoz, Daniel Munoz, ” Muñoz, “, –, Henry Guerrero, Lesly, Fidencio Valencia, milpesos, ” Guerrero, Ranoque Mucutuy, Nelly Kuiru, Kuiru, Manuel Ranoque, San Jose del Guaviare, Guerrero, Magdalena Mucutuy, Leslie, There’s, ” Kuiru, Ranoque, Magdalena Organizations: CNN, AFP, Getty, Army, Cessna, Colombian Military Forces, Reuters, Colombian Amazon, Colombian, Blackhawk, Colombian Amazon Institute of Scientific Research Locations: Colombian, ”, Colombia, Bogota, Caqueta, La, San Jose, Araracuara, Amazonas

☆ Opinion: How a 13-year-old saved her 3 siblings in a snake-infested jungle
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Opinion Frida Ghitis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

She is a weekly opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a columnist for World Politics Review. One of the heroes of the mission was Wilson, the search dog, who has gone missing in the jungle. The children say they spent several days with Wilson, and their drawings of their time in the jungle show him. Jacobombaire Mucutuy had guided her siblings toward water. Ranoque said his children survived because Jacobombaire Mucutuy knew what to do.

Persons: Frida Ghitis, Mucutuy, Donald Trump, I’m, Jacobombaire Mucutuy, –, Cristin, Tien Ranoque, Rescuers, Manuel Ranoque, Wilson, Ranoque, ” Organizations: CNN, Washington Post, Politics, Marxist, Wilson, Twitter, Facebook Locations: Guaviare, Ukraine, United States, Colombian, Bogotá, Colombia

☆ Colombian Children Rescued in Jungle Had Been Fleeing for Their Lives
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Julie Turkewitz | Genevieve Glatsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The four children who survived an almost unfathomable 40 days in the Colombian jungle after their tiny plane crashed in the Amazon rainforest had boarded the plane because they were fleeing for their lives. Manuel Ranoque, the father of the two youngest survivors, explained in an interview that an armed group that forcibly recruited children by threatening violence had seized control of their home region in southern Colombia. Fearing their family was next, he said, relatives had tried to fly the children out of the territory, to a city where they could live safely. Then the children's escape plane crashed, killing their mother and two other adults and sending the quartet on a traumatic weekslong survival journey in the Amazon jungle. The oldest of the children, Lesly, 13, played the role of guide and mother to her siblings, helping them navigate the forest.

Persons: Manuel Ranoque Locations: Colombian, Colombia

☆ Amazon plane crash: Oldest sister praised for 'heroic role' in Colombian jungle, grandfather says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Stefano Pozzebon Ruba Alhenawi Maria Plaza Heather Chen | Stefano Pozzebon | Ruba Alhenawi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

In clips shared online by the Colombian Defense Ministry, the children’s grandfather Narciso Mucutuy detailed how 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy cared for her younger siblings during the traumatic ordeal. “When she looked and saw that her mother was dead, she saw the foot of her youngest sister and she pulled them out,” he said. “Their learning from indigenous families and their learning of living in the jungle has saved them,” Colombian President Gustavo Petro said. ‘We have a saying ‘We never leave an element behind,’ even less the four children, we would not leave Wilson. “I believe in the jungle, which is our mother … both the jungle and nature have never betrayed me,” he said.

Persons: Wilson, Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia, Narciso Mucutuy, Mucutuy, “, ”, Cristin, Soleiny Jacobombaire, Tien Ranoque Mucutuy, farina, Gustavo Petro, Lesly, Belgian Shepherd, Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez, ‘, Manuel Ranoque, … Organizations: CNN, Colombian Defense Ministry, Forces, Colombian Locations: Belgian, Colombian, Bogota

☆ Children who survived five weeks in Colombia jungle will tell own story, father says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Presidency/Handout via REUTERSBOGOTA, June 11 (Reuters) - Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia's southern jungle will tell their own story about the ordeal, the father of the two youngest siblings said on Sunday. "They will tell their stories and you will hear them," said Manuel Ranoque, the father of the 1-year-old and 5-year-old siblings, after visiting them at Bogota's military hospital. "It's not easy to ask them because the children went 40 days without eating well, so I have not been able to get information from the oldest child," Ranoque told reporters. Ranoque also told reporters the children's mother had survived for four days after the crash, an account disputed by another family member who also spoke to journalists. Reporting by Herbert Villarraga and Liamar Ramos; Writing by Carolina Pulice; Editing by Diane CraftOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: San Jose del Guaviare, Manuel Ranoque, Ranoque, Herbert Villarraga, Liamar Ramos, Carolina Pulice, Diane Craft Organizations: Colombian, Cessna, REUTERS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Caqueta, REUTERS BOGOTA, Caqueta province, Araracuara, San Jose, Guaviare

☆ Child plane crash survivors in "acceptable" state of health
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

BOGOTA, June 10 (Reuters) - Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia's southern jungle, after surviving a plane crash which killed their mother, are in an "acceptable" state of health, the government said on Saturday. "In general the boy and the girls are in an acceptable state. The youngest of the children turned one while in the jungle, while her brother had his fifth birthday, he said. Clues as to the siblings' whereabouts have been reported for weeks as the search, dubbed Operation Hope, continued. Three adults, including the pilot and the children's mother, died in the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane.

Persons: Gustavo Petro, Petro, Ivan Velasquez, Fidencio Valencia, Velasquez, General Carlos Rincon, Hope, Wilson, gaunt, Manuel Ranoque, San Jose del Guaviare, Carolina Pulice, Luis Jaime Acosta, Nelson Bocanegra, Oliver Griffin, Jamie Freed, Andrea Ricci Organizations: Twitter, Cessna, Thomson Locations: BOGOTA, Caqueta province, Bogota, Araracuara, Caqueta, San Jose, Guaviare

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