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☆ In the Kitchen With the Line Cook From ‘The Bear’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Kathleen Squires | Photographs Laura Murray For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The kitchen tools I can’t live without are: my big, heavy aluminum ollas, the old-school kind my abuela had. If I make rice in other things I’m filled with terror. I’ve shipped them to different places where I was working. My favorite gadget right now is the French press. I call it the “Fresh Prince.” When I have a real day ahead of me, my girl gets filled up with Colombian coffee beans.

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☆ Ukrainian Writer Victoria Amelina Dies After Kramatorsk Strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Cassandra Vinograd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, Ukraine — Victoria Amelina, one of Ukraine’s best known young writers, has died from injuries sustained in a Russian missile strike on a crowded restaurant in eastern Ukraine. Her death brought to 13 the number of civilians killed in the attack on the Ria Lounge restaurant in the city of Kramatorsk on June 27. Ms. Amelina was dining with a Colombian delegation when the missile ripped into the restaurant. “Doctors and paramedics in Kramatorsk and Dnipro did everything they could to save her life,” the writers’ group PEN Ukraine said in a statement late Sunday. Days before the attack, Ms. Amelina had attended the Kyiv Book Arsenal, a large literary festival in Ukraine’s capital.

Persons: Victoria Amelina, Amelina Organizations: Victoria, Ria, Colombian, PEN, Arsenal Locations: KYIV, Ukraine, Russian, Kramatorsk, Dnipro, PEN Ukraine, Kyiv

☆ A Russian missile strike killed a Ukrainian author who began documenting Russia's war crimes after the invasion
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Victoria Amelina died July 1 following a Russian missile strike in the city of Kramatorsk. Amelina wrote two novels throughout her life and began writing poetry soon after the Russian war in Ukraine began. "But I document Russia's war crimes and listen to the sound of shelling, not poems." She received a grant in 2022 from Documenting Ukraine — a research project dedicated to documenting personal stories during the Russian war in Ukraine, according to their website — to complete the project. The work records the stories of female civil society leaders amid the war, according to Documenting Ukraine.

Persons: Victoria Amelina, Amelina, —, Amelina —, Sergio Jaramillo, Colombia's, " Jaramillo, Volodymyr Vakulenko — Organizations: Service, BBC, Financial Times, Twitter, Victoria, Irish Times, Kharkiv Literary Locations: Russian, Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Ukrainian

☆ Global markets in H1: Banks vs the machines
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Marc Jones | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Linking it all has been the relentless rise in interest rates, which was exactly what battered markets in 2022. But just that this time has been different due to an unshakeable view that the end of the cycle is near. A 12%, or $6 trillion, rally in value of world stocks (.MIWD00000PUS), (.FTAWORLDSR) although it has been ominously top heavy. Thanks largely to ChatGPT, the AI boom has seen the 'Big Tech' giants enjoy a combined surge of 70%. There have also been around a total of 90 interest rate hikes this year by central banks globally versus just 17 cuts.

Persons: Andrew Kelly, Lehman, Trevor Greetham, Gold, Viktor Szabo, Tayyip Erdogan's, haven't, bitcoin, Binance, Milla Savova, Dhara Ranasinghe, Tom Wilson, Rashmi Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, REUTERS, Nikkei, LONDON, Big Tech, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Meta, Nvidia, Royal London Asset Management, Japan's Nikkei, U.S . Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan's, Silicon Valley Bank, behemoth, UBS, Treasury, Wall, BlackRock, Commodities, Thomson Locations: New York City, U.S, El Salvador, Sri, Zambia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Argentina, Japan, Egypt, Nigeria, London

☆ Soccer’s Next Big Thing Is Buying in Bulk
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Wednesday evening, the Colombian club Atlético Huila decided to treat its players and its coaching staff to what could be best thought of as an office night out. It finished at the bottom of the Apertura, the first half of the Colombian campaign. The host duly offered Huila an invitation to watch its Copa Libertadores game against Argentinos Juniors at its compact, modern stadium. What Huila’s players saw was, first and foremost, rousing entertainment. Thanks to a last-ditch goal from Kevin Rodríguez, Independiente won, 3-2, securing the top spot in its group in the process.

Persons: Atlético Huila, Huila, Kevin Rodríguez Organizations: Colombian, Independiente del Valle, Copa Libertadores, Argentinos Juniors, Independiente, Estadio Banco Guayaquil Locations: Sangolqui, Ecuador’s, Quito

☆ Tour de France 2023: Rider safety in the spotlight after death of Gino Mäder
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

In June, Swiss rider Gino Mäder died aged 26 following a crash on the fifth stage of the Tour de Suisse. Gino Mäder competes in the fourth stage of the 2023 Tour de Suisse. “I think especially for everyone who was at the race [Tour de Suisse], that was pretty hard hitting,” the British rider told reporters on Wednesday. A pedestrian walks past a giant yellow jersey ahead of the 110th edition of the Tour de France in Bilbao. Goyvaerts/AFP/BELGA/Getty ImagesElsewhere, 2019 Tour de France champion Egan Bernal is competing in his first Grand Tour event since suffering serious injuries in a crash last year.

Persons: CNN —, Gino Mäder, Mäder, Magnus Sheffield, Dario Belingheri, Adam Hansen, Associés, Hansen, it’s, ” Hansen, “, Tom Pidcock, Ineos, we’re, Joel Sagat, ” Jonathan Vaughters, ”, we’ve, –, Marco Bertorello, Jonas Vingegaard, Dauphiné, Vingegaard, Jumbo –, Tadej, Pogačar, Egan Bernal Organizations: CNN, de France, Tour de Suisse, de Suisse, Tour de France, CNN Sport, –, Suisse, Getty, CPA, Union Cycliste Internationale, Post, Guardian, “, UAE Emirates, Goyvaerts, de, USA Network, NBC, Eurosport, ITV Locations: Swiss, La Punt, Chur, 100kph, lycra, AFP, Dauphine, Switzerland, France, Bilbao, Spain, Paris, Danish, Slovenian, Pogačar, UAE

☆ Exclusive: Latam unicorn Merama cuts nearly 10% of staff amid 'strategy' refocus
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Isabel Woodford | Thomson Reuters | Isabel Is A British-Spanish Journalist Based In Mexico City. She Joined Reuters In As Part Of The Latin America News Hub | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The company, which has raised $345 million in funding from the likes of SoftBank Group (9984.T) and was last valued at $1.2 billion, has headquarters in Mexico and Brazil. CEO Sujay Tyle said the total number laid off was around 8-9%, with the company's headcount remaining over 400 employees. He added that those affected were concentrated in projects that were no longer a priority, with plans to refocus on brands generating over $15 million in revenue. "It was a difficult day," Tyle said of the layoffs, adding there were no plans for another series of job cuts. Tyle added that the company had a "quite healthy runway" and was now cash flow positive.

Persons: Sujay Tyle, Tyle, Isabel Woodford, Diane Craft Organizations: MEXICO CITY, Reuters, SoftBank, Thomson Locations: MEXICO, Mexico, Brazil, Brazilian, Colombian

☆ The Indigenous Guardsmen Who Rescued Colombia’s Missing Children
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Genevieve Glatsky | Julie Turkewitz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Then, just beyond the broad leaves of the jungle, Nicolás Ordóñez could make out the form of a small girl, a baby in her arms. Mr. Ordóñez, 27, a young man from the humblest of backgrounds, stepped forward, soon to become a national hero. He and three other men had found four Colombian children who had survived a terrifying plane crash followed by 40 harrowing days in the Amazon rain forest — and whose plight had drawn worldwide attention. But these men did not wear the uniform of the Colombian military, or any other force backed by millions of dollars mobilized for the massive search. Instead, they were members of a civilian patrol known as the Indigenous Guard — a confederation of defense groups that have sought to protect broad swaths of Indigenous territory from violence and environmental destruction linked to the country’s long internal conflict.

Persons: Ordóñez Organizations: Colombian, Indigenous Guard

☆ WTA roundup: Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff cruise in England
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Pegula posted a 6-3, 6-4 victory over 24th-ranked Qinwen Zheng of China in 1 hour, 38 minutes, while Gauff fired six aces en route to a 6-3, 6-2 win over Bernarda Pera in 61 minutes. Also on Tuesday, Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia secured a 6-1, 7-5 win over Madison Brengle and fourth-seeded Ons Jabeur of Tunisia captured a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Italian Jasmine Paolini. Samsonova recorded 18 aces to secure a 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-3 win over the 18-year-old Noskova. Spain's Rebeka Masarova registered seven aces en route to a comprehensive 6-3, 6-2 victory over the Canadian, a former U.S. Open champion and the runner-up at this tournament last year. Also on Tuesday, eighth-seeded Varvara Gracheva notched a 6-2, 7-5 win over Italian Sara Errani.

Persons: Coco Gauff, Bernarda Pera, Paul Childs, Jessica Pegula, Pegula, Zheng, Gauff, Camila Osorio, Jodie Burrage, Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, Madison Brengle, Jasmine Paolini ., Beatriz Haddad Maia, Marie Bouzkova, Samsonova, Linda Noskova, Bianca Andreescu, Spain's Rebeka Masarova, Varvara Gracheva, Sara Errani Organizations: Eastbourne International, Lawn Tennis Club, Bernarda, U.S, Rothesay International, Bernarda Pera, Wednesday, Colombian, Madison, Thomson Locations: Eastbourne, Britain, Rothesay, England, China, Great Britain, Tunisia, Czech Republic, Bad Homburg, U.S

NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday imposed sanctions on two New York lawyers who submitted a legal brief that included six fictitious case citations generated by an artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel in Manhattan ordered lawyers Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca and their law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman to pay a $5,000 fine in total. Levidow, Levidow & Oberman said in a statement on Thursday that its lawyers "respectfully" disagreed with the court that they acted in bad faith. Lawyers for Avianca first alerted the court in March that they could not locate some cases cited in the brief. His order also said the lawyers must notify the judges, all of them real, who were identified as authors of the fake cases of the sanction.

Persons: District Judge P, Kevin Castel, Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca, Levidow, Oberman, Schwartz, LoDuca, Avianca, Bart Banino, Sara Merken, Leigh Jones, Jamie Freed Organizations: YORK, District Judge, Colombian, Avianca, Thomson, & $ Locations: U.S, York, ChatGPT . U.S, Manhattan

☆ Titanic Submersible Still Missing, Search Efforts Continue
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Lost in the Amazon: How Four Child Survivors of Plane Crash Were Found Four young siblings spent 40 days in the Colombian jungle after their plane crashed. A family member and the military general who oversaw the search operations describe the grueling conditions and how the children were able to survive. Photo illustration: Ryan Trefes

Persons: Ryan Trefes Locations: Colombian

☆ Colombia senate votes down recreational marijuana bill
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] People demonstrate in front of the Colombian Congress, in favor of the regulation of marijuana for adult use in Bogota, Colombia June 20, 2023. Uruguay, Canada and some states in the U.S. allow the sale of recreational marijuana. Backers including Interior Minister Luis Fernando Velasco said recreational marijuana's continued illegality only benefits criminals. "From the government we will insist on this issue," Velasco said in quotes shared by the Senate on Twitter. We have majorities, we lacked seven votes," he tweeted after the vote on the bill, which needed 54 votes in favor and won 47, with 43 against.

Persons: Luisa Gonzalez BOGOTA, Gustavo Petro, Luis Fernando Velasco, Velasco, Juan Carlos Losada, Oliver Griffin, Carlos Vargas, Julia Symmes Cobb, Alexander Smith Organizations: Colombian, REUTERS, Colombia's, Senate, Twitter, Liberal Party, Thomson Locations: Bogota, Colombia, Uruguay, Canada, U.S

BUENOS AIRES/NEW YORK, June 18 (Reuters) - Argentina and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have a $44 billion dilemma, with the two sides set to meet for crunch talks to revamp the country's huge, wobbling debt deal, key to avoiding default on billions in looming debt payments. Economy Minister Sergio Massa is expected in Washington as early as this week to try to unlock talks to accelerate IMF disbursements and ease economic targets attached to the deal, with investors and traders watching closely. "The fund knows that Argentina is a problem, it is its main debtor, but it seems to me that the negotiation has stagnated. Reuters Graphics'DAMAGE CONTROL'The government is hoping to bring forward over $10 billion in IMF disbursements scheduled for this year, though is reluctant to agree to tough austerity measures with an eye on October general elections where it faces likely defeat. "Investors are paying real attention to signs from the IMF negotiations," said economist Gustavo Ber.

Persons: Sergio Massa, Ricardo Delgado, Massa, Hugo Godoy, Gustavo Ber, Walter Bianchi, Rodrigo Campos, Adam Jourdan, Daniel Wallis Organizations: BUENOS AIRES, International Monetary Fund, Economy, IMF, Reuters Graphics, Reuters, Institute of International Finance, Reuters Graphics Reuters, Thomson Locations: BUENOS, Argentina, Washington, Argentine, Buenos Aires, China

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: Trump, the hoarder in chief
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. Photos included in the 38-count indictment of former President Donald Trump and his aide Walt Nauta show bankers boxes stacked in a bathroom and other parts of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. Trump has always hung onto news clippings, documents and other mementos,” The New York Times reported. “Trump is chaotic and unpredictable in a way that could lead other Republicans to believe that there is a chance he won’t make it to the convention. As Zelizer noted, “Trump has denied wrongdoing, claiming he is being unfairly targeted.”But “given this unusual context, Republicans have legitimate reasons to think that there could be an upset.

Persons: Harry Fellowes, Fellowes, Harry Fellowes couldn’t, Donald Trump, Walt Nauta, Trump, Kim Jong, Mr, Jack Smith’s, Peter Bergen, ” Bergen, Nick Anderson, David Zurawik, “, ” Zurawik, ” Clay Jones, ” Trump, Jill Filipovic, ” Dana Summers, John Avlon, MAGA hasn’t, Gautham Rao, Donald Trump’s, Dean Obeidallah, Hillary Clinton, Phil Hands, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Julian Zelizer, “ Trump, ”, Facebook Trump, Zelizer, Republican Alice Stewart, Joe Biden, Mike, Pence, Agency Stewart, I’m, that’s, Chris Christie, Christie, Cupp, ’, Frida Ghitis, Mucutuy, –, Cristin, Tien Ranoque, ” Ghitis, David Andelman, Ruth Ben Ghiat, Brett Bruen, Sébastien Roblin, Michael Bociurkiw, Father’s, Edward S, Feldman, Harrison Ford, David G, Allan, Tom Hanks, ” Allan, I’ve, Ford, Indiana Jones, Steve Majors, Young, Joyce M, Davis, Pete Buttigieg, ” Davis, Buttigieg, Don’t, Tom Stiglich, Syndicate David Culver, Opal Lee, Dion Sims, Black, Juneteenth Scott Hodge, Roxanne Jones, LeBron James, NBA Joshua Douglas, Samuel Huneke, Jere Hester, they’re, Sir Paul McCartney, John Lennon’s, Yoko Ono, Lennon’s, McCartney Organizations: CNN, White, The New York Times, West Wing, Tribune, Agency, US, Trump, Miami Mayor, Republican, Twitter, Facebook, intel, New, New Jersey Gov, Paramount Pictures, “, Syndicate, NBA, Central Press, Hulton, Beatles, BBC Locations: Trump’s, Mar, Miami, New Jersey, China, Philadelphia, Atlanta , Georgia, Harrisburg , Pennsylvania, Jamaica

☆ Downhill skateboarding: Why five women embarked on a 3,500-mile skateboard journey across Europe
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

But for Anna Pixner, downhill skateboarding at speed evokes a different feeling: freedom. Journalists and spectators are still quick to point out that she is an exception to the norm in the male-dominated world of downhill skateboarding, but Pixner has tired of such comments. According to director Marchella De Angelis, downhill skateboarding "is very risky. Pixner tells CNN Sport that she finds skating to be “a very good tool to help with all kinds of mental issues. Pixner is one of a growing number of people who hope that downhill skateboarding will soon become part of the Games’ roster.

Persons: Anna Pixner, Pixner, “ There’s, ”, “ Woolf, Jenny Schauerte, Marchella De Angelis, Hanegraef, Lisa Peters, Alejandra Gutierrez –, ” Pixner, “, you’re, De Angelis, aren’t, it’s, It’s Organizations: CNN, Journalists, CNN Sport, Sony, 2Dare2, Racing Locations: London, Innsbruck, Austria, Turkey, what’s

☆ Pictures of the week
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Dave Lucas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Soldiers of the Colombian Air Force give medical attention inside a plane to the surviving children, aged 1 through 13, of a Cessna 206 plane crash in the thick jungle, while they are transferred to Bogota by air in San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia,...moreSoldiers of the Colombian Air Force give medical attention inside a plane to the surviving children, aged 1 through 13, of a Cessna 206 plane crash in the thick jungle, while they are transferred to Bogota by air in San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, June 9. Four indigenous children survived for more than five weeks in the Colombian jungle after a plane crash that killed their mother and two other adults. via Colombian Air ForceClose

Persons: San Jose del Organizations: Colombian Air Force, Cessna Locations: Bogota, San Jose, San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, Colombian

☆ 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 Survived on Fruit, Nuts and Wits After Crash in Amazon Jungle
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Juan Forero | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia—The four small children who survived 40 days in the Colombian jungle after the plane they were traveling in crashed made it on a small supply of food scavenged from the luggage as well as nuts and wild fruit found on the forest floor, relatives and the country’s army said.

Organizations: JOSE DEL GUAVIARE Locations: Colombia, Colombian

☆ Colombia ex-candidate Zuluaga violated law with funds from Odebrecht -AG
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Colombian presidential candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga casts his vote during congressional and presidential coalitions elections that will determine which candidates will head to the first round of presidential voting, in Bogota, Colombia March 13, 2022. Courtesy of Oscar Ivan Zuluaga Press... Read moreBOGOTA, June 13 (Reuters) - Former Colombia presidential candidate and minister Oscar Ivan Zuluaga violated the law when he received money from disgraced Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht, the Colombian attorney general's office said on Tuesday. It was not immediately possible to obtain comment from Zuluaga or Odebrecht. In 2014, Zuluaga met on several occasions with the former head of Odebrecht in Colombia, Eleuberto Antonio Martorelli, the prosecutor said. The alleged lies to the council led it to close an investigation into Zuluaga, the statement added.

Persons: Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, Read, general's, Odebrecht, Oscar Ivan Zuluaga Escobar, Zuluaga, Eleuberto Antonio Martorelli, Zuluaga's, David Zuluaga, Cecilia Elvira Alvarez, Julia Symmes Cobb, Nick Zieminski Organizations: Colombian, Oscar Ivan Zuluaga Press, U.S, Electoral Council, Odebrecht, Thomson Locations: Bogota, Colombia, BOGOTA, Colombian, Swiss, Latin America, Odebrecht, Brazilian, Panama, Zuluaga

☆ 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

☆ Eldest of rescued Colombian children pulled sister from plane wreckage
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BOGOTA, June 12 (Reuters) - The eldest of the four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia's southern jungle after a plane crash pulled her youngest sibling from the wreckage, the children's grandfather said on Monday. The oldest sister, Lesly, whose courage has been hailed by authorities as key to the children's survival, pulled the youngest child, Cristin, from the plane, grandfather Narciso Mucutuy said in videos posted by the defense ministry. The children spent four days near the wreckage, he said, eating flour that had been onboard, before wandering from the site. Colombian Air Force/Handout via REUTERSLesly was exhausted by the time they were rescued, Mucutuy added. The father of the two youngest siblings has said the children will tell their own story about the ordeal.

Persons: Lesly, Narciso Mucutuy, Mucutuy, San Jose del, REUTERS Lesly, Wilson, Adriana Velasquez, Rescuers, Julia Symmes Cobb, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Cessna, Colombian Air Force, REUTERS, Twitter, Thomson Locations: BOGOTA, Caqueta province, Bogota, San Jose, San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia

CNN —Eating cassava flour helped save the lives of four children found alive in the Amazon jungle more than a month after their plane crashed, according to a Colombian military special forces official. The children ate “three kilograms (six pounds) of farina,” a coarse cassava flour commonly used by indigenous tribes in the Amazon region, said spokesperson Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez Suárez. The children’s mother Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia was killed in the plane crash on May 1, leaving them alone and stranded in the Amazon jungle. The children’s disappearance sparked a massive military-led search operation that saw more than one hundred Colombian special forces troops and over 70 indigenous scouts combing the deep forest. They told officials that they had found a dog – a Belgian Shepherd search dog named Wilson that belonged to special forces.

Persons: farina, Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez, ” Suárez, “, ”, Ranoque, Cristin Ranoque, What’s, Ivan Velasquez, Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia, Hernando Murcia Morales, Herman Mendoza Hernández, Belgian Shepherd, Wilson, Suárez, Gustavo Petro, ” Petro Organizations: CNN, Colombian Air Force, Colombian Defense, Colombian Locations: Colombian, Bogota, Belgian, Colombia

☆ 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

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