The military believe that children go alone, that no adult guides their steps through the jungle. The children's grandmother assured this Wednesday that her grandchildren are safe with some indigenous people and that she will soon be able to hug them.
"Hope is not lost," insist the Colombian Army Special Forces. "A little more than 500 meters to the west of the site of the aircraft accident, tennis shoes (t-shirts), a diaper and a towel were found. And 420 meters northwest of the accident site, a diaper, a cell phone casing and a lid of a teapot", reads a statement from the military command.
"We have found traces of small flip-flops, we have found traces of very small bare feet and everything indicates that the children are definitely alone. We have never found a trace of a large shoe," commented Colonel Gustavo Narváez.
"He looked at him and told me that two children have wounds. But the oldest one takes care of them and cleans them with any little thing," the grandmother, María Fátima Valencia, told the Colombian magazine Semana, after maintaining contact, via mobile, with a shaman found in the area. "He told me that the indigenous people have surrounded them, that the children are alive and they are going to find them. The children are alive, thank God. I hope they come because they already put a lot of people in there."
Despite the time that has elapsed and the extreme conditions that the four brothers would be enduring in the heart of the virgin jungle, in Colombia they hope to rescue them alive.
Hence, the Government has reinforced the large group that is looking for them with 80 indigenous people from different places and ethnic groups, among which are the Nukak-maku, those who best know the jungle where the plane in which Lesly, 13 years old, was traveling fell. ; soleiny, nine; Tien Noriel, four; and Cristin Neriman, only 11 months old. Also in the plane was his mother, Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia, 33, the pilot, Hernando Murcia, and Herman Mendoza, an indigenous leader. The three died in the accident and their mortal remains were transferred to the Legal Medicine of Villavicencio, capital of Meta, to carry out the autopsy.
Since the plane appeared two weeks after the incident, which occurred on May 1 in the department of Caquetá, in the south of the country, and found only the bodies of the three adults inside, they began the hope operation thinking that the children would be protected in the proximitys.
At first there were 60 soldiers who combed the area. Later they increased the contingent to 150 uniformed officers and added about thirty indigenous people who know how to move through the jungle. And on Tuesday almost a hundred were added.
"We had an area of 19 by 17 kilometers and now we are covering an area of 20 by 20 kilometers," said Colonel Narváez.
In addition to wild animals such as ocelots, jaguars and the difficulty of feeding, the brothers, from the Huitoto ethnic group, must face the storms and deluges these days. But having grown up in such an environment, the military hopes they can overcome so much adversity.
The father of the children, Manuel Ranoque, governor of the Puerto Sábalo Los Monos community, also participates in the search. A month before the incident, he had to leave his farmhouse due to threats from a criminal gang about which they have not provided further details.
He traveled to San José del Guaviare, capital of the department of Guaviare, where his family had to arrive on the tragic 1st of May. "I very strongly hope that they find the children soon, that they can bring them home very soon," he said at the beginning of the operation Esperanza. A desire that all his compatriots share.
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