On loudspeakers, they play audio of the children’s grandmother calling out to them in Uitoto, their native language. For the past 13 days, they have been combing the jungle, inch by inch. The mission to find the children is called Operation Hope, and involves more than 100 soldiers, trained for high-impact operations. The site where a footprint was found (bottom right, at the edge of the stream). Locals in Cachiporro have been helping to search for the missing children, in cooperation with Colombia’s military forces. He says that communication is mainly via radio, through devices connected to solar panels. Pablo Martínez, who knows the area, explained that the town once had a small school and an airstrip for light planes. The closest place to the site of the crash is Cachiporro, a community on the river. It is said that he was worried about Magdalena and so decided to accompany her on her trip from Araracuara, a community that was formed around an Amazonian prison that is the source of troubling memories. The seventh person on board the plane was indigenous leader Hermán Mendoza Hernández, who was married and had a daughter. For now, the story of what happened to the children is fragmented and incomplete. Since then, Petro has been closely following the case, saying that finding the children as soon as possible is the country’s top priority. He had been misinformed by an official institution. Colombian President Gustavo Petro mistakenly announced that the four children had been found alive, and had to correct himself hours later.
The children’s names are Lesly Jacobo Bonbaire (13 years old), Solecni Ranoque Mucutui (nine years old), Tien Noriel Ronoque Mucutui (four years old) and Cristian Neryman Ranoque Mucutui (11 months old), and all of Colombia is on edge as it awaits news of their fate. A soldier and a dog take part in a search operation for child survivors from a Cessna 206 plane that crashed in the jungle. Colombian authorities are hopeful that they survived the crash and are wandering the jungle until they run into civilization or are found.
On Thursday, their bodies were handed over to forensics experts. The corpses of the three adults were found inside the aircraft and near the debris. Communications cut out, and nothing more was heard from the plane. Halfway into the trip, when the plane was flying over Caquetá, over the Apaporis River in the middle of the Amazon jungle, the pilot, Hernando Murcia Morales, radioed in an engine failure. It is believed that there are still isolated indigenous communities on that route. The flight left Araracuara and was supposed to land in San José del Guaviare. But the plane never reached its destination.
He was hoping to meet his family in the city, and from there they would travel together to Bogotá, where they would start from scratch. Believing his life was at risk, Ranoque fled the community, ending up in the city of Villavicencio, in the Eastern Plains. The mystery of Ranoque’s disappearance came to light: he had been threatened by guerrillas. He believes they should never have boarded the Cessna 206, which was piloted by a man who had previously been a taxi driver. He is to blame,” says Fidencio Valencia, the uncle of the mother, Magdalena Mucutuy, by phone. “The father told them: ‘Come quickly, quickly, quickly.’ That’s why my niece and the children got on that plane. So on May 1 - 19 days ago - his wife and their four children boarded a single-engine plane, specialized in extreme flights, heading towards a new life. Then, just as he was beginning to fade from memory, the man called his family and asked them to meet him as soon as possible, saying there was no time to lose. For weeks, the community chatted and gossiped about what had happened. The most striking part of his disappearance was that he left his entire family behind. No one knew where he was it was as if the ground had swallowed him up. Locals in Puerto Sábalo were shocked when Ranoque, a man of great standing in the community, disappeared overnight without a trace. The site has a small dirt runway, where only the most daring pilots attempt to land. Manuel Ranoque was the governor of the indigenous reservation of Puerto Sábalo, a remote Colombian community in the middle of the Amazon jungle that can only be accessed by air or by river.
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