2023-05-22 23:04:45
This holiday Monday the testimony of an elder of the Military Forces that participates in the search for the four lost children in the jungle between Caquetá and Guaviare, after the plane in which they were traveling along with three adults crashed.
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The soldier, who preferred not to give his name for security reasons, narrated what it has been like to carry out the Operation Hope in which 150 people from the Military Forces participate, prepared to enter complex terrain where there are Adverse conditions.
The uniformed man’s first comment was to say that as an older man he and his companions are Committed to finding minors lost since May 1, when the plane that was going between Araracuara and San José del Guaviare reported an emergency. “The premise of the Colombian Special Forces is to save lives,” he recounted by radio to the control point set up for this operation.
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Footprints of the four missing children.
After that, he went on to narrate that “on the ground that we are the vegetation is totally humidas the Colombian jungle is characterized, a tropical jungle, in which 90 percent of the 24 hours of the day there is rain, there is storm”.
And he added that “all the nights that we have spent in the search area as a whole have been storms, but that is what the Colombian commandos are trained for, to accomplish the impossible.” Also, he described that this type of vegetation has hindered mobility of people, something they have had to deal with all the time.
In the area, in addition to the presence of the military, there is the father of minors and 20 indigenous people from the region accompanied by specialized canines in search of people.
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In the case of the eldest, since he entered the Forces, he has gained experience for 12 years in carrying out special operations, and for this search he has been attentive in the last two weeks to the clues to the whereabouts of the children as the bottle and footprintswhich have given them encouragement and clues to know where to continue.
Search for lost children in Guaviare.
The first items he found along with the rest of the soldiers were the bottle and passion fruit on May 15, and since then they have used different strategies to find them, such as making ground and air loudspeakers and throw survival kits and so leave traces.
The first clue was the bottle, and an hour later they found the passion fruit, which had been bitten by a human being. While of the footprints he commented that they were found thanks to the work of the indigenous communities of the Araracuara and Apaporis.
Regarding his intimate life, the older man recounted that at night he thinks of his familyespecially in his son, highlighting that the work he performs in Operation Hope is done as if he were his little son.
Carlos Lopez
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