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<strong>The long read</strong>: When a small plane carrying a mother and her children went down in a remote part of the Amazon, the odds of their survival looked bleaker as the days went by. How could they be found?
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The long-marginalised civilian patrol played a key role in finding the four children lost in the Amazon jungle following a plane crash
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New York Times: At first, Nicolás Ordóñez heard a soft cry in the jungle.
Colombia’s president awarded medals to members of the search party that found the four Indigenous children in one of the world’s toughest terrains.
Dairo Kumariteke had been trudging through the Colombian rainforest for 20 days when he heard the distant, faint cry. He stopped and signalled to the other three members of the search party to stay still.Minutes later he heard it again. Miles from any settlement, the whimper was that of a baby; the