June 11, 2023, 4:02 PM
June 11, 2023, 4:02 PM
Manuel Ranoque, father of the four children who were lost for 40 days in the Amazon jungle of Colombia after surviving a plane crash and were rescued on Friday, assured this Sunday that he is threatened by the Carolina Ramírez Front of the FARC dissidents.
“I am going to live full time in Bogotá because I have problems and difficulties with the In front of Carolina Ramírez who is looking for me”, the man told reporters in front of the Central Military Hospital in Bogotá, where his children are recovering.
Ranoque, indigenous Muinane from the community of Puerto Sábalo-Los Monos, in the southern department of Caquetá, assured that the threats he has received are for “economic interest” and that the dissidents began to pressure them by threatening their children.
The father of the minors, who did not give further details, stated that it is “an objective” for the Carolina Ramírez Front because he knows all that area of the Colombian Amazon, one of the reasons why he wanted to get his wife, Magdalena Mucutuy, out of there, who died in the plane crash that occurred on May 1.
Thus He asked for “decent housing”, as well as guaranteeing the education of his children and the safety of your entire family.
In the region where Ranoque and his family lived, the Carolina Ramírez Front, which belongs to the Central General Staff (EMC), the largest dissident of the FARC, and the Bolivarian Commandos of the Second Marquetalia Border, another dissident, operate.
The minors were found on Friday in a remote point between the departments of Caquetá and Guaviare, where some 200 soldiers, including commandos of the Army Special Forces, and indigenous people from the area, all of them integrated in “Operation Hope”.
A Colombian Air Force (FAC) helicopter took the children out of the jungle on Friday night and took them to San José del Guaviare, capital of the department of Guaviare, where a C-295 plane configured as an ambulance picked them up and transported them to the capital.
The rescued are the girl Lesly Mukutuy, 13 years old and who was in charge of taking care of his brothers Soleiny Mukutuy, 9; She has Noriel Ronoque Mukutuy, five years old, and Cristin Neruman Ranoque, a one-year-old baby.
All this after the accident that occurred on May 1 when a Cessna 206 plane operated by the Avianline Charter’s company in which the four children were traveling along with their mother, an indigenous leader and the pilot, crashed in the Colombian Amazon jungle. In this event the three adults died.
“It must be said, first of all, that this is a miracle of God and, as the indigenous people believe (…) we, as indigenous people, are trained to search, showing the world that we found the plane, that we found the children,” Ranoque said.
The man, who did not give many details about the search and who confessed that his children have not told you much about how they survivedHe hopes that they “recover well and they will give their statements themselves.”
“The only thing that clarifies for her (Lesly, the eldest daughter) is that her mother was alive for four days. Before dying, the mother tells them, maybe, go away, ”she recounted.
