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When I got to the airstrip,
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my mom said,
"Lesly, we're flying to Bogotá."
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We were going to live with my stepfather.
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I didn't want to go.
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I was living
with my grandma, Fátima.
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I was going to school.
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I was actually very happy there.
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This was my first time
on an airplane.
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It wasn't too long after we took off then.
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The plane began making
a lot of strange noises.
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I was getting really scared.
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And then the engine sounded
like it was going to stop.
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The pilot called to the control tower.
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"We need help."
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He couldn't control the plane.
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Mayday!
Mayday! Mayday!
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Then, all of a sudden,
we started to fall.
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That's the last thing I remember.
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At about 08:30 in the morning,
I got a call.
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"What happened?"
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"Magdalena's plane never arrived.
It must have crashed in the jungle."
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My sister Magdalena was on it
with her four children.
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That's when it hit me.
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The sadness.
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My other daughters kept calling me,
"Mom, don't worry."
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How could I not worry?
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When a plane crashes,
no one is spared. Never.
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My heart ached.
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My daughter left with her kids
and didn't even tell me she was going.
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Magdalena had called me.
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She said,
"I'm on the plane with the kids."
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But they never arrived.
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I didn't know what to do.
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I couldn't stop thinking about my wife.
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My only son.
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His life had just begun,
and the thought of losing him...
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My baby daughter.
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My two stepdaughters.
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My dream was for them
to come and live with me in Bogotá.
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Are they still alive?
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Are they dead?
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Today,
a Censa-Doscientos-Seis aircraft
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that flew from Araracuara
was swallowed up by the jungle.
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Search efforts have begun
with aircraft and helicopters in the area.
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These works have been seen
to be complicated by the forests' weight.
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The authorities
do not rule out the fact
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that the migrants continue to live
in the middle of the jungle.
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When I finally woke up,
we were on the ground.
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There was so much blood on my face,
all over my clothes, everywhere.
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I was in so much pain.
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- I saw Tien.
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Zeleny was crying.
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I saw my mom.
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My leg hurt really bad.
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The seat had collapsed
and my shoe was stuck.
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I needed to get to Cristin.
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I could see that she was trapped
under my mom's body.
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She couldn't breathe.
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So, I slipped my foot
out of my shoe and left it there.
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I struggled, but I was able
to get my siblings out of the plane.
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I needed to try and stop the bleeding
that was gushing from my head.
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I found the first aid kit.
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Cristin cried and cried.
She was thirsty and hungry.
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I searched through the bags...
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and found a hammock...
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...a mosquito net...
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and Cristin's bottle.
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I arranged some leaves on the ground...
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and we all lay down.
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Cristin just wouldn't stop crying.
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I wasn't able to sleep.
My head and my leg hurt too much.
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For five days,
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the Colombian Air Force
flew back and forth over the area,
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searching for the missing plane,
but we didn't find anything.
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Each day that passed greatly reduced
the chances of finding them alive.
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{\an8}The high command called and said,
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{\an8}"Pedro, we need you on this.
It's time to do a ground search."
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{\an8}This was my first rescue mission.
We don't often get a chance to save lives.
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As Special Forces, our assignments
usually involve fighting guerrilla groups.
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Using the plane's
last verified coordinates
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and after calculating
a reasonable margin of error,
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we were able to establish a search area
of approximately 320 square kilometers.
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The terrain was very dense.
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It's an untouched jungle
with trees up to 40 meters tall,
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with dangerous animals
and poisonous snakes.
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But the greatest risk we faced
was getting lost in the jungle.
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The jungle
is like an enormous carpet.
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{\an8}It's like searching for...
a needle in a haystack.
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We moved quickly
to search for the plane,
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and hopefully find survivors.
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Let's advance a little further.
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Listen for anything unusual.
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Let's go.
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We were prepared to encounter the worst.
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Narco-guerrilla groups
like the FARC
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are known to operate in this area.
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We've been at war
with them for 60 years.
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The FARC at one time, actually controlled
many parts of Colombia.
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They commit acts of violence,
drug trafficking, and kidnappings.
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In the process of fighting them,
we've lost many soldiers.
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We made ourselves as invisible as possible
to go undetected by the enemy.
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{\an8}Currently,
60 commandos are keeping hope alive
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{\an8}that they will find survivors.
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{\an8}Manuel Ranoque is living
with the uncertainty of this tragedy.
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{\an8}My four kids and my wife are missing.
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I couldn't stand by and wait
for the military to locate the plane.
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I'm going to go out there
and search for my family.
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I'm not coming back until I find them.
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I needed to ask for the help
of my indigenous friends
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from the Araracuara community.
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We know how to navigate the jungle.
We're experts at it.
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The jungle is a part of us
because we grew up here.
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I volunteered. No questions.
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Because those in danger
are a part of our indigenous family.
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It was a long journey,
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about 12 hours by boat
from the nearest town.
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No one lives there.
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We believe that the jungle
finds a way to connect man to nature,
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and then through nature, to the creator.
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But the jungle
is also very dangerous.
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Certainly because of the things you see,
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but especially because of the things
that cannot be seen, not with human eyes.
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As we finally
entered the jungle,
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the weather changed drastically.
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It rained and rained.
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Our elders believe that when a spirit,
an enchanted being, if you will,
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gets angry, it causes a storm.
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I fell behind my companions.
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I called out to them,
but they were nowhere to be found.
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I tried retracing my steps three times.
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I kept thinking,
"Is a spirit playing with me?"
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I was filled with fear. I can't deny it.
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I prayed, "Don't get angry,
I'm a child of the jungle.
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"I am indigenous.
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"I come here not to harm the jungle,
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"but to search for what is ours."
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And just like that,
my partners reappeared.
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We were all starting to get worried.
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"How are we going to find the plane
with all this rain?"
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There's no trace
of anything at all.
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This went on for days.
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We were losing hope of finding the plane.
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Every day we searched,
looking through the trees, bushes, vines.
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And in every direction you could look,
it was nothing but green.
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And then, I saw something that stood out.
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It was something pink.
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A small baby bottle
in the middle of this immense jungle.
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If you think about it,
what are the chances of actually finding,
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you know, a small baby bottle like that
in a jungle of this magnitude?
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We immediately start to imagine
what could have happened.
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{\an8}Could the bottle have somehow
fallen out of the plane?
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We were mentally prepared
to find the family dead.
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Wherever we see the vultures around,
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that's where we'll find the plane,
and unfortunately, the bodies.
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We spotted a king vulture.
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We decided that we would try
and follow it.
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Then we spot the vulture.
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He was sitting on top of something.
We could see that it was something... white.
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I got a lump in my throat.
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Mrs. Magdalena was lying there.
Her body was on the seat.
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It was terrible.
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"How will Manuel take the news?"
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I couldn't believe that she was gone,
that she had abandoned me.
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Magdalena was devoted
to the children...
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to our home.
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We were trying to build a future together.
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No matter what,
she would always take me back...
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despite my mistakes.
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My poor, sweet daughter, Magdalena.
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I have nine daughters...
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but she was always the most attentive.
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If Manuel hadn't called her
to come be with him in Bogotá...
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she would still be alive today.
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I cried tears of rage, of anguish.
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I decided to burn all her things.
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My daughter is not coming back.
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She died with a grudge against me...
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because I didn't want her to go.
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Manuel asked about the children.
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I said, "I don't know.
Nothing has been confirmed."
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The command informed me
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that indigenous searchers
apparently located the plane.
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The orders came in,
"Verify it immediately."
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We found the bodies
of the adults.
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But there was no evidence
that the children didn't survive.
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We kept wondering,
"Why aren't they near the plane?"
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Just the thought of it, four children,
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13, nine, five, and 11 months,
who just lost their mother,
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all alone out there in the jungle.
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They are essentially
food for the animals.
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For the first few days,
we thought it best to stay by the plane.
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But no one came to rescue us.
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I packed two of the bags
with whatever supplies I could find.
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I was crying
from all the pain I was in.
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I was dragging my leg, crawling.
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We were searching for a way out,
out of the jungle.
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Along the way,
we ran into a couple of herds of tapirs.
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They tried to attack us.
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We stood still like statues.
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When we saw an ocelot...
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I froze with fear.
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Tien wanted to chase it.
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When there were animals,
Lesly protected us.
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And I did too.
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They would run away
because they were afraid.
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I told him to stop.
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Grandma taught us
that whenever you're in the jungle,
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you shouldn't disturb the animals.
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They're dangerous.
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- This made Tien so angry.
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He asked,
"When is Mom coming to find us?
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"She is all alone over there.
Why did we have to come here?"
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I tried to explain to him.
"Our mother is dead."
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- "No," he said, and he cried.
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- Lesly!
- Lesly!
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Lesly!
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Lesly!
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We decided if there are survivors,
we can't stay invisible.
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We have to call out to them
and make our presence known.
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Lesly!
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It's worth the risk to find them.
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{\an8}What are the chances
of finding these kids alive?
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If the impact wasn’t too fast,
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{\an8}it’s possible for the kids
in the back of the plane to survive.
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Lesly!
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{\an8}We hope they left
in search of help and food.
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At this time of year,
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there is a scarcity of fruit
making it hard to find food.
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{\an8}They are probably trying
to find a river
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and follow it to a village.
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A hundred
and more Special Forces soldiers
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saturate the jungle.
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But the rain
makes the search difficult,
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washing away any footprints.
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Leaving an entire country
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{\an8}holding its breath,
and praying for a breakthrough.
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A shelter!
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Another sign of life.
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It was a bed made of palm leaves,
cut with small scissors.
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It looked like
three or four people slept here.
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My niece and I
would always build little shelters
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when we were younger.
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I've always been close with Lesly.
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{\an8}We're both young girls
and have a lot in common.
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We both like traditional dancing...
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...and playing soccer.
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My niece Lesly is actually very similar
to her mother, my sister.
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She's a very hard worker.
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But there's a definite difference
between the two.
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Her mother didn't like to study,
but Lesly is a very good student.
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Lesly has always been a quiet girl,
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while Soleiny loves to laugh.
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Lesly is completely devoted
to her little sister Soleiny.
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It was always the two of them
who would be out there playing together.
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Lesly took very good care
of her siblings,
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of Cristin, of Tien,
and that Tien is a real earthquake.
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She's like a mother to them.
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But I can't help wondering,
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how's Lesly keeping the baby alive
in the jungle with no food?
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There were so many monkeys.
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They were laughing.
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00:26:15,115 --> 00:26:16,742
The monkeys were teasing us.
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They jumped from tree to tree.
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They made
the milpesos fruit fall,
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and we caught them.
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00:26:36,929 --> 00:26:41,558
We were so hungry,
so we ate the milpesos fruit.
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I made sure to give
the softest ones to Cristin.
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Cristin cried.
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She was so thirsty.
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I asked Soleiny
to pass me the baby bottle.
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She looked all over but couldn't find it.
274
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It's just that we took
a little rest
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and I must have dropped the bottle.
It got lost.
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"How could you lose it?
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"What do I do now?"
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I tried using a bottle cap
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to give Cristin
one little sip of water at a time.
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We asked Manuel,
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"Are your kids tough enough
to make it through the forest?"
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He said, "No, Tien is lazy.
283
00:28:03,098 --> 00:28:05,767
"He and the younger girl
are not good walkers.
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"The kids can't be far."
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Tien!
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Whoo!
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Lesly!
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Whoo! Whoo!
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Finally, we heard a response.
We were so happy, "We found the kids!"
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00:28:27,456 --> 00:28:29,041
But it wasn't the kids at all.
291
00:28:30,542 --> 00:28:33,462
It was a Special Forces team,
Destroyer One.
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00:28:36,465 --> 00:28:38,467
We knew the indigenous
search team was in the area,
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but we didn't know their exact location.
294
00:28:43,055 --> 00:28:45,515
There was a lot of tension
between the two groups.
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00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:50,979
It was a tricky thing, for sure.
How could we talk to them?
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00:28:52,856 --> 00:28:55,609
Over the years,
there have been numerous altercations
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between indigenous communities
and the military
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in the fight against drug trafficking.
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Our indigenous
communities are poor.
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There are no roads.
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00:29:11,667 --> 00:29:13,460
Many houses lack electricity.
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00:29:13,669 --> 00:29:17,589
We're totally abandoned by the state.
303
00:29:19,049 --> 00:29:21,510
So, narco-guerrillas
control our territory.
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00:29:21,635 --> 00:29:22,803
Attention!
305
00:29:24,513 --> 00:29:27,975
They have weapons,
so we have to do whatever they tell us to.
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00:29:29,810 --> 00:29:32,854
{\an8}Indigenous people end up working
with the guerrilla groups.
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00:29:34,064 --> 00:29:38,360
They grow coca, transport drugs.
The military can't allow that.
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00:29:40,487 --> 00:29:42,364
So, that's why we fight the guerrillas.
309
00:29:47,744 --> 00:29:49,871
This includes
the indigenous communities
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that the guerrillas have infiltrated.
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00:29:58,672 --> 00:30:03,385
That night, they set up camp
quite a distance away from us.
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00:30:05,721 --> 00:30:09,725
We put security measures in place.
We set traps and stationed sentries.
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00:30:10,851 --> 00:30:13,020
We made sure to monitor their every move.
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00:30:14,771 --> 00:30:17,107
We can't leave our weapons laying around.
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00:30:18,150 --> 00:30:20,318
What if there's
a guerrilla group out there?
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00:30:22,487 --> 00:30:24,364
We decided that the next day,
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00:30:24,448 --> 00:30:27,117
it would be best
if we go our separate ways.
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00:30:41,173 --> 00:30:44,760
Little by little,
I tried to see if I could use my leg.
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I took some steps,
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00:30:50,724 --> 00:30:54,603
leaning on a stick
that I had found on the ground.
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00:30:58,065 --> 00:31:01,109
It only hurt a little.
322
00:31:01,193 --> 00:31:03,528
Thank God
I was able to walk again.
323
00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:15,749
The army is looking for you.
324
00:31:15,832 --> 00:31:19,377
My love, please stay still.
325
00:31:21,004 --> 00:31:22,422
Please stay in one place.
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00:31:26,968 --> 00:31:30,013
I heard a voice. It was far away.
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00:31:32,724 --> 00:31:35,685
It sounded like my grandmother.
328
00:31:48,949 --> 00:31:52,994
Lesly, this is your grandmother Fátima.
329
00:31:53,078 --> 00:31:55,288
I haven't abandoned you.
330
00:31:56,331 --> 00:32:00,252
Is it true?
Is that really her? Is it?
331
00:32:02,295 --> 00:32:04,965
We made a recording
of their grandmother's voice
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00:32:05,048 --> 00:32:10,470
in Spanish and in their language, Huitoto,
so the kids would be more trusting.
333
00:32:20,397 --> 00:32:22,399
Are they looking for us?
334
00:32:23,692 --> 00:32:24,943
I didn't believe it.
335
00:32:27,612 --> 00:32:29,614
So, I wanted to keep walking.
336
00:32:34,452 --> 00:32:36,371
We were sure
the kids could hear us.
337
00:32:37,956 --> 00:32:40,458
"Why don't they come out?
Why don't they answer?"
338
00:32:45,005 --> 00:32:49,593
We transitioned
to stronger tactics, more aggressive.
339
00:32:51,595 --> 00:32:56,224
We dropped 10,000 flyers
with the grandmother's message.
340
00:32:58,685 --> 00:33:02,314
We dropped food supplies.
341
00:33:06,484 --> 00:33:10,363
We laid 11 kilometers,
or roughly seven miles of caution tape.
342
00:33:11,323 --> 00:33:14,159
We hung whistles on it
so the kids could signal us.
343
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,549
We blasted music
like a big concert.
344
00:33:36,223 --> 00:33:40,143
Of course, with all that disturbance,
the weather turned bad.
345
00:33:44,564 --> 00:33:47,317
There's a spirit here
that doesn't like the noise.
346
00:33:51,196 --> 00:33:53,865
The White man's
technology and techniques...
347
00:33:55,283 --> 00:33:56,534
didn't work at all.
348
00:33:58,828 --> 00:34:00,455
It was time for a different approach.
349
00:34:01,373 --> 00:34:03,458
It was time to look with other eyes.
350
00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:06,753
So, we called
for indigenous reinforcements.
351
00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:19,140
The team that found the plane
was exhausted.
352
00:34:20,642 --> 00:34:23,728
Now it's our turn to go
and rescue my nieces and nephew.
353
00:34:25,397 --> 00:34:27,732
The indigenous searchers
found the plane, not us.
354
00:34:29,317 --> 00:34:33,238
{\an8}So, we believe the indigenous people
would also be able to find the kids.
355
00:34:33,321 --> 00:34:36,157
- When?
- Always and forever!
356
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,330
I received orders
to bring in 85 indigenous people
357
00:34:42,414 --> 00:34:44,124
from other parts of Colombia
358
00:34:44,582 --> 00:34:47,585
and integrate the indigenous
with the commandos.
359
00:34:48,295 --> 00:34:50,880
The orders said, "Trust but verify."
360
00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:58,388
I ordered background checks for everyone
to prevent any infiltration
361
00:34:58,471 --> 00:35:00,015
by a narco-criminal group.
362
00:35:00,140 --> 00:35:04,477
We'll work together, as combined cells.
363
00:35:04,603 --> 00:35:06,229
Comrades salute!
364
00:35:06,313 --> 00:35:09,357
The search will benefit
365
00:35:09,441 --> 00:35:13,737
from their Indigenous knowledge
of the jungle.
366
00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:16,114
Courage! Courage!
367
00:35:17,782 --> 00:35:20,035
The jungle is full of mysteries...
368
00:35:20,952 --> 00:35:23,580
that the military isn't equipped to solve.
369
00:35:23,788 --> 00:35:27,959
Our friends and family told us,
"You need to bring an indigenous elder."
370
00:35:29,294 --> 00:35:33,298
And for this, Don Rubio joined us.
He joined as a shaman.
371
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,052
He is a leader...
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00:35:38,470 --> 00:35:42,849
very well respected for his knowledge
of our spiritual traditions.
373
00:35:48,355 --> 00:35:50,940
Don Rubio says,
"Relax, we've got this.
374
00:35:53,443 --> 00:35:55,737
"We'll find those kids
in four or five days."
375
00:36:10,627 --> 00:36:13,672
{\an8}First of all, take me to the crash site.
376
00:36:23,139 --> 00:36:26,142
As we approach the plane,
my friend Faustino says,
377
00:36:26,476 --> 00:36:29,521
"Prepare yourself, my friend.
You have to be strong.
378
00:36:30,855 --> 00:36:32,399
"You have to be very strong."
379
00:36:51,584 --> 00:36:54,462
I saw my bag
that my sister had borrowed from me.
380
00:36:58,258 --> 00:37:01,928
I saw the children's things
and my sister's clothes, shoes...
381
00:37:04,013 --> 00:37:06,433
and a makeshift shelter of palm leaves.
382
00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:09,269
When I looked at that, I was...
383
00:37:10,478 --> 00:37:13,273
wracked with pain, overwhelmed.
384
00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:18,403
The kids slept like animals in the jungle.
385
00:37:19,446 --> 00:37:23,241
I thought, "My God.
Why is this happening to the kids?
386
00:37:23,324 --> 00:37:25,410
"Why do they have to suffer through this?
387
00:37:28,163 --> 00:37:31,666
"Why did my sister
have to die like an animal?"
388
00:37:33,168 --> 00:37:36,713
Then within me, deep within me,
389
00:37:37,005 --> 00:37:41,217
I realized this is all the fault
of that son of a bitch, Manuel.
390
00:37:55,857 --> 00:37:59,068
{\an8}Magdalena talked about
how Manuel pursued her relentlessly
391
00:37:59,152 --> 00:38:00,945
{\an8}until she agreed to live with him,
392
00:38:02,155 --> 00:38:03,740
{\an8}even though her mother disapproved.
393
00:38:06,493 --> 00:38:08,828
They moved away from her mother's village.
394
00:38:10,497 --> 00:38:15,502
When they first arrived at my community,
the boy was one year old.
395
00:38:16,836 --> 00:38:19,339
She and I soon became close friends.
396
00:38:19,798 --> 00:38:22,967
Actually, more than friends.
We were like sisters.
397
00:38:24,636 --> 00:38:27,180
We loved going to the garden
to harvest yucca.
398
00:38:29,891 --> 00:38:32,894
And we liked to party.
399
00:38:36,189 --> 00:38:39,067
She'd start dancing
to get everyone in the mood.
400
00:38:39,150 --> 00:38:41,402
She's like, "Girlfriend, let's go!"
401
00:38:44,489 --> 00:38:45,907
She would hold her husband,
402
00:38:45,990 --> 00:38:48,910
and she didn't have a care in the world
when she danced.
403
00:38:52,914 --> 00:38:56,084
At our community parties,
we dance with whoever is there.
404
00:38:58,086 --> 00:39:00,922
Manuel liked to get very close
to his dance partners.
405
00:39:02,715 --> 00:39:06,594
So, naturally,
Magdalena would get jealous.
406
00:39:10,390 --> 00:39:12,559
This would make him very angry.
407
00:39:16,855 --> 00:39:19,566
The parties always ended
the same way.
408
00:39:22,610 --> 00:39:26,322
He would beat her up.
409
00:39:26,406 --> 00:39:28,783
On a few occasions,
it was brutal.
410
00:39:34,372 --> 00:39:35,748
That's why Manuel
got in trouble
411
00:39:35,832 --> 00:39:37,375
with the guerrilla authority.
412
00:39:39,919 --> 00:39:41,963
The guerrillas set rules of conduct
413
00:39:42,797 --> 00:39:45,466
in order to keep people in line
in our communities.
414
00:39:51,222 --> 00:39:52,724
They put a gun to his head...
415
00:39:54,267 --> 00:39:55,602
and made it clear to him,
416
00:39:56,811 --> 00:40:00,106
"If you touch this woman again,
we will not forgive you."
417
00:40:00,732 --> 00:40:02,317
And now he had been warned.
418
00:40:08,573 --> 00:40:09,699
People make mistakes.
419
00:40:11,075 --> 00:40:13,244
We had arguments, like many couples do.
420
00:40:13,494 --> 00:40:17,415
Sometimes in drunken binges,
things get out of hand,
421
00:40:17,498 --> 00:40:21,044
but never anything serious,
like domestic violence.
422
00:40:21,461 --> 00:40:22,462
Never.
423
00:40:22,545 --> 00:40:25,882
My blood was boiling.
424
00:40:26,925 --> 00:40:29,636
I was ready to attack Manuel
with a machete.
425
00:40:31,471 --> 00:40:36,100
Rubio comes over and says,
'You have to control your anger.
426
00:40:37,810 --> 00:40:39,145
"Let's do it for the kids,
427
00:40:39,854 --> 00:40:44,067
"and then once we find the children,
the truth will be known."
428
00:40:50,281 --> 00:40:52,617
That night
we had a mambe session.
429
00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:59,040
Today, through our sacred plants,
we are clearing the way.
430
00:41:02,835 --> 00:41:06,047
I had one pound of mambe,
and one of ambil.
431
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,093
Mambe is a powder made from coca.
432
00:41:12,679 --> 00:41:15,807
And ambil is a paste made from tobacco.
433
00:41:20,269 --> 00:41:22,730
You take them when you have
a question in mind
434
00:41:22,814 --> 00:41:24,107
that you need answering.
435
00:41:27,902 --> 00:41:31,322
Then you get the inspiration
for whatever it is you're looking for.
436
00:41:32,657 --> 00:41:36,703
This way I can see
which way the kids went.
437
00:41:53,970 --> 00:41:57,640
"Well, shaman,
I am under your command."
438
00:41:58,975 --> 00:42:00,435
I showed him the GPS.
439
00:42:00,518 --> 00:42:05,189
"This GPS is never going
to get us anywhere because it's blank."
440
00:42:06,566 --> 00:42:10,236
"Right now, you're the GPS
of this GPS," I told him.
441
00:42:14,824 --> 00:42:17,118
In my meditation,
I sensed the kids.
442
00:42:18,286 --> 00:42:20,246
I told the others, "Let's go this way."
443
00:42:33,718 --> 00:42:35,344
When Don Rubio begins to search,
444
00:42:35,428 --> 00:42:37,722
he tells us
that he won't work with the army.
445
00:42:40,141 --> 00:42:43,352
However, the mission commander
instructs us to work with them
446
00:42:43,853 --> 00:42:46,731
and provide support. It blew my mind.
447
00:42:47,648 --> 00:42:50,234
Working with indigenous teams,
we were worried.
448
00:42:51,402 --> 00:42:53,571
How are we ever going to work together?
449
00:42:55,823 --> 00:42:58,826
I received orders to follow
400 meters behind them.
450
00:43:04,791 --> 00:43:07,835
I told the guys that finding the kids
shouldn't take long.
451
00:43:10,379 --> 00:43:13,633
The problem is that the military
have no idea what they're doing.
452
00:43:15,009 --> 00:43:16,928
This way, boys. This way.
453
00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:21,099
I was in front.
454
00:43:23,059 --> 00:43:26,479
And I saw small footprints.
455
00:43:28,606 --> 00:43:30,274
I followed the tracks.
456
00:43:32,276 --> 00:43:35,655
And further up,
we came upon a small shelter.
457
00:43:36,989 --> 00:43:38,741
- Look at this.
- Mm-hmm.
458
00:43:38,825 --> 00:43:41,244
They used their teeth to cut it.
459
00:43:48,918 --> 00:43:53,339
A short while later,
we found Cristin's little yellow shirt.
460
00:43:57,009 --> 00:43:58,761
We also found some diapers.
461
00:43:59,971 --> 00:44:01,097
And they're fresh.
462
00:44:02,306 --> 00:44:04,267
The kids must be close.
463
00:44:05,643 --> 00:44:07,520
- Lesly!
- Lesly!
464
00:44:07,603 --> 00:44:08,729
Whoa!
465
00:44:10,314 --> 00:44:13,943
Tien! Lesly!
466
00:44:22,743 --> 00:44:27,165
The days continued to pass,
and I was so hungry.
467
00:44:28,583 --> 00:44:30,209
Soleiny was too.
468
00:44:32,211 --> 00:44:35,423
All we had to eat was milpesos,
469
00:44:36,215 --> 00:44:37,341
nothing more.
470
00:44:39,343 --> 00:44:45,016
Soleiny liked to talk about food,
like the food she used to eat back home.
471
00:44:48,060 --> 00:44:50,271
Meat with sauce.
472
00:44:53,191 --> 00:44:54,442
Chicken.
473
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,280
Rice and plantain.
474
00:45:03,409 --> 00:45:07,246
I thought about the times
I wasted food and I cried.
475
00:45:12,043 --> 00:45:13,252
And at night,
476
00:45:14,170 --> 00:45:19,300
I thought mostly about my mom
and about how she died.
477
00:45:21,052 --> 00:45:23,804
I remember how my mom suffered a lot.
478
00:45:26,182 --> 00:45:29,685
I thought about the times
she gave me advice,
479
00:45:30,186 --> 00:45:32,396
and I never paid much attention.
480
00:45:35,233 --> 00:45:37,568
She always would say to me...
481
00:45:39,403 --> 00:45:43,282
someday you'll be an orphan,
and then you'll remember me.
482
00:45:46,494 --> 00:45:48,579
And I cried and cried.
483
00:45:52,583 --> 00:45:56,712
Lesly thought
that God was punishing her.
484
00:46:08,808 --> 00:46:11,852
We searched for days,
but the kids were nowhere.
485
00:46:17,066 --> 00:46:18,276
Are the kids hiding?
486
00:46:26,117 --> 00:46:29,704
After about three days, Rubio realized
that we were following him.
487
00:46:30,955 --> 00:46:32,456
"You with me?" "No."
488
00:46:33,249 --> 00:46:34,959
He was as sour as a lemon.
489
00:46:35,584 --> 00:46:39,338
He says, "I work alone."
Got it. Stubborn as a mule.
490
00:46:40,673 --> 00:46:41,757
I don't work with the military.
491
00:46:43,634 --> 00:46:46,137
My grandfather was afraid
of people with weapons
492
00:46:46,387 --> 00:46:48,681
because of the violence he experienced
during the rubber trade.
493
00:46:49,473 --> 00:46:53,644
Many of our grandparents... died this way.
494
00:46:58,190 --> 00:46:59,191
In our territory,
495
00:46:59,275 --> 00:47:01,193
between the Putumayo
and the Caquetá rivers,
496
00:47:01,277 --> 00:47:02,903
there was the rubber trade.
497
00:47:05,740 --> 00:47:09,160
During that time,
a lot of people arrived from the outside.
498
00:47:09,910 --> 00:47:11,996
They wanted to exploit our resources.
499
00:47:16,584 --> 00:47:21,339
They needed the rubber
in their cities for their machines.
500
00:47:22,923 --> 00:47:27,345
They said, "Round up the indigenous
by any means and collect the rubber."
501
00:47:31,098 --> 00:47:32,892
We were enslaved.
502
00:47:35,102 --> 00:47:36,479
There were punishments.
503
00:47:38,022 --> 00:47:39,190
Starvation.
504
00:47:41,650 --> 00:47:44,278
More than half
of our population was killed.
505
00:47:49,116 --> 00:47:52,119
We still live with the trauma
of that genocide.
506
00:47:57,083 --> 00:47:59,752
The relationship with Rubio
went from bad to worse.
507
00:48:01,170 --> 00:48:03,881
Until he accidentally cut himself
with a machete
508
00:48:03,964 --> 00:48:07,009
and needed our medic,
so we were useful to him.
509
00:48:08,010 --> 00:48:09,428
Hey, Cháman, what’s happening?
510
00:48:09,512 --> 00:48:14,308
We’re making arepas to share
with the group from Araracuara.
511
00:48:14,934 --> 00:48:16,977
Don Rubio, say hello.
512
00:48:19,563 --> 00:48:24,068
We were running low on food,
and they were willing to share theirs.
513
00:48:25,945 --> 00:48:28,614
They got closer to us, asking questions,
514
00:48:29,407 --> 00:48:31,367
like about us not wearing shirts.
515
00:48:32,410 --> 00:48:36,997
"How come mosquitoes don't bite you?
Look at us, covered in bites."
516
00:48:38,332 --> 00:48:39,583
"No, not us.
517
00:48:40,876 --> 00:48:42,253
"Nothing bites us."
518
00:48:47,550 --> 00:48:50,761
That night, Don Rubio invited me
to their mambe session.
519
00:48:50,845 --> 00:48:52,346
They have one every night.
520
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,809
{\an8}Obviously, my rifle
was strapped to my back
521
00:48:56,892 --> 00:48:58,894
{\an8}and one of my soldiers was on guard.
522
00:49:00,813 --> 00:49:04,483
Don Rubio says,
"Popeye, are you going to try Mambe?"
523
00:49:06,694 --> 00:49:10,448
Personally, I don't consider mambe
to be a narcotic.
524
00:49:12,658 --> 00:49:16,579
For indigenous communities,
mambe helps them do their daily work.
525
00:49:18,956 --> 00:49:21,709
They filled their mouths
until their cheeks were full.
526
00:49:26,088 --> 00:49:28,966
So I did the same without knowing
the right way to do it.
527
00:49:30,176 --> 00:49:31,844
It was a turning point.
528
00:49:32,386 --> 00:49:37,808
We are here
on this land, Father Creator.
529
00:49:38,517 --> 00:49:43,981
You gave us this life.
530
00:49:46,025 --> 00:49:47,526
They shared ancestral stories
531
00:49:47,651 --> 00:49:49,153
in their Huitoto language.
532
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,366
Our beliefs tell
of the first mighty beings on Earth.
533
00:49:56,410 --> 00:49:59,330
They abused the power they received
from the Creator,
534
00:49:59,497 --> 00:50:01,582
so he turned them into animals.
535
00:50:06,921 --> 00:50:09,465
These animals
are ruled by the Duende.
536
00:50:13,802 --> 00:50:15,262
The Duende is a spirit,
537
00:50:15,346 --> 00:50:17,848
a shapeshifter
that can change into a tapir...
538
00:50:19,475 --> 00:50:22,269
a snake, a jaguar.
539
00:50:24,271 --> 00:50:28,692
The Duende has the power
to take human form and lead you astray.
540
00:50:32,154 --> 00:50:35,074
And Don Rubio believes
that's what the Duende was doing
541
00:50:35,157 --> 00:50:36,242
with the kids.
542
00:50:37,660 --> 00:50:38,953
The children aren't lost.
543
00:50:39,620 --> 00:50:41,121
Who has them? The Duende.
544
00:50:42,540 --> 00:50:45,125
He appeared to them
as their grandmother, Fátima.
545
00:50:46,043 --> 00:50:48,671
He said, "You are my grandchildren.
I'll lead you."
546
00:50:49,838 --> 00:50:52,299
After that, he took the kids away.
547
00:50:53,968 --> 00:50:56,470
The Duende
has them under his power.
548
00:50:59,598 --> 00:51:01,725
But what does he want with the children?
549
00:51:04,728 --> 00:51:09,149
It was very strange to explain
what was happening to my commanders.
550
00:51:09,316 --> 00:51:12,570
It wasn't easy
because there was no logical way
551
00:51:12,653 --> 00:51:14,613
to do it, to explain it.
552
00:51:15,614 --> 00:51:18,742
For example, I reported,
"They say there's a Duende,"
553
00:51:19,618 --> 00:51:21,620
and I didn't know
how my commanders would take it
554
00:51:21,704 --> 00:51:24,957
because Special Forces never talk
about these kinds of things.
555
00:51:29,253 --> 00:51:33,382
My commandos said
they needed four bottles of liquor.
556
00:51:34,550 --> 00:51:37,219
I said, "Okay, let's do it."
557
00:51:40,848 --> 00:51:45,227
It's highly unusual for military aircraft
to be used to transport liquor.
558
00:51:46,186 --> 00:51:49,064
But the decision
from the high command was clear.
559
00:51:49,648 --> 00:51:51,900
Listen to what the indigenous people need.
560
00:51:51,984 --> 00:51:54,862
We don't want people to say
that we didn't find the kids
561
00:51:54,945 --> 00:51:56,530
because we weren't willing to listen.
562
00:51:58,282 --> 00:52:01,327
I asked my commander,
"What's this for?"
563
00:52:02,661 --> 00:52:06,081
{\an8}He said, at midnight,
place these liquor bottles
564
00:52:06,165 --> 00:52:09,627
{\an8}in the shape of a cross
at the fork of a river.
565
00:52:14,715 --> 00:52:16,759
The Duende likes liquor a lot,
566
00:52:16,842 --> 00:52:20,512
so he'll get drunk
and let the children go.
567
00:52:22,264 --> 00:52:23,641
It was frightening...
568
00:52:24,933 --> 00:52:27,269
to get these kinds of orders.
569
00:52:27,353 --> 00:52:33,317
I'm not in a Brothers Grimm,
you know, fairy tale.
570
00:52:34,068 --> 00:52:38,906
But whatever it takes to find the kids,
we have to do it.
571
00:52:42,660 --> 00:52:46,080
I knew where that river was
because we had already checked it out.
572
00:52:56,256 --> 00:52:59,510
We searched and searched,
and nothing.
573
00:53:01,595 --> 00:53:05,683
At some point, the laces
from our sergeant's boots became untied
574
00:53:05,766 --> 00:53:07,768
and the boots got tied together.
575
00:53:08,352 --> 00:53:10,604
This happened to him about five times.
576
00:53:11,689 --> 00:53:12,856
All of a sudden,
577
00:53:12,940 --> 00:53:16,026
the compass
started rapidly spinning like this.
578
00:53:17,027 --> 00:53:18,654
It wouldn't stop spinning.
579
00:53:21,407 --> 00:53:24,743
We were lost for about an hour,
hour and a half.
580
00:53:24,827 --> 00:53:26,870
Our heads were about to explode.
581
00:53:27,871 --> 00:53:29,081
"What's going on?
582
00:53:30,791 --> 00:53:32,876
"Let's get out of here before midnight."
583
00:53:34,461 --> 00:53:37,005
We found a river, but not the river fork.
584
00:53:40,092 --> 00:53:42,678
We placed the four bottles
of liquor there.
585
00:53:43,721 --> 00:53:47,850
It dawned on us that we weren't in control
of ourselves at that moment.
586
00:53:54,231 --> 00:53:55,482
I am a Catholic.
587
00:53:56,483 --> 00:54:00,237
I never believed in supernatural forces.
588
00:54:02,281 --> 00:54:03,699
But I started to think
589
00:54:04,199 --> 00:54:08,287
that perhaps a spirit might be
preventing us from finding the kids.
590
00:54:15,461 --> 00:54:16,879
Lesly!
591
00:54:19,256 --> 00:54:21,300
{\an8}I started taking mambe with them.
592
00:54:21,383 --> 00:54:24,303
{\an8}"Hey, Shaman, it's time to go.
We have to search. Come on."
593
00:54:24,970 --> 00:54:27,639
I took a spoonful,
and when we went out to search,
594
00:54:27,890 --> 00:54:31,435
I didn't get tired,
I didn't get thirsty or hungry.
595
00:54:31,518 --> 00:54:34,813
We’re doing an interview
for the news here in the jungle...
596
00:54:34,938 --> 00:54:37,316
What’s your indigenous group called?
Huitoto?
597
00:54:37,441 --> 00:54:38,525
Yes, I'm muy tonto.
598
00:54:40,819 --> 00:54:42,029
- Murui.
- Moori?
599
00:54:42,112 --> 00:54:44,907
- No, he's Murui.
- Murui.
600
00:54:47,159 --> 00:54:50,746
They took mambe, they meditated.
They truly searched with us.
601
00:54:50,871 --> 00:54:52,039
I’m counting on you.
602
00:54:52,122 --> 00:54:54,541
- if something happens to me.
- You got it.
603
00:54:55,918 --> 00:55:00,297
We were all part of the same group,
just wearing different clothes.
604
00:55:06,303 --> 00:55:08,472
Together,
we found more evidence.
605
00:55:10,807 --> 00:55:11,808
Diapers...
606
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:14,686
the boy's shoes.
607
00:55:16,688 --> 00:55:19,024
The shoes had
a huge impact on me.
608
00:55:19,483 --> 00:55:21,652
"My God, is the boy barefoot?"
609
00:55:22,528 --> 00:55:24,655
They were totally unprotected.
610
00:55:26,990 --> 00:55:29,910
Through these clues,
we began to see a pattern.
611
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:35,999
The images show that
more than 3,600 miles have been walked.
612
00:55:36,166 --> 00:55:39,169
The Indigenous children
have made circular movements.
613
00:55:39,586 --> 00:55:41,213
Lesly!
614
00:55:42,464 --> 00:55:44,007
But despite the new clues,
615
00:55:44,091 --> 00:55:45,634
with every passing day,
616
00:55:45,759 --> 00:55:48,845
{\an8}the hope of finding the children alive
drops a little.
617
00:55:56,979 --> 00:55:58,438
How can the kids survive
618
00:55:58,522 --> 00:55:59,815
after so many days?
619
00:56:00,983 --> 00:56:04,820
In the jungle, there's plenty of water,
but there isn't much to eat.
620
00:56:05,237 --> 00:56:07,990
And without food,
they can't survive much longer.
621
00:56:10,158 --> 00:56:14,746
By this point, our commandos had covered
almost 90% of the search area.
622
00:56:16,790 --> 00:56:18,709
We'd tried everything in our power.
623
00:56:23,630 --> 00:56:26,258
It wasn't like looking
for a needle in a haystack.
624
00:56:27,843 --> 00:56:29,303
It was more like...
625
00:56:30,095 --> 00:56:34,057
looking for teeny tiny fleas
in an immense carpet.
626
00:56:35,058 --> 00:56:37,769
{\an8}And the fleas kept jumping
and moving around.
627
00:56:39,855 --> 00:56:43,066
Leaving us guessing
what their next move might be.
628
00:56:47,029 --> 00:56:48,947
Who are they running from?
629
00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:52,951
Indigenous kids are afraid of the military
630
00:56:54,077 --> 00:56:56,163
because they are not familiar with them.
631
00:56:57,539 --> 00:57:02,085
They aren't afraid of the jungle,
they're afraid of people.
632
00:57:03,545 --> 00:57:07,966
They may be thinking, "If Manuel finds us,
what will he do to us? Let's hide."
633
00:57:15,390 --> 00:57:19,728
The relationship
between Manuel and Lesly was awful.
634
00:57:22,356 --> 00:57:25,400
Manuel didn't allow Lesly to play soccer...
635
00:57:26,985 --> 00:57:29,446
or hang out with other girls.
636
00:57:30,155 --> 00:57:34,534
She was not allowed
to have any kind of a social life.
637
00:57:36,912 --> 00:57:42,209
Magdalena told me that
Manuel wanted to take Lesly out of school,
638
00:57:42,584 --> 00:57:43,627
so they did.
639
00:57:46,046 --> 00:57:49,132
He made sure she spent all her time
doing housework,
640
00:57:50,634 --> 00:57:52,594
and taking care of her siblings.
641
00:57:54,596 --> 00:57:57,432
She had to obey. She was like a slave.
642
00:57:59,226 --> 00:58:02,437
And if she didn't, Manuel would get angry.
643
00:58:04,648 --> 00:58:08,235
One time, Lesly came running outside
so that Manuel wouldn't hit her
644
00:58:08,527 --> 00:58:10,153
and hid behind my husband.
645
00:58:10,779 --> 00:58:12,989
Manuel was carrying a stick.
He was going to hit her.
646
00:58:13,073 --> 00:58:14,324
Lesly was crying.
647
00:58:14,991 --> 00:58:17,661
So, she was always anxious, withdrawn.
648
00:58:18,370 --> 00:58:19,454
She was very timid.
649
00:58:21,164 --> 00:58:25,001
One afternoon
when they were visiting, I asked Lesly,
650
00:58:26,086 --> 00:58:29,297
{\an8}"Do you want to go to school here?"
"Yes, Grandma."
651
00:58:30,132 --> 00:58:32,259
{\an8}So, I said, "Magda, do me a favor.
652
00:58:32,509 --> 00:58:35,178
{\an8}"Leave the girl
with me when she starts sixth grade."
653
00:58:35,721 --> 00:58:37,639
"No," Manuel refused.
654
00:58:41,143 --> 00:58:44,396
"Magdalena works,
so who will take care of the baby?"
655
00:58:45,397 --> 00:58:48,316
I told him,
"You treat Lesly like a donkey,
656
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:50,235
"making her take care of the baby."
657
00:58:58,660 --> 00:59:01,371
I was looking for a river
so we could have water.
658
00:59:05,625 --> 00:59:07,502
And I saw something moving.
659
00:59:09,838 --> 00:59:10,922
A tortoise.
660
00:59:13,675 --> 00:59:17,929
Tien picked up a stick,
and I told him not to do that.
661
00:59:20,432 --> 00:59:21,516
"No, Tien."
662
00:59:36,948 --> 00:59:40,243
Tien kept asking me,
"Why are we here?
663
00:59:40,827 --> 00:59:43,455
"Why can't we find a way
out of this jungle?"
664
00:59:46,708 --> 00:59:49,002
I kept telling him that we were lost,
665
00:59:50,378 --> 00:59:52,130
and he refused to believe me.
666
00:59:53,131 --> 00:59:55,801
He would get angry and throw tantrums.
667
00:59:59,387 --> 01:00:02,057
I've been caring
for Tien since he was little.
668
01:00:03,391 --> 01:00:07,270
Since he was four months old,
I stayed home with him.
669
01:00:08,146 --> 01:00:09,689
I made his food every day.
670
01:00:09,773 --> 01:00:12,692
I'm tired of it all.
671
01:00:16,988 --> 01:00:21,952
Soleiny and Tien walked so slowly.
I was feeling desperate.
672
01:00:24,287 --> 01:00:26,957
I couldn't carry Cristin anymore.
673
01:00:29,751 --> 01:00:34,005
I wanted to leave my siblings behind
and go on my own.
674
01:00:56,862 --> 01:01:00,740
We couldn't find the kids,
and we were getting more and more worried.
675
01:01:04,661 --> 01:01:06,746
We couldn't find
a trace of them,
676
01:01:07,038 --> 01:01:09,666
because every day
the Duende took them to a new spot.
677
01:01:13,253 --> 01:01:16,673
Despite my knowledge,
I was being outsmarted here.
678
01:01:22,137 --> 01:01:25,223
Don Rubio
and the indigenous group were very tired.
679
01:01:25,307 --> 01:01:26,808
They were extremely sick.
680
01:01:28,643 --> 01:01:30,562
Almost all of them had pneumonia.
681
01:01:32,689 --> 01:01:36,610
We in the search team
were eating well, and yet despite that,
682
01:01:37,611 --> 01:01:39,112
we're still falling apart.
683
01:01:40,071 --> 01:01:42,908
{\an8}It's impossible for the kids
to survive much longer.
684
01:01:43,867 --> 01:01:47,037
I wish that I was the one suffering,
not the kids.
685
01:01:49,873 --> 01:01:54,753
Manuel was relaxing in the hammock,
complaining as usual.
686
01:01:57,923 --> 01:02:00,926
The Duende attacked me
in my nightmares.
687
01:02:02,594 --> 01:02:06,806
It wasn't easy
to fight such a powerful spirit.
688
01:02:07,682 --> 01:02:10,977
I said, "Brother, stop whining.
689
01:02:11,978 --> 01:02:14,147
"If you had any brains,
you wouldn't have made those mistakes
690
01:02:14,230 --> 01:02:15,941
"with my sister, so shut up."
691
01:02:26,451 --> 01:02:28,703
Someone called us
and said that...
692
01:02:28,995 --> 01:02:31,831
Manuel was bringing
another woman to the community.
693
01:02:34,042 --> 01:02:36,211
And no one had warned Magdalena.
694
01:02:37,671 --> 01:02:40,131
"What? This will be a big problem."
695
01:02:47,764 --> 01:02:50,809
Magdalena went to the port
and the other woman was there with him.
696
01:02:52,727 --> 01:02:56,147
{\an8}Manuel said that the three of them
would live together.
697
01:02:58,566 --> 01:03:00,485
Manuel was acting crazy...
698
01:03:01,736 --> 01:03:04,364
saying, "This is what
our grandparents used to do."
699
01:03:05,115 --> 01:03:07,909
He would prove
that he could have two wives
700
01:03:08,034 --> 01:03:09,411
to show how tough he is.
701
01:03:09,953 --> 01:03:13,248
And Magdalena got so angry
at him that day.
702
01:03:18,712 --> 01:03:20,797
Lesly ran off with the kids.
703
01:03:22,632 --> 01:03:26,344
After Manuel took out a machete,
they ran to the forest for safety.
704
01:03:27,178 --> 01:03:28,555
They spent the night there.
705
01:03:31,558 --> 01:03:34,185
Magdalena came to my house
at about 1:00 a.m.,
706
01:03:34,310 --> 01:03:35,645
with the baby in her arms.
707
01:03:35,770 --> 01:03:37,731
She said, "Yoli, Yoli!"
708
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:41,484
I shined a light on her and said,
"What happened to you?
709
01:03:41,860 --> 01:03:45,530
"You two fought again?
I told you to leave him.
710
01:03:46,156 --> 01:03:47,449
"What are you doing?"
711
01:03:48,283 --> 01:03:49,409
She was bleeding.
712
01:03:49,576 --> 01:03:53,038
This whole part of her face was bleeding.
The machete hit her here.
713
01:03:53,163 --> 01:03:54,831
You could see, it was all bloody.
714
01:03:58,710 --> 01:04:00,378
Manuel left in a boat...
715
01:04:01,546 --> 01:04:04,090
'cause there were witnesses
to their fight.
716
01:04:05,633 --> 01:04:10,555
So, before the guerrillas found out
what he'd done to my sister, he ran away,
717
01:04:11,848 --> 01:04:13,600
because they would have killed him.
718
01:04:20,648 --> 01:04:25,153
First of all, I'd like to say
that the reason for this meeting today
719
01:04:25,653 --> 01:04:28,406
is to let you all know
that the Destroyer One group
720
01:04:28,490 --> 01:04:33,286
has officially received orders
from our commanders.
721
01:04:33,369 --> 01:04:36,831
We were told that we are to return
to our base in San José.
722
01:04:38,666 --> 01:04:41,086
My team had been in the jungle
for almost a month.
723
01:04:41,836 --> 01:04:43,379
Everyone was exhausted.
724
01:04:44,506 --> 01:04:47,300
Another team
will be here to take our place.
725
01:04:47,425 --> 01:04:48,968
For us, we want you to know
that you’re family.
726
01:04:49,094 --> 01:04:50,386
We are going to stay in this fight.
727
01:04:50,470 --> 01:04:53,223
We won't give up until the goal
of finding the kids is achieved.
728
01:04:56,101 --> 01:04:58,895
When they said they were leaving,
I lost my focus.
729
01:05:00,021 --> 01:05:01,898
I said, "Guys,
if we don't find the kid soon...
730
01:05:02,941 --> 01:05:03,942
"they'll be dead."
731
01:05:05,443 --> 01:05:06,778
We said, "Rubio.
732
01:05:07,570 --> 01:05:11,616
"My brother, you told us that it'd take
five days to find those kids.
733
01:05:12,325 --> 01:05:13,368
"It didn't happen.
734
01:05:14,119 --> 01:05:18,456
"The truth is
that this jungle has... dominated us.
735
01:05:18,957 --> 01:05:20,667
"You know what it's time to do.
736
01:05:20,750 --> 01:05:22,085
"It's time for yagé.
737
01:05:23,128 --> 01:05:25,755
"We have no choice. It's our last resort."
738
01:05:29,342 --> 01:05:32,011
They gave me a phone number
for some indigenous people...
739
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:36,641
and asked me to contact them
to arrange for a preparation of the yagé.
740
01:05:38,017 --> 01:05:41,396
And when it was ready,
we were to deliver it to them.
741
01:05:43,439 --> 01:05:46,693
The elders in the community
are the ones who have the authority
742
01:05:46,776 --> 01:05:47,861
to make the yagé.
743
01:05:53,283 --> 01:05:57,662
Yagé is an ancestral drink.
It's also known as Ayahuasca.
744
01:06:00,623 --> 01:06:04,210
I imagine that it would induce
intense hallucinations.
745
01:06:07,797 --> 01:06:09,591
For us, yagé is not a game.
746
01:06:10,383 --> 01:06:12,510
Taking yagé is not like drinking liquor.
747
01:06:13,636 --> 01:06:17,599
It sends you flying, high above the trees.
748
01:06:19,267 --> 01:06:21,477
While waiting for the yagé to arrive,
749
01:06:23,646 --> 01:06:27,901
we built a longhouse
where the yagé itself would be taken.
750
01:06:31,196 --> 01:06:32,822
We're going to do this right.
751
01:06:45,460 --> 01:06:47,545
Sometimes I was very dizzy...
752
01:06:50,173 --> 01:06:52,467
so I would lean on the trees.
753
01:06:55,470 --> 01:06:58,431
One day,
Soleiny found a little piece of paper.
754
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:07,273
It said that they were looking for us
and we should stay in one spot.
755
01:07:10,151 --> 01:07:12,862
Tien and Soleiny wanted to stay...
756
01:07:14,822 --> 01:07:17,909
because they were tired
and didn't want to walk anymore.
757
01:07:21,746 --> 01:07:24,916
Soleiny kept falling down
and hurting herself.
758
01:07:26,459 --> 01:07:28,711
Tien could hardly stand up anymore.
759
01:07:32,090 --> 01:07:33,758
The baby wasn't well.
760
01:07:35,927 --> 01:07:39,097
All she had to eat or drink was water.
761
01:07:41,182 --> 01:07:44,602
I was afraid
that she wasn't going to survive.
762
01:07:49,607 --> 01:07:52,944
So, I decided that we would stay
right where we were.
763
01:07:58,366 --> 01:08:00,952
I set up a shelter for us to sleep in.
764
01:08:08,042 --> 01:08:11,004
I hope they're coming soon
to rescue us.
765
01:08:25,768 --> 01:08:27,520
The yagé brew arrived.
766
01:08:28,855 --> 01:08:30,732
This was our last tool to try.
767
01:08:33,109 --> 01:08:36,946
If the yagé doesn't work,
then we'll pack up and leave.
768
01:08:39,365 --> 01:08:41,200
Brothers, are you ready?
769
01:08:41,284 --> 01:08:44,162
Yes. We’re ready.
770
01:08:45,038 --> 01:08:46,372
Here we are, partners.
771
01:08:47,373 --> 01:08:48,958
Mm-hmm.
772
01:08:49,042 --> 01:08:54,297
- One person will guide us. Our shaman.
- Mm-hmm.
773
01:08:54,464 --> 01:08:58,468
Mm-hmm.
774
01:08:58,551 --> 01:09:01,554
We ask of you Father Creator
775
01:09:02,597 --> 01:09:06,392
to deliver what we’ve been looking for.
776
01:09:10,355 --> 01:09:14,400
The time had come.
Manuel must take the yagé
777
01:09:14,942 --> 01:09:17,737
so that he understands
why this tragedy happened.
778
01:09:22,158 --> 01:09:23,659
I was caught off-guard.
779
01:09:25,870 --> 01:09:27,121
I was worried.
780
01:09:38,591 --> 01:09:41,677
A little after 01:00 a.m.,
Manuel drinks it.
781
01:09:47,058 --> 01:09:51,854
With yagé, you leave your body
and go to another dimension
782
01:09:51,938 --> 01:09:53,439
to find the creator.
783
01:09:57,318 --> 01:10:01,155
With yagé,
nothing is impossible.
784
01:10:03,574 --> 01:10:05,368
You'll always receive an answer.
785
01:10:07,787 --> 01:10:10,415
But the one thing is you have to be pure.
786
01:10:16,796 --> 01:10:19,132
Before long,
Manuel was snoring.
787
01:10:21,175 --> 01:10:25,138
This guy isn't under its influence.
This guy is sleeping.
788
01:10:31,644 --> 01:10:34,021
Twenty minutes later,
he woke up.
789
01:10:35,940 --> 01:10:39,444
Rubio and I just looked over
at each other for a second.
790
01:10:41,529 --> 01:10:42,697
"What happened here?"
791
01:10:43,406 --> 01:10:44,657
We were all shocked.
792
01:10:58,671 --> 01:11:01,007
Just as I was about to reach the kids,
793
01:11:01,090 --> 01:11:03,634
the Duende attacked me
and blocked my path.
794
01:11:09,474 --> 01:11:10,767
When tragedy strikes,
795
01:11:10,850 --> 01:11:13,519
sometimes you're compelled
to tell a story,
796
01:11:13,770 --> 01:11:15,521
the story of your life.
797
01:11:16,814 --> 01:11:19,484
If you lie, there are consequences.
798
01:11:25,031 --> 01:11:27,909
After Manuel hit my sister
with the machete,
799
01:11:28,868 --> 01:11:31,454
she arrived at our house all bruised.
800
01:11:32,038 --> 01:11:35,333
"Sister, don't worry. We're here for you."
801
01:11:38,169 --> 01:11:39,879
My sister Magdalena said,
802
01:11:40,296 --> 01:11:43,049
"All right, I have to move on
with my life.
803
01:11:44,509 --> 01:11:48,054
{\an8}"I'm just going to live here
and send Lesly to school.
804
01:11:49,096 --> 01:11:50,556
{\an8}"And I'm going to get a job."
805
01:11:51,682 --> 01:11:54,018
I said, "Where is Manuel right now?"
806
01:11:55,311 --> 01:11:57,647
She said, "Manuel went to Bogotá."
807
01:12:00,107 --> 01:12:02,819
I left because of the issue
with the guerilla,
808
01:12:03,694 --> 01:12:08,324
but I stayed in touch with Magdalena.
In fact, I left her a letter.
809
01:12:12,370 --> 01:12:17,708
Manuel had left a bag behind,
and Magdalena found a note inside the bag.
810
01:12:21,754 --> 01:12:23,381
She read it over and over.
811
01:12:24,757 --> 01:12:27,802
And then it's like she completely changed.
812
01:12:28,636 --> 01:12:30,972
She didn't eat, she didn't sleep.
813
01:12:34,976 --> 01:12:37,812
She said, "Yeri, I think I'm leaving."
814
01:12:38,229 --> 01:12:39,605
I said, "Where to?"
815
01:12:39,689 --> 01:12:44,193
She goes, "To the city.
Manuel has a beautiful house.
816
01:12:44,735 --> 01:12:47,989
"We can live there.
My kids will go to school."
817
01:12:49,490 --> 01:12:53,870
"Magdalena, please. These are all lies.
I don't want you to go."
818
01:12:56,289 --> 01:12:57,623
I called Manuel.
819
01:12:57,874 --> 01:12:59,750
"Tell me the truth.
Do you love my sister?"
820
01:13:01,168 --> 01:13:02,336
"I don't know.
821
01:13:03,462 --> 01:13:09,176
"But Magdalena's love is overwhelming.
She'll never leave me. Never."
822
01:13:11,929 --> 01:13:13,931
A few days later, we went out.
823
01:13:15,057 --> 01:13:16,976
And Magdalena stayed back at the house.
824
01:13:19,270 --> 01:13:22,815
When we returned, there was no one there.
825
01:13:24,108 --> 01:13:25,610
No one in the house.
826
01:13:27,403 --> 01:13:29,155
Just a mess left behind.
827
01:13:33,618 --> 01:13:35,286
Such a horrible man.
828
01:13:37,997 --> 01:13:40,791
She said
that she can't stay away from him.
829
01:13:42,585 --> 01:13:45,546
I can't blame her.
I'm in a similar situation.
830
01:13:46,797 --> 01:13:50,176
When my husband goes out
and ends up drinking too much,
831
01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:51,761
he beats me.
832
01:13:54,972 --> 01:13:56,933
Maybe that happens to a lot of women.
833
01:13:57,308 --> 01:14:00,311
If you love that person,
you may fall into the same trap.
834
01:14:03,731 --> 01:14:06,067
Magdalena couldn't wait to leave.
835
01:14:07,443 --> 01:14:09,654
Lesly said,
"Mom, I don't want to go.
836
01:14:09,737 --> 01:14:12,531
"You go alone.
I'll stay here with my grandma."
837
01:14:13,115 --> 01:14:17,078
Magdalena pulled her by her hair
and said, "We're going!"
838
01:14:17,787 --> 01:14:19,497
What happened to Magdalena?
839
01:14:20,081 --> 01:14:23,793
I don't know. Maybe this guy
brainwashed her or something.
840
01:14:24,502 --> 01:14:26,170
I think he bewitched her.
841
01:14:28,506 --> 01:14:30,883
At 06:00 a.m., they got on the plane.
842
01:14:32,426 --> 01:14:33,928
Who is to blame here?
843
01:14:37,014 --> 01:14:40,726
That man is to blame because of his lies.
844
01:14:52,405 --> 01:14:54,281
The guys were quiet.
They were depressed.
845
01:14:55,574 --> 01:14:59,453
I told them, "Don't worry.
We still have the last dose of yagé."
846
01:15:07,795 --> 01:15:09,088
At 03:00 a.m., I took it.
847
01:15:33,738 --> 01:15:37,283
At night, Soleiny was frightened
848
01:15:38,034 --> 01:15:42,204
when animals came close to sniff at us.
849
01:15:47,251 --> 01:15:48,711
I used the flashlight.
850
01:15:49,545 --> 01:15:53,382
When I shined the light,
the animals would run away.
851
01:16:01,348 --> 01:16:02,516
I had a dream.
852
01:16:03,976 --> 01:16:05,728
It was about Duendes.
853
01:16:08,481 --> 01:16:09,982
They looked like people.
854
01:16:13,194 --> 01:16:16,822
- They completely surrounded us.
855
01:16:18,074 --> 01:16:20,826
I couldn't understand
anything they were saying.
856
01:16:29,627 --> 01:16:33,172
I felt that no one
was ever going to find us out here.
857
01:16:34,006 --> 01:16:37,802
I thought we would be stuck here
for the rest of our lives.
858
01:16:55,319 --> 01:16:59,281
After taking the yagé,
I fought with the Duende.
859
01:17:01,492 --> 01:17:03,035
He squeezed me like this.
860
01:17:04,411 --> 01:17:05,454
I couldn't breathe.
861
01:17:07,081 --> 01:17:09,750
He grabbed me and carried me up a tree.
862
01:17:11,001 --> 01:17:12,837
He spun me around like this.
863
01:17:13,921 --> 01:17:16,632
Then, like an iguana,
I went down to the ground.
864
01:17:18,634 --> 01:17:22,429
I yelled at the Duende.
"I need you to give me the kids.
865
01:17:22,763 --> 01:17:24,306
"These children are innocent.
866
01:17:26,142 --> 01:17:27,852
"The family wants them back."
867
01:17:30,187 --> 01:17:33,149
The Duende told me,
"I've been protecting the children.
868
01:17:34,525 --> 01:17:35,526
"I'll give them to you.
869
01:17:36,986 --> 01:17:39,989
"But only if you take care of them.
870
01:17:41,782 --> 01:17:44,285
"If you don't, beware the consequences."
871
01:17:47,621 --> 01:17:50,749
He left and said, "Go up the hill.
There is a platanillo tree.
872
01:17:51,750 --> 01:17:52,877
"There you will find what you need."
873
01:17:54,712 --> 01:17:55,880
Search over there.
874
01:17:59,133 --> 01:18:04,930
Rubio said, "No matter what,
this is the last time we search.
875
01:18:06,432 --> 01:18:09,268
"You go that way,
you go this way, you go that way."
876
01:18:09,852 --> 01:18:12,104
"Around 03:00 p.m.,
we'll all meet back here."
877
01:18:13,606 --> 01:18:16,358
He said,
"You are going to find them." "Okay."
878
01:18:17,818 --> 01:18:20,654
I'm very tired. Really messed up.
879
01:18:21,906 --> 01:18:23,282
He left and disappeared.
880
01:18:24,950 --> 01:18:26,493
We never saw him again.
881
01:18:32,333 --> 01:18:35,002
- Lesly!
- Lesly!
882
01:18:35,753 --> 01:18:37,254
Lesly!
883
01:18:38,714 --> 01:18:41,217
Hours pass,
and it's already 02:00 p.m.,
884
01:18:42,718 --> 01:18:44,720
and we're really far away,
885
01:18:46,972 --> 01:18:49,433
like, nine kilometers from our camp.
886
01:18:54,396 --> 01:18:59,026
My group and I
had already combed the area over there.
887
01:18:59,109 --> 01:19:00,945
We had already searched over here.
888
01:19:01,445 --> 01:19:03,530
Nothing. Nothing.
889
01:19:06,867 --> 01:19:09,161
By this point,
I'm too sick to keep searching.
890
01:19:10,246 --> 01:19:12,873
I can't go on. I'm going back.
891
01:19:13,415 --> 01:19:14,667
Back to the camp.
892
01:19:19,755 --> 01:19:22,716
But our group decides
to keep walking and searching.
893
01:19:25,678 --> 01:19:27,596
We started to go up a hill.
894
01:19:28,055 --> 01:19:30,224
Hey, come here!
895
01:19:32,476 --> 01:19:34,270
We quickly headed over.
896
01:19:37,606 --> 01:19:38,732
"Oh, brother."
897
01:19:42,152 --> 01:19:43,237
A morrocoy.
898
01:19:44,738 --> 01:19:45,990
A tortoise.
899
01:19:48,742 --> 01:19:52,997
The elders say that if you threaten it,
your wish will be granted.
900
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,919
I told it,
"You're going to give me the children.
901
01:20:00,087 --> 01:20:02,089
"If you don't give me the children,
902
01:20:02,965 --> 01:20:07,344
"the first thing I'll eat is your liver,
because that's my favorite.
903
01:20:08,846 --> 01:20:10,931
"Nicolas will drink your blood."
904
01:20:14,810 --> 01:20:16,603
Now we have dinner for sure.
905
01:20:35,664 --> 01:20:37,291
We all stand still.
906
01:20:43,255 --> 01:20:46,508
I hear some voices
and footsteps close by.
907
01:20:47,968 --> 01:20:49,261
But I see nothing.
908
01:20:50,387 --> 01:20:53,849
- Nothing at all.
- Lesly, Tien!
909
01:20:55,351 --> 01:20:59,229
I walk with my head tilted
towards the sound.
910
01:21:03,650 --> 01:21:04,985
I raise my head...
911
01:21:07,446 --> 01:21:09,782
and thank God the children are there.
912
01:21:09,948 --> 01:21:11,617
We found the children!
913
01:21:11,700 --> 01:21:13,077
We found the children!
914
01:21:13,160 --> 01:21:16,747
Thank God!
We found the children!
915
01:21:17,498 --> 01:21:20,959
God has blessed us
for the faith we have in Him. Mm-hmm.
916
01:21:27,091 --> 01:21:29,635
I felt like I was going to faint.
917
01:21:30,594 --> 01:21:32,638
It was from all the emotion.
918
01:21:35,974 --> 01:21:38,894
"I'm finally getting out of the jungle."
919
01:21:41,397 --> 01:21:43,440
We were happy to find them alive.
920
01:21:46,235 --> 01:21:48,821
Two more days
and they would have died one by one.
921
01:21:51,490 --> 01:21:53,367
The boy says, "I'm hungry.
922
01:21:54,451 --> 01:21:57,246
"I want farinha with chorizo."
923
01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:02,543
"We want to eat tamales.
We want to eat rice pudding."
924
01:22:03,043 --> 01:22:05,963
Well, let's give them some food,
only a little bit.
925
01:22:08,090 --> 01:22:10,175
Otherwise, it might make them sick.
926
01:22:17,433 --> 01:22:21,645
Then we remembered to release the tortoise
because it fulfilled the wish.
927
01:22:23,689 --> 01:22:25,482
"Thank you for granting our wish.
928
01:22:26,692 --> 01:22:27,860
"You can go."
929
01:22:33,740 --> 01:22:36,410
"Brother, let's go. It's getting dark."
930
01:22:39,538 --> 01:22:43,792
To get back to camp,
it took almost three hours.
931
01:22:47,838 --> 01:22:50,174
And the kids are on the verge of dying.
932
01:22:56,346 --> 01:22:59,099
{\an8}I was shocked.
"Son of a gun, we found them."
933
01:23:01,477 --> 01:23:04,730
I asked Lesly, "Do you know
how long you've been missing?"
934
01:23:06,440 --> 01:23:08,650
She says, "About eight or ten days."
935
01:23:09,818 --> 01:23:11,487
It's actually been 40 days.
936
01:23:11,820 --> 01:23:14,740
She's not 100% aware
of what she's talking about.
937
01:23:20,204 --> 01:23:23,040
We need to evacuate them
if they're going to survive.
938
01:23:26,001 --> 01:23:28,670
As rescue pilots, we sometimes get a call.
939
01:23:29,296 --> 01:23:32,257
If they say "reaction," don't question it.
940
01:23:32,382 --> 01:23:33,383
Run.
941
01:23:39,056 --> 01:23:45,145
When I heard the baby, Cristin...
942
01:23:46,939 --> 01:23:48,440
My joy was overwhelming.
943
01:23:56,448 --> 01:23:58,242
Tien stared up at me,
944
01:23:58,575 --> 01:24:01,078
It was utterly shattering
to see him like that.
945
01:24:05,165 --> 01:24:07,501
I said hello to Lesly and Soleiny.
946
01:24:10,629 --> 01:24:11,630
It was...
947
01:24:14,174 --> 01:24:18,554
Lesly, we're going to leave soon.
Soleiny, we're leaving soon.
948
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:24,685
I went to them.
949
01:24:24,768 --> 01:24:28,480
The first thing I do
is hug the 13-year-old girl,
950
01:24:29,898 --> 01:24:31,650
and greet the nine-year-old girl.
951
01:24:33,443 --> 01:24:36,655
Then I took my son
and daughter and I just held them.
952
01:24:46,957 --> 01:24:48,625
As we approached the location,
953
01:24:50,794 --> 01:24:54,089
it's so dark,
the jungle turned into a black carpet.
954
01:24:57,426 --> 01:25:01,888
The cloud cover was so thick,
the separation between sky and earth
955
01:25:02,389 --> 01:25:06,310
was difficult to... to differentiate.
956
01:25:08,020 --> 01:25:12,566
They were going to evacuate the children.
I said, "Not without me."
957
01:25:12,983 --> 01:25:15,027
I told Manuel, "You can't go.
958
01:25:17,195 --> 01:25:19,406
"Please don't go with the kids.
959
01:25:20,991 --> 01:25:22,326
"You'll traumatize them."
960
01:25:24,202 --> 01:25:26,830
"The kids are coming with me."
961
01:25:31,918 --> 01:25:36,632
I didn't want to live
with my stepfather again.
962
01:25:38,675 --> 01:25:39,760
I was afraid.
963
01:25:45,599 --> 01:25:50,979
{\an8}We start the first extraction with Manuel,
and the baby, Cristin.
964
01:26:04,034 --> 01:26:07,371
They were going like this,
like a swing, back and forth.
965
01:26:08,330 --> 01:26:10,707
I felt disoriented, confused.
966
01:26:11,625 --> 01:26:16,004
A shadow appeared
and started draining the life out of me.
967
01:26:16,338 --> 01:26:18,173
That spirit was strangling me.
968
01:26:19,424 --> 01:26:21,259
It starts swinging
towards the trees.
969
01:26:21,343 --> 01:26:23,261
It moves faster and faster.
970
01:26:25,013 --> 01:26:28,558
My crew is yelling,
"Stop moving or we're going to crash."
971
01:26:29,142 --> 01:26:30,811
"God, don't let me hit a tree."
972
01:26:43,156 --> 01:26:46,910
I strap in Soleiny and Tien,
and I went up with the two of them.
973
01:26:55,293 --> 01:26:57,462
It was as if there was an energy
974
01:26:57,546 --> 01:27:00,048
that was trying to impede us
from succeeding.
975
01:27:00,716 --> 01:27:06,805
I felt as if the helicopter
was somehow being pulled.
976
01:27:07,597 --> 01:27:10,392
It required more power
to be able to handle it.
977
01:27:11,393 --> 01:27:15,731
"This doesn't feel right."
978
01:27:18,650 --> 01:27:20,235
Only Lesly remained.
979
01:27:23,864 --> 01:27:27,033
The rope pulls me up,
and I'm so scared.
980
01:27:27,951 --> 01:27:31,496
Am I really going up in an airplane again?
981
01:27:43,467 --> 01:27:47,095
Children on board,
father on board, rescuers on board.
982
01:27:47,596 --> 01:27:51,224
"Guys, let's get out of here quickly
before this jungle swallows us."
983
01:28:39,064 --> 01:28:41,775
{\an8}Tell me,
what was the most difficult day?
984
01:28:45,987 --> 01:28:48,490
Cristin was crying and crying.
985
01:28:48,657 --> 01:28:52,577
I thought,
"I want to leave my siblings behind
986
01:28:52,661 --> 01:28:55,372
"and go alone, leave Cristin."
987
01:28:57,123 --> 01:28:59,167
And I took a deep breath,
988
01:29:00,210 --> 01:29:03,088
and then I thought
about leaving my siblings.
989
01:29:04,881 --> 01:29:07,175
But I said, "No."
990
01:29:08,510 --> 01:29:11,179
So, I decided to stay there with them.
991
01:29:13,765 --> 01:29:15,267
That must have been
very difficult.
992
01:29:15,392 --> 01:29:16,434
Yes.
993
01:29:20,313 --> 01:29:22,899
I was in an accident like this, see?
994
01:29:24,025 --> 01:29:25,026
Like this.
995
01:29:26,278 --> 01:29:27,821
And my mom died.
996
01:29:30,365 --> 01:29:32,659
And Lesly was protecting us.
997
01:29:35,036 --> 01:29:39,708
Look at all that you went through
and all you did to save your siblings,
998
01:29:40,750 --> 01:29:41,918
to survive.
999
01:29:50,468 --> 01:29:53,054
"People say
you're a miracle," I told her.
1000
01:29:53,930 --> 01:29:55,515
"Why, Auntie?" she asked.
1001
01:29:57,350 --> 01:30:00,770
"Because you fell from the sky
and survived for 40 days.
1002
01:30:00,979 --> 01:30:01,980
"No one does that."
1003
01:30:06,860 --> 01:30:10,530
I'm going to win!
Wait! Wait for my sisters!
1004
01:30:11,197 --> 01:30:12,240
Come on, hurry!
1005
01:30:12,532 --> 01:30:14,242
Come on!
1006
01:30:17,245 --> 01:30:19,831
I told her, "You are free now.
1007
01:30:21,708 --> 01:30:23,668
"You won't be anybody's slave.
1008
01:30:25,170 --> 01:30:27,797
"You will have a real life.
1009
01:30:28,673 --> 01:30:31,801
"Think of it as a movie,
and this is the end of the movie."
1010
01:31:10,256 --> 01:31:14,511
{\an8}
1011
01:31:25,897 --> 01:31:29,234
{\an8}
1012
01:31:48,169 --> 01:31:53,174
This search in the Amazon jungle
needs to start a phase of understanding
1013
01:31:53,466 --> 01:31:56,344
between the state
and the indigenous communities,
1014
01:31:57,303 --> 01:32:00,557
the majority of whom
have been excluded for centuries.
1015
01:32:01,266 --> 01:32:05,145
{\an8}
1016
01:32:46,144 --> 01:32:49,856
{\an8}