‘Miracle’: Four Children Found Alive 40 Days After Plane Crash In Remote Jungle

Four children who were missing after a plane crash in Colombia were found alive and rescued after 40 days alone. 

The children who ranged in age from just 11 months to 13 years old were found in a remote area of the Amazon jungle in Colombia after surviving storms and avoiding dangerous animals and rebel soldiers. A plane carrying the children, their mother, and two other adults had crashed on May 1, killing everyone but the children. 

“They’ve given us an example of total survival that will go down in history,” said Colombian President Gustavo Petro. “A joy for the whole country!”

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“Their learning from indigenous families and their learning of living in the jungle has saved them,” Petro said of the children, who are ethnically Huitoto. “They are children of the jungle and now they are children of Colombia.”

The rescued children were: Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, 13,  Soleiny Jacobombaire Mucutuy, 9, Tien Ranoque Mucutuy, 4, and Cristin Ranoque Mucutuy, just 11 months old. 

Rescuers were sent out after the pilot of the plane issued a call for help due to engine failure. Rescuers found the bodies of the adults, but the children were gone leaving only footprints and other small signs of life. 

For days following the crash, a team combed over a jungle area of about 125 square miles. The team included 150 soldiers and 200 locals, according to the Guardian. 

“This isn’t a needle in a haystack, it’s a tiny flea in a rug because they keep moving,” said Brigadier General Pedro Sanchez “But if, God forbid, they were dead we would have already have found them, because they would be still.”

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Before the children were found, Sanchez said he had a “100% expectation” that his team would be able to rescue the children. 

On Friday, rescuers shouted “Miracle! Miracle! Miracle! Miracle!” as they found footprints that led them to the children. The children were then flown to a hospital for treatment.

“We hope that tomorrow they will be treated at the military hospital,” Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez said after the discovery. 

María Fátima Valencia, the children’s grandmother said she was “going to hug all of them” and “thank everyone.” The family lives in Villavicencio, a city in central Colombia not far from Bogota. 

“I’m going to encourage them, I’m going to push them forward, I need them here,” she said. 

Time To ‘Just Say No’ To George Soros’s Campaign To Legalize Drugs

Eight of the nine 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls presented their vision for America in Iowa last Saturday. Yet, none proposed a policy that could stop or reverse the terrible effects caused by George Soros’s “compassionate” initiative of decriminalizing and legalizing drugs, which began with marijuana.

In his 2004 book “The Bubble of American Supremacy” Soros stated:

When I decided to extend the operations of my Open Society Foundation to the United States, I chose drug policy as one of the first fields of engagement. I felt that drug policy was the area in which the United States was in the greatest danger of violating the principles of open society.”

Following Soros’s lead, marijuana campaigners claim that legalizing the drug is “a necessary social justice initiative,” because, they say, marijuana use led to the mass incarceration of black and brown people. Thus, in addition to changing state laws to allow the use, possession, production, and selling of marijuana, provisions have been added to expunge and vacate low-level marijuana convictions.

Some states, like New Jersey, issued regulations to increase the number of cannabis businesses run by people with prior convictions for marijuana offenses, who were “most harmed by the failed war on drugs,” emphasizing that “social equity” does not necessarily include businesses owned by women, minorities, or disabled veterans.

When Soros debuted on the American domestic political scene in 1993, he was on his way to turning drug use in America — first with marijuana — into the relaxing, joyful “soma” that author Aldous Huxley described inBrave New World.”

To test the American public’s resolve to keep long-held moral values and attitudes, and especially the resilience of his adoptive country’s legal system, he needed an illegal and unwelcomed behavior that could be successfully challenged. He chose laws controlling the use of illicit drugs.

The savvy international currency speculator chose well. He speculated that once marijuana was legalized, many Americans would be willing to use illicit drugs. He was right.

A national Gallup Poll revealed that more than 75% of Americans rejected drug legalization when Soros began his efforts in America. The public viewed the issue through the lens of common sense. It realizes being under the influence of mind-altering substances is the problem, not the drug laws. But Soros’s sponsorship unified the pro-drug groups, created a movement, and, more importantly, gave the drug legalization campaign a veneer of respectability and credibility.

Marijuana, similar to heroin and LSD, is still classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act with “high potential for abuse.” Most opiates, and even fentanyl, are classified under Schedule II, since they are prescribed for symptoms such as pain and anxiety.

The millions of dollars invested in the marijuana lobby have paved the way for the free use of the so-called “medicinal” marijuana products. When it comes to the multidimensional harm caused by marijuana use, the lobbyists, who claim to work in the name of compassion and social justice, are joined by the willful ignorance of politicians. It’s been reported that CBD oil, edibles, and THC gummies are sometimes laced with other addictive drugs, including fentanyl, and are occasionally consumed by young children and pets, with deadly results.

By October 2022, facing no organized opposition to the well-funded, pro-drug propaganda, the marijuana lobby convinced 68% of the public to support the drug’s legalization according to Gallup. As of May 23, 2023, Marijuana Moment, the movement’s major online news and support website was “tracking more than 1,000 cannabis, psychedelics and drug policy bills in state legislatures and Congress this year alone.

But evidence of the harm caused by marijuana is still being swept under the rug. As of May 2023, 37 states have passed laws approving the “medical” use of marijuana, while 23 states made the “recreational” use of marijuana legal. Many states along with the District of Columbia are also working to decriminalizing low-level marijuana possession. Add to that an influx of illegal immigrants and economic challenges, and the remaining states will be tempted to legalize pot in order to find new revenue in the multibillion-dollar marijuana industry.

Proving Soros wrong, again, the illegal marijuana market is growing exponentially, bringing with it expansive marijuana farms damaging the environment, an increase in violent crime, and homelessness.

Unless an aggressive counter-legalization campaign is mounted, marijuana and other dangerous drugs will be legalized in 2024, even if Joe Biden loses in the Presidential election.

The Republican presidential candidates did mention high crime rates and even fentanyl last Saturday, but not one connected the chaos facing the nation to Soros’s drug legalization scheme that aims to dope the population into oblivion.

While Republican candidates referred to Ronald Reagan, not one suggested using Nancy Reagan’s successful campaign slogan of “Just Say No.”

Rachel Ehrenfeld is the director of the American Center for Democracy and author of The Soros Agenda.

The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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