Satellite imagery, thousands of leaflets dropped from helicopters and prayers from indigenous peoples are part of the rescue teams’ strategy to find four children lost 22 days ago in the Colombian Amazon, the Presidency said Monday (22).

Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia, says that the original communities “carry out spiritual processes that consist of talking to the forest and asking it to speak” – Photo: Reproduction / Agência Brasil

Using satellite technology, authorities are trying to determine the path of children aged 13, 9 and 4, as well as an 11-month-old baby after the May 1 plane crash.

Brothers of the Huitoto ethnic group disappeared between the departments (states) of Caqueta and Guaviare, in the south of the country, after an accident that killed their mother, pilot and local leader.

More than 160 soldiers are looking for children by land and air. And over the weekend, a group of indigenous people from the seven indigenous peoples of the country, accustomed to wandering through the forest, joined the search.

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According to the president, the original communities “carry out spiritual processes that consist of talking to the forest and asking it to speak” and helping them find minors.

The Air Force, for its part, dropped 10,000 leaflets from helicopters with instructions in both Spanish and native language on how to contact the authorities if you have any information.

The military suspects that children are wandering around an area of ​​about 323 square kilometers. Over the weekend, 100 survival kits with food and water were dropped from planes.

During the searches, a trace, things, an impromptu shelter and a bitten fruit were found. Family members claim that the older brother moves well in the jungle, so they consider him alive.

President Gustavo Petro even said on Wednesday (17) that the minors were found alive, but he returned the next day and apologized for the false information.