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Pilot among 3 adults killed when Cessna 206 aircraft crashed May 1
Thomson Reuters · Posted: Jun 09, 2023 7:46 PM CDT | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago
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Soldiers attend to children that were rescued in the jungles of Caqueta, Colombia, on Friday. (Colombian Military Forces/Reuters)
Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the south of the country more than five weeks after the plane they were travelling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said on Friday.
The children were rescued by the military near the border between Colombia's Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to where the small plane had crashed.
The plane — a Cessna 206 — was carrying seven people on a route between Araracuara, in Amazonas province, and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare province, when it issued a mayday alert due to engine failure in the early hours of May 1.
Three adults, including the pilot, died as a result of the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane. The four children, aged 13, nine and four, as well as an 11-month-old baby, survived the impact.
Photos shared by Colombia's military showed a group of soldiers with the four children in the middle of the jungle.
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A soldier stands next to the wreckage of a plane in the jungle of Caqueta, Colombia, on May 19. (Colombian Military Forces/Reuters)
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Four children found alive after being lost in Colombian jungle for 40 days
Graeme Massie
Los Angeles
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In this handout picture released by the Colombian Presidency members the Army pose four Indigenous children after spending more than a month lost in the Colombian Amazon rainforest following a small plane crash, in Colombia's Guaviare jungle on June 9, 2023
In this handout picture released by the Colombian Presidency members the Army pose four Indigenous children after spending more than a month lost in the Colombian Amazon rainforest following a small plane crash, in Colombia's Guaviare jungle on June 9, 2023
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Four children who survived a plane crash have been found alive after 40 days lost in a Colombian jungle, according to the country’s president.
Gustavo Petro announced that the four siblings who disappeared after a plane they were on went down in the Amazon rainforest had survived their ordeal and were receiving medical treatment.
“A joy for the whole country! The 4 children who were lost 40 days ago in the Colombian jungle appeared alive,” Mr Petro tweeted on Friday.
The president said the youngsters, who were found alone, are an “example of survival” and predicted their saga “will remain in history.”
The siblings - 13-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucutuy, nine-year-old Soleiny Jacobombaire Mucutuy, four-year-old Tien Noriel Ronoque Mucutuy and 11-month-old Cristin Neriman Ranoque Mucutuy - were travelling in a Cessna 206 plane when it crashed on 1 May near the Guaviare province.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colombia-jungle-lost-children-found-b2355002.html
Cuba slams Chinese spy base allegations
ROGER MCKENZIE
FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2023
Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio
CUBA’S Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio has has condemned a report by the Wall Street Journal claiming there is an agreement between China and Cuba for the installation of a special Chinese base in the country to spy on the United States.
Speaking on Thursday, Mr de Cossio pointed out that Cuba is a signatory of the Community of Latin American & Caribbean States’ 2014 “zone of peace” declaration.
He said: “By virtue of it, we reject any foreign military presence in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
Mr de Cossio labelled the US accusation mendacious and unfounded, and said that “they are all fallacies promoted with the perfidious intention of justifying the unprecedented intensification of the blockade, destabilisation and aggression towards Cuba and deceiving public opinion in the United States and the world.”
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Cuban, US Governments Deny Secret Chinese Spy Base in Cuba
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The Cuban and U.S. governments have both denied a Wall Street Journal report saying Havana and Beijing agreed to establish a Chinese electronic eavesdropping facility in Cuba, some 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Florida.
If true, a spy base with such proximity to several U.S. military bases in the southeastern region of the country would allow Beijing to collect electronic communications and monitor ship traffic, the newspaper said.
The agreement was reached in principle, The Wall Street Journal said, in exchange for “several billion dollars” for the cash-strapped Latin American country.
Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez De Cossio said the report was a U.S. fabrication, describing it as “totally mendacious and unfounded.”
He stressed his country rejects all foreign military presence in Latin America, including the bases maintained in the region by the United States.
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https://international.thenewslens.com/article/186145
Pentagon: Media Reports on China Spy Station in Cuba Are 'Not Accurate'
June 08, 2023 3:52 PM
UPDATE June 08, 2023 10:10 PM
Ken Bredemeier
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The Pentagon says reports that China and Cuba have reached a secret pact allowing Beijing to build an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island that is 160 kilometers from the United States are "not accurate."
"I can tell you, based on the information that we have, that that is not accurate - that we are not aware of China and Cuba developing any type of spy station," Brigadier General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon's press secretary, told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday.
According to the reports, which first appeared in The Wall Street Journal citing unnamed intelligence officials, China had agreed to pay financially hard-pressed Cuba several billion dollars for the spy facility, which would allow China to collect electronic communications from throughout the southeastern United States, where numerous military bases are located.
Ryder added that the Pentagon was not aware of China setting up any type of military base in Cuba or elsewhere in the region. However, he cautioned that the relationship between Cuba and China is something that the Pentagon monitors, along with any type of "coercive activity or belligerent activity" by China in the Western Hemisphere.
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Colombia charges mining executives over terrorist financing
Drummond claims charges based on human rights lawyers' conspiracy
by Adriaan Alsema June 1, 2023
The Colombia director of US mining corporation Drummond has been charged for allegedly funding a paramilitary group that assassinated two labor union leaders in 2001.
Drummond Colombia boss Jose Miguel Linares and his predecessor Augusto Jimenez will have to respond to conspiracy charges.
The prosecution claims the two mining executives asked the Northern Bloc of the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC to provide “security” around the US company’s mines in the Cesar province.
Between 1996 and 2001, Linares and Jimenez allegedly inflated the value of a contract with a food provider to pay the illegal armed group that was deemed a terrorist organization by the US Government in 2002.
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These criminal investigations are of major importance to the clarification of alleged links between foreign companies and death squads in Colombia, which implicates major foreign investors like Chiquita and Glencore.
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https://colombiareports.com/colombia-charges-mining-executives-over-terrorist-financing/
Texas to Deploy Marine Barrier in the Rio Grande to Block New Surge of Immigrants
By Todd Bensman on June 8, 2023
AUSTIN, Texas – In the latest in his series of state-level immigration-control initiatives, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has okayed an unusual new tool: a floating marine barrier to be deployed in the Rio Grande, three sources with direct knowledge confirmed to the Center for Immigration Studies.
The first 1,000 feet of floating barrier, consisting of large rotating buoys strung tightly together on thick steel cable, will be rolled out on a highly trafficked stretch of the Rio Grande between Piedras Negras, Mexico, and Eagle Pass, Texas, where a rising torrent of immigrant family groups have been crossing to turn themselves in since the end of Title 42 pandemic instant expulsions May 12, the sources said. Immigrants would have difficulty crossing over the buoys because they would rotate backward toward immigrants attempting to climb over them.
Texas has already purchased lengths of barrier from Cochrane, a corporation that specializes in marine barriers most often for navies. Texas will deploy its first thousand feet in June or early July, two sources said.
If it proves effective, Texas will roll out more in immigration hot spots on the Rio Grande.
Such a move comes with some political risk as physical barriers to illegal immigration such as high walls reliably draw criticism and controversy from illegal immigration advocates – and hostile media attention if immigrants are injured attempting to defeat them.
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https://cis.org/Bensman/Texas-Deploy-Marine-Barrier-Rio-Grande-Block-New-Surge-Immigrants
Fury in France after 40 ancient standing stones erected by prehistoric humans 7,000 years ago near f
Fury in France after 40 ancient standing stones erected by prehistoric humans 7,000 years ago near famed Carnac archaeological site are destroyed to make way for a DIY storeBy CHRISTIAN OLIVER
PUBLISHED: 08:28 EDT, 8 June 2023 | UPDATED: 08:32 EDT, 8 June 2023
Fury has erupted in France after dozens of seven-thousand-year-old standing stones erected by prehistoric humans were destroyed to make way for a DIY store.
Some 37 stones standing between half-a-metre and a metre were each destroyed by the development of the large construction for a Mr. Bricolage outlet in Carnac, in Brittany, northwest France.
According to local amateur archaeologist Christian Obeltz, the site had been on France's National Archeological map since 2015, as well as being on the town's official list of local megaliths.
They say the site was also going to be submitted to France's Ministry of Culture with a view to listing it as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Carnac is famous for its ancient menhir - heavy raised standing stones - which spread across three alignments: Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan.
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The mystery of France's 'Stonehenge'
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By Hugh Tucker
15th September 2022
Built 1,000 years before the famed English site, the Alignements de Carnac's 3,000 perfectly aligned stones continue to baffle historians.
Not far from the wide, sun-drenched beaches of Carnac in France's north-western Brittany region, I stood and looked out at the endless rows of standing stones that make up the Alignements de Carnac (Carnac Alignments). The tall, roughly hewn stones were divided into symmetrical, evenly spaced columns that disappeared into the distance, and I could see how the local legend of Saint Cornély had arisen.
Supposedly, Saint Cornély (the patron saint of cattle), pursued by a legion of Roman soldiers and finding no other means of escape, had hidden in the ear of an ox and turned the legionnaires to stone. Needless to say, this isn't the true origin of the Alignments. Aside from the unlikely transfiguration, the standing stones predate the Roman Empire by at least 3,000 years. But in a superstitious time, this was probably a plausible explanation for a mystery that baffles experts to this day.
Stretching 4km along the coast of Brittany and consisting of more than 3,000 menhirs (man-made, often tapered, stones erected in prehistoric times across Western Europe – not unlike those Obelix from the Asterix comics made a career sculpting and delivering), the Carnac Alignments represent the largest group of man-made standing stones in the world. Like Stonehenge, their purpose, what they represent and who placed them are mysteries shrouded in theory and legend. Yet, their place as one of the most important sites of European prehistory is undisputed.
Radiocarbon dating has determined that the granite menhirs were erected by a Neolithic community around 6,000 years ago (about 1,000 years before Stonehenge). The stones range in size from 0.5m tall to the hulking Giant of Manio, which soars 6m, with an average-sized menhir weighing between five and 10 tonnes. They were generally quarried from the bedrock that lies close to the surface of the site and hauled and erected using pulleys and brute strength. Given the superhuman effort needed to create them, the Alignments would have held enormous significance, but the site's administrator, Olivier Agogué, believes that true purpose of the Alignments will likely remain unknown.
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https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220914-carnac-alignments-brittanys-mysterious-standing-stones
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10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE CARNAC STANDING STONES
Most people have pondered the mysterious stones of Stonehenge, but the Carnac standing stones in Brittany, France, may be even more fascinating. This UNESCO World Heritage site is comprised of thousands of granite stones perfectly aligned over several kilometres, making it the largest megalithic site in the world. If you haven’t had a chance to visit yet, you should be adding this site to your bucket list and taking advantage of the online virtual tour.
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http://www.bisousdescaribous.com/2021/04/10-interesting-facts-about-carnac.html
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Aztec and Maya civilizations are household names - but it's the Olmecs who are the 'mother culture'
Aztec and Maya civilizations are household names – but it’s the Olmecs who are the ‘mother culture’ of ancient MesoamericaPublished: June 7, 2023 8.24am EDT
An extremely important 1-ton sculpture, sometimes referred to by archaeologists as an “Earth Monster” or Monument 9, was repatriated to Mexico from a private collection in Colorado in May 2023, according to an announcement from Mexico’s Consul General in New York. The monument features the head of a front-facing creature with a gaping mouth: a supernatural being that represented the living, animate earth to an ancient culture in Central America and Mexico.
This sculpture was reportedly found at the base of a hill at Chalcatzingo, an archaeological site some 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of Mexico City, and dates to roughly 600 B.C. Chalcatzingo is closely related to Olmec culture, one of the earliest in ancient Mesoamerica.
I am an archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerica: an area that encompassed present-day southern Mexico, parts of Costa Rica and all of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. I have visited Chalcatzingo many times while researching the development of this rich cultural region.
Colorado Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera, left, is shown a photograph of Monument 9 before it was returned to Mexico. AP Photo/David Zalubowski
Many scholars regard the Olmec as the “mother culture” of ancient Mesoamerica, a civilization where particular types of monumental architecture, sculpture and gods originated. Among the later Maya, for example, the gods of wind, rain and corn – or more precisely, maize – are clearly derived from the earlier Olmec culture.
Elaborate art
The Olmec heartland was in what are now the Mexican states of Tabasco and southern Veracruz, along the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Much of their influence was based on economic wealth from corn.
Of Olmec art that has survived the centuries, their carved heads are particularly striking and well known. By 1000 B.C., Olmec sculptors at San Lorenzo, Mexico, had fashioned no fewer than 10 colossal heads, all over 6 feet high. Archaeologists believe these are individualized portraits of rulers, each with their own specific headdress: depictions of specific people, which is quite rare in New World art.
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https://theconversation.com/aztec-and-maya-civilizations-are-household-names-but-its-the-olmecs-who-are-the-mother-culture-of-ancient-mesoamerica-206380
Activist: Kidnapping, killings of call center workers in Mexico has been happening for years
A missing-persons activist says call center workers have been going missing in Mexico since at least 2017
By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press
June 7, 2023, 3:49 PM
MEXICO CITY -- A missing-persons activist in western Mexico said Wednesday that call center workers have been going missing in Mexico since at least 2017, and that authorities have done little to solve the cases.
Activist Hector Flores says authorities’ failure to investigate those disappearances helped set the stage for what authorities believe was a mass kidnap-killing of eight young call center employees last month.
The violent Jalisco cartel operates call centers in the western state of the same name; the centers target Americans in timeshare frauds. The cartel is suspected of killing people who try to quit working at these call centers.
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A U.S. official confirmed that authorities suspect that the eight workers kidnapped in mid-May — and whose bodies were identified Tuesday — had been working at cartel-run call center, that they were targeted when they tried to leave the jobs and that similar slayings may have happened previously. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
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https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/activist-kidnapping-killings-call-center-workers-mexico-happening-99913710
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