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Re:Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane c... by Solvency on Saturday June 10, 2023 @10:12AM (#36270623)
I was vaguely tracking this through Reddit for a while, and I thought the consensus was that they falsely claimed they found the children and it turned out to be a big political lie. Glad to hear it finally happened.
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Re:Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane c... by jeromegv on Saturday June 10, 2023 @10:25AM (#36270740)
Who’s they? Surely if politicians claimed they found them, I’d be in the news?
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Re:Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane c... by Kalkaline on Saturday June 10, 2023 @10:35AM (#36270827)
"The president came under criticism last month when a tweet published on his account mistakenly announced that the children had been found.

He erased the tweet the next day saying that the information - which his office had been given by Colombia's child welfare agency - could not be confirmed." quote from the article this thread is about.

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Re:Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane c... by meowzor on Saturday June 10, 2023 @10:35AM (#36270823)
They had claimed they were found before this, but they retracted it. This time they did find them.

Edit: I believe the president is the one that tweeted it the first time, and he retracted.

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Re:Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane c... by flashback2199 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @10:53AM (#36271029)
From reading this article, it sounded like they found the general area where they were, but it took a while to actually find them because they kept moving
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Re:Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane c... by chrisbrandow on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:21PM (#36272506)
If true, this is a great demonstration of the advice to stay put when lost in the wilderness.
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Re:Four children found alive in Amazon 40 days after plane c... by karaterobot on Saturday June 10, 2023 @11:02AM (#36271103)
There's another article linked at the bottom of that article that talks about how the president had mistakenly claimed they'd been found a month ago, and had to retract it. Maybe that's what you're remembering.
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