"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.

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.

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

If true, this is a great demonstration of the advice to stay put when lost in the wilderness.