Survival in the Amazon Rainforest

The shooting team from Andino College is flying in a private plane to the annual tournament in Uruguay. Encountering an unexpected rainstorm over the Amazon Rainforest, the plane is hit by lightning and crash lands in the jungle. The pilot and the coach are killed in the crash while the five college students that make up the team as well as the one cheer leader, Gracia Reyes, survive. This story tells of their trials and difficulties while surviving in this jungle full of snakes (squeezing anacondas and pythons as well as poisonous coral snakes) and wild beasts (cougars and deadly jaguars, the only animal that can kill the anaconda snake with one bite to the brain with its unusually powerful jaws).
This is also the country of the Unamara Indians, a hostile Indian tribe that uses curare dipped darts in their blow-guns and curare tipped arrows in their bows.
Love finds its way into the deep, dark forest as Gracia Reyes and Diego Martínez want to be married. Being no clergy there, they ask their duly elected leader, senior student, Andrés Castro, to perform the ceremony.
Daily rainstorms keep the jungle humid. It is already hot. A child is born to the young couple in the hothouse of a jungle. They name him Zonas after the Spanish word for the Amazon which is Amazonas.
Later on, Andino Army Colonel Fred Miller is concerned that the bodies of men who dedicated their lives to the youth of Andino are buried deep in the Amazon Rainforest. He receives help from the President of the Republic of Andino and his commanding officer, General Escobar, to put together a team that will go into the Rainforest in three helicopters to retrieve these bodies. He will take as his guides, the two students who crashed landed into the jungle and buried the men, namely, Andrés Castro and Diego Martínez.
The three copters take off early one morning for the three-hour journey. Arriving at the site, they try to land, but arrows from hostile Unamara Indians crash into the side of the copters. The pilots quickly gain altitude. The eight soldiers rappel down to the jungle floor and approach the opening cautiously. They ask for support from the three .50 caliber machine guns mounted in the copters.
The jungle has never heard such noise and power as the .50 caliber bullets rip into the trees and thick jungle growth. The Unamara Indians that are not killed take off running away from the “birds that spit fire.”
After landing in the opening, the three copters stand ready to take off at any moment. The soldiers from the Mortuary Services Office start digging in the spots identified by the two young men, Andrés and Diego, to retrieve the bodies of the adults involved in the plane crash.
Diego gains deserved recognition when one cougar and two jaguars charge into the opening straight for Colonel Miller. Diego repeats his steel stance which he displayed earlier. Using his submachine gun, he shoots a blast of bullets into each of the three charging animals that fall dead. The soldiers and others present have never seen such shooting and such nerve in standing still while the beasts are charging.
The President of the Republic of Andino wants to meet with Fred again. At this meeting, the President informs Fred that the drug cartel is still harassing the Andino Indians, this time with high tech equipment, namely, drones. Fred is given the task of again going into the snake and wild beast infested jungle of the Amazon Rainforest. Fred knows the cartel does not have the technical ability to direct drones, but it does have the money to hire others who have such skills and equipment to control drones. On this mission, his soldiers will carry a Bazooka and a stinger missile launcher. Colonel Miller’s soldiers are not told of the exact mission, but when they hear of the high-tech weapons they are carrying, they know that this mission into the jungle will be unlike anything they have ever experienced before.