Hello, how are you? Welcome to this podcast, from the Canary Islands to the world.
This episode isn't comfortable. It doesn't intend to be. Today I open pages that many would like to close: dictatorships that crushed voices, crimes hidden under flags, silences that still scream. You will hear fragments of memory and analysis that are unsettling. Because to remember is to resist. Because forgetting is also violence.
Australians don't much like to be reminded of it, but history must always be remembered, and we must confront our darkest past: being a penal colony.
In 1788, a fleet transported the first contingent of British settlers to Australia to populate the country. Most were prisoners from the saturation of London's jails.
Beware! The fact that there was a law didn't make it just. Remember the Nuremberg Laws.
What happened was that there were cases of what we now call minor offenses, which facilitated harsh punishments. Perhaps because they were exemplary, or because the prisons were overcrowded—since conditions in cities like London were becoming unbearable—it was enough to get you sent not just to prison, but to one on the other side of the world.
If this story moved you, share it. If you think there's something that shouldn't be silenced, write to me. We'll talk again in the next episode.
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