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.
Imagine walking along a path where the trees have centuries of history, but the ground is stained with diesel and ash. Since 2012, more than 300 environmental defenders have been murdered in Brazil. They are not just numbers. They are Indigenous leaders, rubber tappers, and farmers who stood between a chainsaw and a sacred tree.
The horror here has names: illegal mining, land grabbing, and predatory agribusiness. It's a monster without a face, but one that shoots from the shadows.
Remember Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old nun. Her "crime" was protecting a reserve. In 2005, while walking along a rural path, she was intercepted by two hitmen. She took out her Bible and began to read the Beatitudes. The response? Six shots at point-blank range.
Or consider Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, who disappeared in the Javari Valley in 2022. Their dismembered bodies were found in a shallow grave.
The true horror isn't just the violence; it's the impunity. In the jungle, silence is complicity. While the world consumes cheap timber and meat from deforested areas, the guardians of the Amazon fall one by one in a war that no one has declared, but that we are all funding.
If this story moved you, share it. If you think there's something that shouldn't be kept quiet, write to me. We'll talk in the next episode.
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