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The Burden: Avenger

Latino USA

Futuro Media and PRX

Society & Culture

4.93.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week Latino USA brings you an episode of the The Burden: Avengers podcast.

Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At age 19, she was kidnapped for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from cargo planes into the ocean. Miriam survived. Then as a journalist, she waged a campaign to bring her tormentors to justice.

Avenger is a podcast series produced by Orbit Media that tells the story of one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country.

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0:00.0

Hello, dear listener, how much

0:08.8

Today, we're going to go back in time, actually to one of the darkest moments in the history of Argentina, the military dictatorship that ruled the country during the 1970s and

0:23.4

early 80s. Miriam Lewin was kidnapped by soldiers when she was just 19 years old. She spent time

0:31.6

in a concentration camp. A lot of other people never made it back home. About 30,000 were disappeared in Argentina during this period, which is known as the Dirty War.

0:45.5

Miriam became an investigative journalist, and decades later, she looked into one of the most infamous practices of the dictatorship,

0:53.8

Los Wuelos de la Morte, the death

0:56.8

flights. In this podcast, we're going to follow Miriam as she finds one of the planes that was used

1:02.5

by the military to throw people into the ocean, which unexpectedly was in Florida, and she fights

1:09.7

to bring some of the pilots to justice.

1:12.7

Here's the first episode of Avenger, produced by Orbit Media in association with Sonoro.

1:21.2

Before we begin, please note that for this story, we interviewed Medium and everyone else for dozens of hours in Spanish.

1:28.3

We hired actors to voice their words in English.

1:32.3

By then, it was much more than a feeling.

1:43.3

I knew that I was being followed.

1:47.8

I avoided going to my family's house because I knew they would be there waiting for me.

1:56.3

It's late afternoon, 1977. Medium is in a neighborhood in Buenos Aires.

2:02.4

She's 19.

2:03.8

It's been a year since Argentina's military seized power.

2:09.8

A coup to bring back peace and stability, says the military dictator.

2:15.3

People like Medium, a young political dissident, are now targets.

2:20.2

I was actually worried about my grandmother.

2:23.8

It had been a while since I'd last seen her.

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