Speaker 1: Hi there, It's Steve Fishman from Orbit Media and we've
Speaker 1: got something really special for you and our newest podcast, Avenger.
Speaker 1: This one's about a woman's survival and the burden of
Speaker 1: getting justice for those she knew and loved, those who
Speaker 1: did not survive.
Speaker 2: It was much more than a feeling. I knew that
Speaker 2: I was being followed.
Speaker 3: Late afternoon, nineteen seventy seven, Medium Lewin is running for
Speaker 3: her life. She's nineteen. Argentina's military has taken power a
Speaker 3: coup to bring back peace stability, to end with the
Speaker 3: so called terrorists once and for all.
Speaker 2: I turn my head and I see a dark red
Speaker 2: Ford falcon and a long gun barrel hanging out from
Speaker 2: one of the windows. They tackle me and they tell
Speaker 2: me their.
Speaker 3: Police Medium no what she has to do. She and
Speaker 3: her fellow activists had prepared for this.
Speaker 2: It was an order, don't get captured alive. I take
Speaker 2: out the cyanide pill and I put it in my mouth.
Speaker 2: The officers catch on and force me to spit it out.
Speaker 2: Never imagine they would catch me alive.
Speaker 4: At that moment, I just wanted to die.
Speaker 2: He says. I am the man responsible for your life
Speaker 2: and your death as long as you're good, nothing will
Speaker 2: happen to you.
Speaker 4: Medium Lewin Dearie Miriam Lewen, a nineteen year old student activist.
Speaker 3: Four decades later, Medium is among the few to survive.
Speaker 3: She's a respected journalist, but she can't shake her past.
Speaker 3: Her fellow prisoners had been put on planes and tossed
Speaker 3: into the sea.
Speaker 1: Do you know where the planes use for their dead
Speaker 1: flights are?
Speaker 3: Then an Italian photojournalist comes into her life. These are
Speaker 3: the guys who were responsible for the genocidal machine that
Speaker 3: killed so many people. Together they will undertake an investigation
Speaker 3: to solve one of the dictatorship's most heinous crimes.
Speaker 4: This claimer was used to throw people to their deaths.
Speaker 4: People I knew, people I loved. The pilot involved in
Speaker 4: what were known as the death flight will be judged.
Speaker 4: I still ask myself why did I survive? I'd say
Speaker 4: it was to bring at least some of those pilots
Speaker 4: of the death flights.
Speaker 3: To justice from Orbit media. This is Avenger, a true
Speaker 3: story starring Alexis Bladell. I'm Andres cavaccheto join me on
Speaker 3: the journey of Medium's survival and the investigation into one
Speaker 3: of the darkest chapters in Latin American history.
Speaker 1: Season three of The Burden Avenger will be available everywhere
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