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Speaker 2: Thanks. Before we begin, please note that for this story
Speaker 2: we interviewed Medium and everyone else for dozens of hours
Speaker 2: in Spanish. We hired actors to voice their words in English.
Speaker 2: It's twenty eleven, almost three decades since Medium's released from prison,
Speaker 2: since the fall of the dictatorship and Argentina's returned to democracy.
Speaker 2: By now, a judge has attached the investigation against the
Speaker 2: three pilots to the Big SMA case. It's gearing up
Speaker 2: to be the biggest human rights trial in the country's history.
Speaker 2: Months before the trial begins, a prosecutor investigating the Death
Speaker 2: Flights makes a surprise announcement.
Speaker 3: He said they had identified the pilots of the death Flights,
Speaker 3: who flew the Santa Cruz church group in December nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy seven.
Speaker 2: He doesn't release any names, but once it's in the news,
Speaker 2: the pilots will know it's them. Medium is confused. Why
Speaker 2: should the prosecutor do this before the pilots were arrested.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: Was he trying to give the pilots a chance to
Speaker 3: leave the country.
Speaker 2: But things get even weirder.
Speaker 3: Mario Danielle Arub He was sixty two. He had been
Speaker 3: flying for the National Airline. This pilot went to the
Speaker 3: judge's office and turned himself.
Speaker 2: In instead of arresting him, the judge confirms he's being
Speaker 2: accused of flying a death flight in December nineteen seventy seven,
Speaker 2: of piloting the sky van that Medium and Giancarlo had
Speaker 2: found in Florida.
Speaker 3: So the judge tells the pilot not to worry that
Speaker 3: he could go home, that someone would contact him soon.
Speaker 3: I mean, what the risk of the pilot's fleeing vanishing?
Speaker 3: It kept me up all night.
Speaker 2: Several weeks later, Medium wakes up, makes coffee, and then
Speaker 2: she hears breaking news coming from the radiotoria.
Speaker 3: Finally, the judge ordered the arrest of the three pilots
Speaker 3: involved in the flight that killed the Santa Cruz church group.
Speaker 3: Among them were the two French nuns and the mothers
Speaker 3: who were looking for their disappeared.
Speaker 2: From Orbit media. I'm andres caaba schedo. This is Avenger
Speaker 2: the story of Medium Lewin Episode eight.
Speaker 4: Justice.
Speaker 2: When it comes to putting the top generals, the junta
Speaker 2: leaders in prison for life, the path was hardly a
Speaker 2: straight line.
Speaker 3: After the amnesty laws went into effect. There were trials
Speaker 3: that tried to expose the truth, but the accused were
Speaker 3: able to admit they had kidnapped and tortured people, and
Speaker 3: then they were just able to return to their homes
Speaker 3: and their everyday lives with zero consequences.
Speaker 2: Remember, the laws passed by the democratically elected government gave
Speaker 2: amnesty to anyone who claimed to be just following orders.
Speaker 2: The human rights trials against military officials were halted by
Speaker 2: those laws. Then, in two thousand and five, two years
Speaker 2: before Medium and Gen Carlo started their investigation, the Supreme
Speaker 2: Court finally declares the amnesty laws unconstitutional. Now the trials
Speaker 2: are back on, more people are speaking up, more evidence
Speaker 2: is emerging. The Junta leaders, once spared prison sentences, are
Speaker 2: vulnerable again.
Speaker 5: The Supreme Court annulled the amnesty, opening the door for
Speaker 5: Videla to be sentenced again. On thirty one, New counts
Speaker 5: of torture and murder.
Speaker 2: Jorge Rafaele Videla, who orchestrated the military court the.
Speaker 5: Highlight of a week of convictions against violators of human
Speaker 5: rights and life sentence for eighty five year old for
Speaker 5: her Rafaele Videla.
Speaker 2: In twenty twelve, a year after being convicted for torture
Speaker 2: and murder, Videla is facing a new trial.
Speaker 6: Activists were gathered outside the court in a nearby square.
Speaker 6: A television link had been set up to beam the
Speaker 6: court proceedings to the hundreds of people who had assembled outside.
Speaker 2: The charges were horrific. During its rule, the junta stole
Speaker 2: roughly five hundred babies from their mothers and then sold
Speaker 2: those babies or give them to military families deemed politically acceptable.
Speaker 2: Prosecutors believed the baby stealing was so widespread that there
Speaker 2: was no way the orders weren't coming from the top.
Speaker 2: They charged Videla with masterminding it all.
Speaker 1: Vidella has repeatedly justified his regime's brutal tactics.
Speaker 2: Videla's defense, yes, babies were confiscated, but he had nothing
Speaker 2: to do with it. It wasn't some sort of grand
Speaker 2: government plan. Apparently he wanted people to believe it was
Speaker 2: some sort of freelance project by military underlings. The jury disagreed.
Speaker 2: Videla was found guilty and got another fifty years in prison.
Speaker 2: Less than a year later, he was found dead in
Speaker 2: his cell, sitting on a toilet. He had reportedly fallen
Speaker 2: and never got medical attention.
Speaker 5: There are still some eight hundred other alleged rights violators
Speaker 5: awaiting trial, and given their advanced age and the lately
Speaker 5: legal process, they may never face Justice.
Speaker 7: Alfredo Ignacio Attis, Antonio Perniaz.
Speaker 2: It's over twenty eleven. Alfredostis, known as the Blonde Angel
Speaker 2: of death sits in a packed courtroom. It's sentencing day.
Speaker 2: Once Astes used his angelic face to infiltrate a group
Speaker 2: of mothers of the disappeared. He had kissed those he
Speaker 2: wanted kidnapped. Then they were taken to a clandestine center
Speaker 2: and put on death flights. He no longer has that
Speaker 2: baby face. Now he looks disgruntled. His hair's combed to
Speaker 2: the side, and he's wearing a dark gray suit with
Speaker 2: a black tie. A few rows behind him, a glass
Speaker 2: wall has been installed to separate defendants like Astees from
Speaker 2: the justice hungry relatives of the disappeared watching everything unfold.
Speaker 3: I sat just feet away from Astise. At one point
Speaker 3: he looked right at me with resentment, as if I
Speaker 3: owed him some sort of loyalty. It was absurd, as
Speaker 3: if he were telling me, how could you?
Speaker 2: Astis had really believed Medium was an ally twenty years earlier,
Speaker 2: when Medium was still under Junta control. He had written
Speaker 2: his contact information on a napkin in case she needed
Speaker 2: anything after she was released from prison. The same napkin
Speaker 2: Medium had produced in the nineteen eighty five Junta trial
Speaker 2: to implicate Astis.
Speaker 7: In the Ciencia Parsial del Suez. Doctor Ricardo Louis Fardiez.
Speaker 2: Two rows in front of Astis is Jorge Eltira Costa,
Speaker 2: the guy who used to say that Jesus sat on
Speaker 2: his shoulder every night and told him who to put
Speaker 2: on the death flights. Medium knew him well. He had
Speaker 2: taken her and her parents.
Speaker 7: To dinner Bigamoo Condo Ajorge.
Speaker 3: The families and activists were anxiously waiting, so were the
Speaker 3: people who couldn't get in, watching live through a big
Speaker 3: screen outside the court. Gian Carlo was also there, taking pictures,
Speaker 3: but we barely saw each other. There were so many people.
Speaker 2: A Coostaynastis were sentenced to life in prison for crimes
Speaker 2: against humanity. In the years to come, these commanders would
Speaker 2: be tried and sentenced over and over again. But the
Speaker 2: biggest human rights case in Argentina's history is still in
Speaker 2: the making.
Speaker 8: The trial over what happened at the Navy Mechanical School
Speaker 8: is the largest ever human rights trial in Argentina. It
Speaker 8: will be a long process, but one many are hoping
Speaker 8: will bring closure to a painful chapter of Argentine history.
Speaker 2: This trial marked the first time that Argentina's justice system
Speaker 2: acknowledged that the death flights were a systematic plan to
Speaker 2: kill thousands of dissidents, a state sanctioned assassination program. The
Speaker 2: pilots were in the spotlight, especially those who flew the
Speaker 2: planes that killed the mothers and the nuns, the victims
Speaker 2: chosen from the crowd by asties. They'd been loaded on
Speaker 2: a death flight in December nineteen seventy seven, a sky van,
Speaker 2: the same plane that Medium and Giancarlo had tracked down
Speaker 2: in Florida, with the flight lugs and the pilot's names.
Speaker 2: Pilots who for thirty years after flying death machines had
Speaker 2: filtered back into civilian life, leading normal lives as if
Speaker 2: nothing had happened. At the time of the trial, two
Speaker 2: of these pilots were flying regularly to Europe for Atlinias Argentinas,
Speaker 2: the country's national airline. One of them was rue.
Speaker 9: That Arula's name. I heard it before.
Speaker 2: Whenever Giangadlo went to Rome, he would fly with Arolinias Argentinas.
Speaker 9: The thing is that in this flight they tend to
Speaker 9: say the names of the pilots, and the Arula's name
Speaker 9: stuck with me because it was a Sardo last name
Speaker 9: from Sardinia, Italy. So when we looked at the list
Speaker 9: of pilots from the sky, then I immediately recognized the name.
Speaker 9: It was the same Arou I had actually flown with
Speaker 9: a death flight.
Speaker 2: Pilot. Eru and Saint George had asked to leave the
Speaker 2: military around nineteen seventy eight, but not all of the
Speaker 2: pilots did. One pilot, Alejandro Domingo de Agustino, stayed and
Speaker 2: eventually ran airplane maintenance.
Speaker 3: Seventeen days after the flight where the nuns and the
Speaker 3: activists were killed, a military superior wrote a letter praising
Speaker 3: the Agustina for his ability to follow instructions, his ability
Speaker 3: to be level headed.
Speaker 2: Just how deeply they were involved in the death flights
Speaker 2: would determine their punishment. The pilots claimed they only flew
Speaker 2: the planes and didn't know about the executions happening a
Speaker 2: few feet away from the cockpit, while Enrique Mirinto, the
Speaker 2: aviation expert who had helped Medium and gian Carlo understand
Speaker 2: what happened, told the jury no way. The pilots had
Speaker 2: to be an intimate part of the death machine.
Speaker 4: Inside the plane, a person must be assigned as a
Speaker 4: flight technician of sorts. This would have been the actual
Speaker 4: person operating the latches. Those latches enabled the cargo doors
Speaker 4: to be opened during flight, but for this to happen,
Speaker 4: that technician has to inform the pilot about it so
Speaker 4: that it's done safely.
Speaker 2: A pilot must know what's happening inside the plane at
Speaker 2: all times, from the number of passengers to how much
Speaker 2: cargoes on board. Weight is an important safety consideration, So
Speaker 2: when the pilot hears that a technician wants to open
Speaker 2: the hatch mid flight, he has to ask. He has
Speaker 2: to know what's happening. There is no chance they're not aware.
Speaker 2: No possible way. Begnetto's testimony is strong, convincing, but was
Speaker 2: it enough to build a solid case. In twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: Medium finds herself in a unique position, a journalist whose
Speaker 2: investigation led to this trial and is also a witness
Speaker 2: to what happened at the Esthma clandestine center.
Speaker 3: I have to be ready to talk with lawyers and
Speaker 3: public defenders, and then I have to testify over and
Speaker 3: over again, which as long as I'm alive, it's my responsibility.
Speaker 2: At this point, a new prosecutor comes into the picture.
Speaker 2: Mercedes Sosa Riley has the big task of consolidating all
Speaker 2: of the survivor's testimonies people at ESMA with the evidence
Speaker 2: from Medium and gian Carlo's investigation.
Speaker 10: Ila pruea mediam al huisio foe absolute am.
Speaker 2: That's Mercedes. She's explaining how the evidence Medium brought to
Speaker 2: the case is incredibly revealing. The flight logs are the
Speaker 2: missing link we needed to solve the case, she says,
Speaker 2: the names of the pilots, signs of abnormal flights, and
Speaker 2: details about the flight that killed the church group.
Speaker 10: Yes a la Santa Gruz.
Speaker 2: Once all the claims, testimonies and evidence are compiled, Mercedes
Speaker 2: is ready to present a case where the whole isthma
Speaker 2: structure would, for the first time in history, be on trial.
Speaker 2: The kidnappers, the infiltrators, the torturers, the pilots, any superior
Speaker 2: who gave them orders, all would now face.
Speaker 7: Justice Buenodiyas by Mosaicio.
Speaker 2: Finally, on November twenty eight, twenty twelve, the trial begins.
Speaker 3: And there they were, sitting side by side, sixty eight
Speaker 3: people accused, a chain that started with us tie and
Speaker 3: ended with the Pilots Ru, the Saint George and the Agustino,
Speaker 3: and went straight to Altigre Acosta. Every single one of
Speaker 3: those sixty eight had done their part to complete this
Speaker 3: horrifying mission successfully.
Speaker 9: Pedro Santa Maria Antonio Anyek.
Speaker 2: Inside the courtroom, the glass wall divides the accused from
Speaker 2: the crowd, including relatives of the victims. The accused sit
Speaker 2: with their defenders in a row just feet away. The
Speaker 2: three judges take the bench. One speaks into a thin
Speaker 2: black microphone and starts the proceedings, and Rigapinto sits among
Speaker 2: the crowd quietly in a corner. He had been instrumental
Speaker 2: in validating Medium and Gian Carlo's findings, but today. He
Speaker 2: just wants to be there and Seattle.
Speaker 4: As soon as the judges entered the room, I got
Speaker 4: a feeling that this could really lead to something good.
Speaker 2: The hearings go on for months. Then it's Medium's turn
Speaker 2: to testify. She sits near the prosecutors and the judges.
Speaker 2: The lawyers of the pilots are there, but the pilots
Speaker 2: themselves watch from a screen inside prison. They'd been given
Speaker 2: the choice whether or not to be there.
Speaker 3: It was such a shame. I would have loved to
Speaker 3: see their faces, but the pilots were following everything from prison.
Speaker 2: Medium walks up to the stand, sits down and begins
Speaker 2: telling her story. Is Timonio the Medium?
Speaker 11: Yes.
Speaker 2: Mercedes says that Medium's account her investigation were essential to
Speaker 2: the larger argument to bring those who took part in
Speaker 2: the death flights to justice. The hearings go on for
Speaker 2: another two years. The prosecutor has nearly eight hundred testimonies
Speaker 2: against the sixty eight accused, including the three pilots. By
Speaker 2: then many were elderly. Fourteen died of natural causes during
Speaker 2: those two years, so now there are only fifty four
Speaker 2: defendants left. At the end, the prosecution demanded life sentences
Speaker 2: for all the accused.
Speaker 3: The Saint George died mid trial, so that day only
Speaker 3: two of the three identified pilots were there, Aru and
Speaker 3: di Agostino.
Speaker 2: In November twenty seventeen, the judges finally hand down sentences
Speaker 2: for the pilots, along with others who participated in the
Speaker 2: flights and the asthma operations.
Speaker 11: Dozens of people gathered outside this court house in Buenos
Speaker 11: Aires to hear the sentences against fifty four former members
Speaker 11: of security forces, among them Alfredo Atis, known as the
Speaker 11: Angel of Death, who infiltrated human rights and had some
Speaker 11: of their members killed.
Speaker 3: The sentencing could legitimize all the work Giancarlo and I
Speaker 3: put into the investigation. The press was spreading rumors that
Speaker 3: the pilots wouldn't be convicted, that there wasn't enough evidence.
Speaker 7: Tura alberedicto filmato oral.
Speaker 2: In court, everyone is in place, witnesses, lawyers, prosecutors behind
Speaker 2: them in the glass wall, medium and the relatives of
Speaker 2: the victims holding pictures of the disappeared. The defendants are
Speaker 2: huddled together on one side of the room. Many are
Speaker 2: well past their seventies. Alfredostie, the blonde angel, more like
Speaker 2: a gray haired Angel now is sitting wearing a suit
Speaker 2: with an Argentine flagpen. He looks pensive. To his right
Speaker 2: is Altigra Costa. He looks skinny, tired. He's wearing glasses
Speaker 2: in a blue zipped up jacket. To Astis's left is
Speaker 2: Mario Ru, one of the Skyban pilots. He's wearing jeans
Speaker 2: at tucked in shirt. He leans back in his chair
Speaker 2: with his arms crossed, as if he were watching a play.
Speaker 2: The judge sentences Ru to life in prison for the
Speaker 2: death of the nuns and the mothers, and his face
Speaker 2: changes completely. He looks surprised, tense, angry. He shakes his
Speaker 2: head in denial, covers his mouth with his left hand.
Speaker 2: The judge continues, ordering a life sentence for the other
Speaker 2: living pilot, Alejandro Domingo di Austina. Finally, Astis in Acosta,
Speaker 2: the blonde Angel, and Altigre Medium's captors were given additional
Speaker 2: life sentences. Are Astis. He denied wrongdoing until the very
Speaker 2: end was important. In one of his previous closing statements,
Speaker 2: he said, quote, I will never apologize for defending my
Speaker 2: country end quote. A decade had passed since Medium met
Speaker 2: giancadlo at that cafe for the first time when she
Speaker 2: found him bizarre, impudent, but also charming. A decade since
Speaker 2: their first dinners and shared cigarettes, and since Giancarlo convinced
Speaker 2: Medium that this was a story worth pursuing. Now they
Speaker 2: finally helped bring the pilots of the Death Flights and
Speaker 2: some of Argentina's most powerful Junta members to justice.
Speaker 3: I was sad when the sentencing began. Giancarlo couldn't make it.
Speaker 3: He was in Havana for world But when they read
Speaker 3: the sentencing, I was sitting next to the daughters of
Speaker 3: some of the mothers that had been killed on the
Speaker 3: sky van, and being around them in that moment it
Speaker 3: felt special. It was like some form of healing.
Speaker 9: I remember Miriam calling me the day of the sentencing.
Speaker 9: She was ecstatic, she was yelling, And after that I
Speaker 9: went on a long walk. I had decided to be
Speaker 9: here instead of in the court. I didn't want to
Speaker 9: take pictures of caged animals, so to speak. I felt
Speaker 9: happy about the sentence, of course, but I also felt
Speaker 9: happy about my decision to take it all in from
Speaker 9: Afar alone.
Speaker 2: Forty five years have passed since Medium was held captive
Speaker 2: inside ESMA the Mechanics school. It's spring twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: and Medium is invited to ESMA to receive an award
Speaker 2: along with other survivors. Now this former clandestine torture site
Speaker 2: is a place of remembrance, transformed into a museum. The
Speaker 2: hope is that Argentina never forgets this horrific history and
Speaker 2: what went on inside those walls.
Speaker 3: That idea sits well with me.
Speaker 2: The Esthma now opens its doors to cultural events, music shows,
Speaker 2: and they've purposely left the holding cells and the facilities
Speaker 2: intact the way they looked during the dictatorship.
Speaker 3: I always get a very particular horrible energy here. You
Speaker 3: can feel it.
Speaker 2: She walks past the place where officers would spend time.
Speaker 2: She sees the torture rooms, the cells, in the room
Speaker 2: where most new prisoners slept on old mattresses, no ventilation.
Speaker 3: The walls are dilapidated. Can smell the humidity.
Speaker 2: Last year I drove by Esthma. It was my first
Speaker 2: time seeing it as an adult. I was in a
Speaker 2: cab to visit the house where I grew up, where
Speaker 2: my grandfather told me at age nine, how people had
Speaker 2: been thrown from planes into the sea. I'd been reading
Speaker 2: a lot about Medium's survival. I looked at the front
Speaker 2: of the building, at stately white pillars. I could almost
Speaker 2: hear the screams coming through the walls of the torture
Speaker 2: chambers echoing through the hallways. I felt shame, anger, sadness,
Speaker 2: confusion about how humans were capable of doing such things
Speaker 2: in the name of law and order, and how an
Speaker 2: entire country blindly celebrated a World Cup while Medium and
Speaker 2: thousands of others Abaracidos suffered from a mile away massa.
Speaker 2: While researching the Dictatorship, I went through hours of archival footage,
Speaker 2: dozens of speeches by General Videla talking about his religious
Speaker 2: nationalist reorganization process, which he used to justify murder. During
Speaker 2: that research, I also came across a ton of comments
Speaker 2: from regular people Argentines responding to those old videos, praising
Speaker 2: this brutal dictator. Hail to my General Videla. Some would
Speaker 2: say the country needs you, or what a shame there
Speaker 2: isn't another Videla in twenty twenty one. Thank you General.
Speaker 2: The dictatorship ended four decades ago, but who can guarantee
Speaker 2: that this won't happen again. Medium witnessed the decay of
Speaker 2: Argentina's democracy, her survival, her determination to avenge the crimes,
Speaker 2: show me that there can be a path to some
Speaker 2: form of justice. In twenty seventeen, Medium flew to Milan
Speaker 2: for the lunch of gian Carlo's book.
Speaker 3: One afternoon, on the way back to Rome, we stopped
Speaker 3: at a small, medieval looking town. We walked around the
Speaker 3: main square, visited a small church, and then we sat
Speaker 3: somewhere to watch the sunset.
Speaker 9: I asked her if she remembered the conversation we had
Speaker 9: at the bar at the beginning of our investigation about
Speaker 9: the captivity that horrible time. She started crying and asked
Speaker 9: me why am I alive?
Speaker 2: I should have died.
Speaker 9: She couldn't stop crying. It was her guilt for surviving.
Speaker 9: For me, it was my job I had this natural distance,
Speaker 9: But for her it was much more than that. It
Speaker 9: was about finding a reason that justified her being alive.
Speaker 2: Today, Medium stays quiet thinking. She reminds him how during
Speaker 2: that first meeting she thought he was so rude with
Speaker 2: these intrusive questions.
Speaker 3: Without Giancarlo, we would have never started the investigation in
Speaker 3: the first place.
Speaker 2: Today, Medium continues testifying in human rights cases in Argentina.
Speaker 2: She's also still investigating crimes committed by the dictatorship.
Speaker 3: It's my responsibility. This is how things played out for me.
Speaker 3: If they had killed me, there would have been no
Speaker 3: witness to help put these criminals in prison. Later, Sometimes,
Speaker 3: when guilt starts taking hold of me, I still ask myself,
Speaker 3: why did I survive. I'll probably never find out why,
Speaker 3: but if I had to answer, I'd say it was
Speaker 3: to bring at least some of those pilots of the
Speaker 3: death flights to justice. I was able to help ensure
Speaker 3: that these pilots wouldn't die with impunity, and that alone
Speaker 3: gives me peace.
Speaker 2: Nearly fifty years have passed since Argentina's military cup. The
Speaker 2: Argentine junta never kept records of the people they targeted
Speaker 2: or murdered, which makes it difficult to quantify the number
Speaker 2: of disappeared without running the risk of leaving many people out. Today,
Speaker 2: there are still disappearances that haven't even been reported. Some
Speaker 2: human rights groups and media sources estimate that the disappeared
Speaker 2: polarizing topic. What we do know are the countless stories
Speaker 2: and testimonies from witnesses and survivors that the killings were
Speaker 2: systematic and they impacted an entire country. More than one
Speaker 2: thousand people have been sentenced for Junta related crimes. Mario
Speaker 2: Danila Rue, the first convey to pilot, died under house
Speaker 2: arrest in twenty twenty two. Alejandro Domingo di Agustino is
Speaker 2: still serving his sentence, also under house arrest. Alol Fosilingo,
Speaker 2: the guy who confessed about his role in the death flights,
Speaker 2: was sentenced while in Spain to more than a thousand
Speaker 2: years in prison. Navy Admiral Emilia Massera, the top boss
Speaker 2: overseeing ESMA, whom Medium had been forced to work for,
Speaker 2: was considered too ill and see now to be prosecuted
Speaker 2: for his crimes. He died in twenty ten and was
Speaker 2: buried quickly and in secret to avoid protests from Orbit media.
Speaker 2: This is Avenger, the story of Medium Lewin. I'm your
Speaker 2: host and senior producer Andresca Acheedo. The series was produced
Speaker 2: by Essequielrodrie Sandino and edited by Monica Campbell. Original score
Speaker 2: Nicolas Pachella, mixing in mastering Christopher Hoff and Austin Smith.
Speaker 2: Assistant producers Andres Feschtenholz and Eleana Gillespi. FactCheck Alejandro Marinelli
Speaker 2: and leonardos Canone Legal review, Neil Rossini, casting director Paula
Speaker 2: Gammon Wilson. The executive producers from Orbit Media are Steve
Speaker 2: Fishman Fisher, Stevens, Marci Wiseman, and Katie Springer. The voice
Speaker 2: actors in Avenger include Alexis Blodel as Medium, Lewin Fulvio
Speaker 2: de la Volta as Giancarlo Serraudo, Gonzalo Vargas as Enrique Pinedo,
Speaker 2: Edgardo Manono Castro as Bruno Vain, and Tom Schubert as Carlos, Marco,
Speaker 2: Somiliana and Gustavo. This podcast was produced in association with Sonoto.
Speaker 2: The Sonodo executive producers are Camilla Victoriano, Joshua Weinstein, and
Speaker 2: Jasmine Romeo. The rest of the Sonodo production team includes
Speaker 2: Senior producer Carmen Grattol, editor Rodrigo Crespo, Producer Paloma Navarro, Nicoletti,
Speaker 2: Evelyn Uribe, Mariana Corono, el Sara Mota, Manuel Barra, Hannah
Speaker 2: Bottom and Tasha Sandoval. Special thanks to Radio and Casa
Speaker 2: and Pomerak Recording Studios in Buenos Aires, and to Medium
Speaker 2: Lewin and Giancarlo Siraudo for letting us tell their story.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening.
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