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