Andres Caballero
speaker
52 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Andres Caballero’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not the first time that a foreign journalist contacts Medium for an interview, but Giancarlo is different.
They start talking. Giancarlo seems eager, too eager. He's leaning toward Medium over the table. Medium is not impressed. The whole setup seems off.
Giancarlo is convinced that if they could find the planes, that could lead to the pilots of those death flights.
It was an obscure book. Only a few copies were ever printed. Giancarlo gives it to her and she puts it in her bag. Their meeting ends without a commitment. But it sparks something within her.
Miriam grew up in a nice middle-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires. She was an intellectual child. She loved books and poetry. Her dad was a big influence. He was a leftist. He gave her books about socialism, workers' movements.
Soon, she was an activist.
When Miriam's parents started to worry about her safety, they offered to fly her to Brazil or somewhere outside Argentina.
The economy was in shambles.
Political violence and tensions grew.
Leftist groups retaliate, targeting government officials, police chiefs.
Violence divided the country. The best-known group targeting police and government forces was called the Montoneros. Some supported them, including Medium, as the best hope against forces of repression. But others saw only chaos and violence. They craved stability. Meanwhile, Medium was in the midst of a political awakening. She got a job at a factory and helped organize union workers.
Her parents started to worry about her, but Medium was on a different path now. The entire nation was on edge. Inflation was skyrocketing. The violence was getting worse. The government seemed powerless.
Argentina's armed forces took control. A coup led by General Jorge Rafael Videla. Up until then, he had played a neutral role when it came to politics. But he was the country's most powerful military leader. He promised peace, a stable economy. Officially, his plan was called the National Reorganization Process, or just the process.
Values that General Videla says were threatened by subversives, students, union members, teachers, activists, people like Medium, who he vowed to, quote, annihilate.
General Videla's swearing-in takes place inside the presidential palace. The room is filled with men in green and blue military uniforms, Catholic bishops, and families of Junta leaders watching from a balcony. Everyone is standing. Suddenly, two giant doors open, and General Videla appears. He's tall, slim, with a thick mustache. He has a stern look, and he takes the oath.
The rumors are true. The Junta takes its crackdown on leftist groups to a new level.
For Miriam, it means leaving her parents' house. She knows she's a person of interest. She fears she will bring danger to her family, so she goes into hiding.
By then, Medium had fallen in love with a fellow journalism student, Juan Estevez. They met in college. He was an activist like her.
After the coup, they drop out of journalism school and go underground.
Before they go underground together, they buy two cheap wedding bands and ask the leader of their activist group to marry them.
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