This episode isn't comfortable. It doesn't intend to be. Today I open pages that many would like to close: dictatorships that crushed voices, crimes hidden under flags, silences that still scream. You will hear fragments of memory and analysis that are unsettling. Because to remember is to resist. Because forgetting is also violence.

Imagine walking along a path where the trees have centuries of history, but the ground is stained with diesel and ash. Since 2012, more than 300 environmental defenders have been murdered in Brazil. They are not just numbers. They are Indigenous leaders, rubber tappers, and farmers who stood between a chainsaw and a sacred tree.