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543. Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God

2025/2/27
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Tom: 本集节目讲述了16世纪西班牙征服者洛佩·德·阿吉雷及其亚马逊探险的故事。阿吉雷是一个极度残暴和疯狂的人物，他带领探险队进入亚马逊雨林寻找传说中的黄金之城埃尔多拉多，最终却陷入疯狂和杀戮的深渊。探险队的旅程充满了背叛、谋杀和恐怖，最终以阿吉雷及其大部分队员的死亡而告终。阿吉雷的故事可以被解读为对殖民主义的批判，对人类本性的探索，以及对革命的象征。 Dominic: 阿吉雷的探险故事背景是16世纪末西班牙帝国面临财政危机和政治动荡的时期。西班牙在殖民地的统治非常脆弱，经常发生内战和叛乱。为了寻找财富并解决社会问题，秘鲁总督组织了一次寻找埃尔多拉多的探险，阿吉雷参与其中。探险队成员大多是亡命之徒和雇佣兵，他们缺乏纪律和组织性，这为阿吉雷的崛起创造了条件。阿吉雷起初反对寻找埃尔多拉多，他认为这毫无意义，并最终推翻了探险队队长奥苏亚的领导，开始了他的暴政统治。 Aguirre: 我是上帝的愤怒！任何胆敢违抗我的人，都将受到最严厉的惩罚！埃尔多拉多不过是一个虚妄的传说，真正的财富在秘鲁！我们将征服秘鲁，建立属于我们自己的王朝！为了实现这个目标，我将不惜一切代价，即使这意味着杀戮和背叛！ supporting_evidences Dominic: 'Loosely based on, I mean, one of the most remarkable episodes of European exploration in history. A 16th century Spanish band of conquistadors venturing into the Amazon rainforest in search of El Dorado. And it doesn't end well.' Aguirre: 'I am the Great Traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks about deserting this mission will be cut up into 98 pieces.'

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“Anyone who even thinks of abandoning this mission will be cut up into a thousand pieces…I am the wrath of God!”

At the height of the age of exploration, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, one story in particular gripped the imagination of European colonialists: El Dorado, a legendary city of gold, hidden in the very heart of the South American Rainforests. But no kingdom sought this prize more furiously than the mighty Spanish Empire. Determined to restore their fortunes with El Dorado’s treasures, they sent countless expeditions in search of the golden city, to no avail. Then, in 1559, the authorities in Lima assembled a new expedition, bigger and better than ever before, under the leadership of the knight Pedro de Ursula. The group he mustered to go with him would prove ill chosen indeed. Among them was his famously beautiful mistress, Dona Inez, and more ominously still, a fierce eyed, limp-footed man by the name of Lope de Aguirre. Little did his companions know that they had a devil in their midst. Aguirre would prove to be one of history’s strangest and most unsettling characters, and one of the great villains of the Spanish conquests of the New World. Cruel and psychopathic, he would eventually violently usurp Ursula’s command, and lead his companions not in search of El Dorado, but further and further into the Amazonian interior, enacting a regime of paranoid terror as they went. It would prove to be one of the strangest, most gruesome, and also the most horrific journeys of all time, replete with murder, betrayal, treason, and above all, madness….

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Join Tom and Dominic, as they discuss the iniquitous Spanish conquistador Aguirre, and his journey both into the heart of the South American wilderness, but also into human madness. It is a story of mystery and adventure, gold and greed, horror and death.

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Producer: Theo Young-Smith

Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett + Aaliyah Akude 

Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor

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