The sixth episode opens with the powerful sounds of one of the highest waterfalls in the world in Venezuela. Modern scenes of this UNESCO World Heritage site, Canaima National Park — Venezuela depicts most Westerners’ imagination: grassy savannas, large green forest, groves of palms, moist forestry, the sounds of tropical animals — a secluded home to five endangered animals – the jaguar, ocelot, giant anteater, giant armadillo and giant river otter.  

Our main character, Rafaela Moura sees her childhood in the amazon showing a picture of her as a young girl who then moved to America and became a policymaker for climate change. Now, she’s on a life journey beyond the borders of Brazil risking her life, partnering with local reporters and nonprofits to get to the bottom of the worst environmental crimes and policy debacle of our generation. 

She hears a group of Arawakspeaking Wakuenai people of the Venezuelan Amazon living their day-to-day lives; she stops to talk to a fragile looking woman — and her Portuguese dialect is unrecognizable.  

We see impactful images of how climate change has devastated the rainforest as an interview with the villager tells us about the new situation that is holding Venezuela back and preventing the people from obtaining anything.  

The locals seem content but not entirely at peace, and soon welcome the Brazilian native and her guide into their humble village… She is overcome with emotion as she revisits a familiar tribal village where, she tells the group around her, her entire family lived out the military regime years in Tucurui building the hydroelectric dam. This village was a “Protected Indigenous village” (the chief, most likely, a renowned tribal leader will be determined during Development) .  Her story, and those of a handful of others, will transport viewers inside an unbelievable true piece of human history that is part of the rainforest’s long, complicated association with human rights violation all around the world.  

Here, our story plunges into the dark days of Venezuela’s rise to power at all costs.  These chilling acts were but a part of the larger plan to uproot and eliminate the entire indigenous people and culture from Venezuelal’s future.  Our historical experts help fill in the details of this episode.  

Rafaela journeying into the dangerous depths of the Amazon. She tells us, that she needs to find out the stories of the survivors of the assassinations to get down to the facts, even if she puts her life at risk. The destruction of the Amazon cannot be viewed as civilized vs. savages, oppressor and oppressed. Rather, history, much like the Amazon itself, is nuanced and complex. 

She begins discovering atrocities after atrocities, several hundred every month, well in excess of normal quotas, and clearly in violation of human rights and Federal rules. That evening, Rafaela digests her findings. She tells us how she feels about these discoveries. Fired up, she calls one of the government officials to speak on the topic. Here, she is able to show her heart wrenching interviews with the villagers and present her qualitative analysis of the issue at hand. The official is filled with excuses and propaganda. Rafaela shines the light on how the government failed to protect its indigenous communities and asks for rectification