Jueves 09 de Abril de 2026

·1 hr 10 min·5 clips

Colombia's Labor Minister Antonio Sanguino reveals he learned of his brother's execution by the ELN — in an internal 'revolutionary tribunal' that accused him of being a military infiltrator — two years and four months after it happened.

1. Lo Más Caracol, directed by Carlos Castro Arias, aired on April 9, 2026 — Colombia's National Day of Memory and Solidarity with Armed Conflict Victims. 2. Host Carlos Castro Arias presents; journalist Vanessa de la Torre conducts the NASA interview segment; co-host Carolina and others contribute to the discussion. 3. The episode's thematic link is memory and aspiration — the ELN segment remembers unresolved victims, the NASA segment looks toward the Moon and Mars. 4. Labor Minister Antonio Sanguino publicly disclosed for the first time that he and his brother Juan Antonio both joined the ELN, and that Juan Antonio was killed in an internal revolutionary tribunal at the Frente Guerrillero Camilo Torres Restrepo in the Cesar department. 5. Sanguino learned of his brother's death two years and four months after it occurred, when an official from the Frente de Guerra Nororiental informed him that Juan Antonio had been accused of military infiltration and executed. 6. He requested the ELN provide proof of the infiltration accusation and return the remains — a demand that has gone unanswered for 40 years — and called on the Unit for the Search of Disappeared Persons, created by the 2016 Peace Accord, to intervene. 7. Sanguino said he found no rational explanation for the ELN remaining in arms during a left-wing Petro government implementing the very reforms that generations of insurgents claimed to fight for. 8. He noted that remains of Camilo Torres — ELN founder killed 60 years ago — were recently found, and that this represented a missed peace opportunity. 9. Colombian engineer Sara Rengifo, an Antioquia native and project manager at NASA Marshall Space Center, appeared one day before the April 10 splashdown of Artemis II, the first crewed lunar flyby mission since Apollo. 10. Rengifo coordinates the ICLES (Environmental Control and Life Support) system, a compact refrigerator-sized machine in the Orion capsule that converts all cabin moisture, sweat, and urine back into breathable oxygen and drinking water. 11. She explained that the toilet uses vacuum suction to separate liquid from solid waste, with urine passing through chemical pre-treatment, mineral filters, and gas separation until only pure H2O remains — which is then re-mineralized before consumption. 12. The Orion capsule interior — roughly the size of two minivans — maintains a temperature of approximately 24°C throughout the mission. 13. Rengifo described the re-entry sequence as the mission's most critical phase: Orion decelerates from 40,000 km/h to splashdown speed via atmospheric pivot and staged parachutes, generating 2,700°C on the exterior heat shield while maintaining under 25°C inside. 14. Each crew member experiences approximately 5G during the deceleration phase — five times their body weight — with descent suits maintaining blood pressure and circulation. 15. She explained that a lunar base planned for around 2030 will be the prerequisite for Mars, because lunar dust contains water and oxygen that must be extracted in-situ rather than launched from Earth. 16. Rengifo said she never planned to work at NASA, arrived in the United States with her now-husband after graduating in Colombia, revalidated her engineering degree, and secured NASA employment after a professor provided a scholarship and research opportunity that built her credentials. 17. She currently works alongside three other Colombians at Marshall Space Center, including Carol Putman and Felipe Mora. 18. The NASA interview includes discussion of whether there is life elsewhere in the universe (Rengifo believes it likely exists at the microscopic level), the difficulty of the crew's training regimen, and the astronauts' diet of dehydrated, controlled food. 19. The episode blends emotional personal testimony from a current cabinet minister with detailed technical explanation from a working NASA engineer, all on the day before a historic splashdown. 20. Colombians tracking the ELN peace process or following space exploration will find first-person accounts from unique participants; listeners seeking lighter entertainment or non-Spanish content will not find it here.

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