Homero Gómez González was a Mexican environmental activist, agricultural engineer, and politician. He was a manager of El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Preserve, and he was very vocal about saving them. Untl the day he vanished. He was found dead about 3 weeks after his disappearance and many believe he was targeted because of his activism (starts at 17:14). Before the case of Homero, Cristina reads a few stories from a listener and just a warning, they are very sad!
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Sources:
The Guardian of the Monarchs documentary on Netflix https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/monarch-butterflies-become-a-powerful-symbol-for-justice-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-commentary/#:~:text=Monarch%20butterflies%20are%20important%20cultural,both%20sides%20of%20the%20border. https://www.saveourmonarchs.org/blog/cross-cultural-symbology-of-the-monarch-butterfly https://globalearthrepairfoundation.org/homero-gomez-gonzalez/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/he-told-me-of-his-battle-to-save-the-monarch-butterfly-from-illegal-loggers-now-hes-gone-missing/2020/01/23/353a6a94-3dea-11ea-afe2-090eb37b60b1_story.html https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51304857 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homero_G%C3%B3mez_Gonz%C3%A1lez
chapters
00:00 Intro/updates
05:14 Ghost Stories Sent by Listener
17:14 Monarch Butterflies
21:24 Homero Gomez Gonzalez
50:49 Spooky recommendations
57:52 Outro