Sex is the gold miners’ currency with young Yanomami – 01/28/2023 – Elio Gaspari

The exceptional 18-hour documentary by American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about the Vietnam War is online. It tells and proves a story quite different from that which prevailed in the conventional version.

For example: in 1968, during the Tet Offensive, when the United States prevailed but was faced with unseen might, the ruler Ho Chi Minh and the legendary General Giap were practically in exile. Giap was in Hungary and Ho was spending periods in China. The boss was the general secretary of the Communist Party, the inflexible Le Duan, a man without a face.

For those who are shocked by what happened to the Yanomami in the Amazon, it is worth remembering that one of the most moving moments in the Burns and Novick documentary is in the testimony of Bill Ehrhart. He was a young Marine and he said he killed people, both combatants and civilians. A single episode tormented him.

It was the memory of the young woman with whom he had had a sexual relationship in exchange for food. Recalling the scene, he was led to think of his mother, his wife and daughters.

Sex is the gold miners’ currency with young Yanomami.

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