The Forgotten Genocide Hidden in the Amazon Rainforest.. The Horrors of PUTUMAYO

Before synthetic rubber existed, the world depended on the Amazon rainforest. But behind the booming rubber industry was one of history's least-known humanitarian disasters. This episode explores the Putumayo Genocide, where thousands of Indigenous people were enslaved, tortured, and murdered so the global demand for rubber could be met. We follow the rise of Julio César Arana and the Peruvian Amazon Company, uncovering how greed transformed an entire region into a system of forced labor, terror, and mass death. From whistleblowers risking their lives to expose the truth, to the British investigation that shocked the world, this is the disturbing story of a forgotten genocide that claimed an estimated 32,000 to 40,000 lives and forever scarred the Amazon.