EL AMPARO
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EL AMPARO Book 1
4 parts · 7 h 44 min
Patagonia, November 2025. The Sarralde family has run sheep on a hundred and forty-two thousand hectares of the Chubut cordillera since a colonel was paid the land for clearing it, and a mining company has just been granted exploration rights over the ground underneath.
EL AMPARO Book 2
4 parts · 9 h 27 min
Patagonia, December 2025. The Sarralde estancia has lost the provincial permit over its summer grazing to a mining exploration claim, and twelve thousand sheep have nowhere to go. A Toronto-listed company offers the valley forty-one jobs and a secondary school.
EL AMPARO Book 3
4 parts · 8 h 40 min
Patagonia, March 2026. The rams go in for the two-week service that fixes the lambing date, and in the same fortnight a Toronto mining company lodges a thirty-year federal investment guarantee and puts a drafted zoning bill into the hands of two people who can carry it.
EL AMPARO Book 4
4 parts · 7 h 58 min
Patagonia, June 2026. Winter closes the valley, and the Sarralde estancia goes into it carrying two million dollars of debt, twelve thousand burnt hectares and a lambing it cannot afford to lose.
EL AMPARO Book 5
4 parts · 6 h 19 min
Patagonia, August 2026. Aureliano Sarralde is buried at the edge of his own family plot, because there is no room left inside the iron fence, and his will freezes the estancia undivided for ten years and satisfies nobody. Lambing runs at fifty-one per cent, the worst since 1984.