Martin von Hildebrand - Fundación Gaia Amazonas (Espanol)

Martin von Hildebrand, the director of Fundación Gaia Amazonas, describes himself as a dreamer.

His father was in the anti-Nazi resistance movement in Germany, and his mother fought against the British for the independence of Ireland. That's how he realized that dreams could become realities. The first time he went to the Amazon, he dreamt that "Indians could have their own land and their autonomy --and that's what we have achieved!"

Listen to Martin von Hildebrand as he shares with Global X his moment of epiphany. He went to the Amazon forest for the first time in 1970, spending four months on a canoe. He met Indians that were exploited by rubber barons, almost enslaved: "One fellow was in debt for buying a pedal-sewing machine for his wife... He had been working for 35 years to pay back the loan!"

His advice: "Don't go in with the answers. Answers need to be built with the people, even if they are not the answers you expected, and even if it's not the best one."

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