“Telling stories that, even if they don’t happen to the viewer, allow us to unravel issues that affect us all as members of a society.” That is the goal, according to Gonzoone of the reference programs of LaSexta‘Saved’, This Sunday, September 15 (9:25 p.m.) returns to the network with a new season addressing a case of harassment very particular, in high seas, but it exemplifies a serious social problem, since it can occur anywhere.
The program presented by Gonzo, which will celebrate 17 years on the air next February, reconstructs the history of Mari Carmen Fernandez, married with three children, who in September 2023 was working as a waitress during an expedition aboard a CSIC ship and disappeared. His body was never found, only his personal diary, which ‘Salvados’ has had access to and which, together with the WhatsApp messages he sent to his family, documents the hell he lived through.
In fact, in 2018 the victim had already reported one of his crewmates for sexual assaultThe case was closed without conviction for the accused.
“This family perfectly represents what any family goes through when one day one of the women in that environment is harassed,” says Gonzo, who emphasizes the lack of measures that have been taken to tackle the problem.
Twelve complaints of harassment
“At the CSIC, in recent months there have been 12 harassment complaints. And there has been no solution. How can it be that a public body of the most feminist government in history allows these things to continue happening?,” the presenter stresses.
Apart from the testimonies of the husband, the sister-in-law and a friend of Mari Carmen, who speak on camera for the first time, ‘Salvados’ includes interviews with other women who have suffered a similar situation in a masculine, claustrophobic, hierarchical and escape-free environment as it is a oceanographic vesselas he assures Isabel LoureiroAnalysis Technician at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography and CCOO delegate.
One of them is Amparo Burguillosa scientific fisheries observer, who tells Gonzo what happened to her on another mission: colleagues who comment in public “the biologist is asleep, you can go to her cabin and jump on top of her, she won’t notice.”
Other topics that ‘Salvados’ will analyze during the season is what has happened to The personal escorts who worked in the Basque Country in the toughest years of ETA, after the disappearance of the terrorist group, and what life is like today for the best-known groups on the Spanish music scene, Super submarine, who in 2015 suffered a serious traffic accident that ended with all his members in the hospital.
The darkest side of social media
The La Sexta program will also address, through two specials, The darkest side of social media. It will show the hell that hides behind our mobile phones and our screens, unknown to many users, and it will do so with the help of some of its workers. “They are the people who Meta, TikTok, X and other digital platforms make content available for viewing by people and they hope that it reaches everyone,” Gonzo explains.
“For the first time in the 20 years I’ve been doing this, documenting myself with previous work, I had to stop recording because it caused a physical reaction,” he confesses. “We will be aware of the dangers of not controlling or regulating what reaches us through the screens,” he concludes.
