Genetically modified seed companies are bribing authorities and carrying out million-dollar advertising campaigns plagued with lies in order to ”create monsters that attack life,” denounced Jesús León Santos, an indigenous Mexican who is one of this year’s winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize. ”We showed them that the cultivation techniques of our ancestors are the best and that they represent life. We are on the right path,” León Santos said in an exclusive Tierramérica interview. This farmer, 42, has led land recovery projects since he was 18, inspired by traditional indigenous knowledge, and on Apr. 14 was awarded the annual prize given by the U.S.-based Goldman Environmental Foundation, seen as the ”Green Nobel”.