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That morning,
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like all summer mornings,
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I was getting ready to go fishing.
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There was a road I took every day.
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And, suddenly,
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we saw four or five people
and a car with smoke coming out of it.
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I didn't think it was anything unusual.
A car had caught fire, so I kept going.
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I stopped a moment,
didn't ask questions, and left.
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JANUARY 25, 1997
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At about 6:00 p.m.,
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I came back the same way.
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And then there weren't just three people.
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There were helicopters.
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There were a lot of police cars.
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So I asked what had happened.
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BUENOS AIRES GOVERNOR
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They came and said
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someone had died.
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And they told me they'd killed
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Cabezas.
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A journalist had been killed.
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Immediately, I realized the magnitude
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of what had happened.
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An event
that's really shrouded in mystery.
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A Ford Fiesta had caught on fire…
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A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
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…apparently with a body inside it.
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It was in a ditch.
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The Inter American Press Association
has condemned
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the murder of a journalist
from the Argentine magazine Noticias.
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The photographer José Luis Cabezas
was murdered this weekend,
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and his Argentine colleagues suspect
the murder has political connotations.
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The national government
is being called upon
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to clarify what happened
to José Luis Cabezas.
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Such a heinous event is unbelievable.
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Justice!
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-Cabezas!
-Here!
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Cabezas! Here!
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You're going to testify, Ríos.
What will you tell the judge?
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There's no indication
this couldn't happen again.
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This is a turning point.
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This is one of the darkest events
in national history.
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How do you feel
being linked to the murder?
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What would you say to the Cabezas?
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Yabrán is a businessman like any other.
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Mr. Yabrán is a Mafia leader.
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They're criminals.
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It's like a gangster movie over here.
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The car is completely burned.
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Surely it's been deliberately put there
and then set on fire.
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My mind perpetually
goes back to that summer in '97.
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Those scars stay with you your whole life.
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JOURNALIST
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Honestly, no one is prepared
in any way for something like that.
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I was José Luis Cabezas' coworker
at the magazine Noticias.
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We were the team
that covered the summer in Pinamar.
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And that made us more than colleagues.
We became friends.
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Pinamar is more
than just a mix of trees, sand, and sea.
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Pinamar is trying to be
the fashion mecca on the Argentine coast.
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Pinamar in the '90s was a synthesis
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of what was happening
with national politics.
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There was a very clear frivolity
encouraged by the president, Carlos Menem.
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A system of space flights
that will go to the stratosphere.
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And from there,
in an hour and a half, we can be
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in Japan, Korea, or anywhere in the world.
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Being in politics meant
showing off your Ferrari,
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belly dancing with an odalisque.
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PHOTOJOURNALISM RESEARCHER
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It was showing off power
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and the fascination
with consumption and flashiness.
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Jet set mixed with politics.
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Pinamar was unique in that
it was where, every summer,
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political deals
and negotiations took place.
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It's where the main figures
of Menemism went.
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If, between interviews and negotiations,
there was time to go to the beach,
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politicians chose
the exclusive CR Beach Resort.
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Pinamar was one of the most
beautiful resorts on the coast.
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We journalists liked to go.
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Pinamar was a tribute to life.
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We enjoyed the beaches and the place.
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BUSINESSMAN
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We had a group of great friends
out there in Pinamar.
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On January 24, 1997…
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Hi. How are you?
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…we were having
a party for Oscar Andreani,
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which was a very important party,
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very characteristic of Pinamar,
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because they really liked fireworks.
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We had so many friends
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that we figured,
"Let's make the party a little bigger."
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Let's say, more extensive.
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I realized the party
had gone much further than I thought.
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It had practically become
one of Pinamar's biggest parties.
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And we covered it.
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José Luis took pictures,
and I saw who was there.
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We were together the whole time.
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Around 4:00 a.m.,
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I told José Luis, "Look. I wanna go."
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I asked him what he wanted to do.
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He said, "No, I wanna stay."
He was having a lot of fun there.
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I gave him the car keys,
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and that was the last time
I spoke with José Luis.
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I remember at that time,
it was around 5:00 a.m.,
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I passed by José Luis Cabezas.
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I was going up,
and he was going down the stairs to leave.
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We didn't say anything
because we just passed each other.
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He says, "Spectacular!"
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JANUARY 25, 1997
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On January 25th,
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we planned to do some scouting
around 2:00 p.m.
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First, I texted him
because he hadn't arrived at 2:00.
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He was very punctual. I called his house.
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José Luis's mother-in-law
told me not only is he not there,
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but he hadn't come back
since I picked him up last night.
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I said, "What do you mean?"
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Yes, I started to worry,
and I said, "What happened here?"
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The first thing I did
was call our colleagues.
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Then I found out that José Luis
left Andreani's house at 5:10 a.m.
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I called the hotel
where we had our office.
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Nobody knew anything.
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So I told our friends,
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"Let's go to the hospital to see
if there was an accident or something."
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The hospital in Pinamar.
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We're driving through the city,
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and before getting to the hospital,
we go by the police station.
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MAP OF PINAMAR
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I see the Pinamar police chief,
Alberto Gómez.
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So I get out of the car
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and say, "Gómez! Do you know anything?"
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"We're looking for José Luis Cabezas,
the Noticias photographer."
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He said, "I haven't heard anything.
What car were you driving?"
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And I say, "A white Ford Fiesta."
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He says, "I think I have
some bad news for you."
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And I say, "What happened?"
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I thought it was an accident.
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I thought someone had stolen the car
or something.
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He gets to his office.
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I'm behind him.
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And with his radio,
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he spoke with those in the pit
where the car had been found.
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I heard him say to the police there,
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"It seems like we have an ID on the body."
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"It might be José Luis Cabezas
from Noticias magazine."
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I said, "But you should know
if it's José Luis or not."
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And they said,
"There's no way to identify him
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because the body is totally burned."
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We're gonna try to film this location.
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Yes. Here you can see
where the car was found.
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It's really impossible to see.
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What we have here is a burnt car.
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Completely scorched
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with a body with masculine features.
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Forensics is on the way
to work on the scene.
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My name is Mariano Cazeaux.
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At the time of the Cabezas case,
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I was a court officer of Dolores Criminal
and Correctional Circuit Court 2,
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which José Luis Macchi, Esq.
was in charge of.
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COURTHOUSE
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The Dolores Judicial Ministry
covers a very wide area,
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including the municipalities on the coast.
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ATLANTIC COAST
DOWNTOWN DOLORES
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On January 25th, a police report came in
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about the discovery of a burnt vehicle
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with a body inside.
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The first police report
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was so vague and so short
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that it was clear
it was being treated as an accident.
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TO LAGUNA SALADA GRANDE
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They took me to the pit
at General Madariaga.
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A policeman came.
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They told him,
"This is Cabezas' colleague."
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They took me to the pit.
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When I got there,
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I saw that horrible scene,
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which is an image
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that continuously comes to mind
and that I'll never forget.
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I couldn't believe
what I was seeing was José Luis.
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It's…
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It was…
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It was horrible.
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Then I asked if they'd found a camera.
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They said no, there was no camera.
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I asked if they'd found rolls of film.
They showed me some burnt rolls.
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They started showing me
a series of objects.
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They showed me a Texan boot.
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They showed me a watch.
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Some handcuffs.
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That's when I found out
he had been handcuffed.
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And they showed me a bunch of keys,
and I saw one
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that seemed like the one
to our office in Pinamar.
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Since I had another set of keys,
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I went to look for the other set
in my backpack.
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We compared them, and they were the same.
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We went to Pinamar, to the office.
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When we put the key in and turned it
and it opened the office,
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that's when it hit me.
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That's when I knew
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that the person who had been murdered,
who had been burned,
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was José Luis.
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JOURNALIST MURDERED
AND BURNED ON THE COAST
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JOURNALIST'S BODY
FOUND IN GENERAL MADARIAGA
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At first, it was incredibly confusing.
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JOURNALIST - NOTICIAS MAGAZINE
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I didn't really understand
what was going on.
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NOTICIAS MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHER
HANDCUFFED AND BURNED IN CAR IN PINAMAR
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A crime in the middle of democracy
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was unforeseen, unimaginable,
and absolutely shattering.
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JOURNALIST - NOTICIAS MAGAZINE
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We ask ourselves
who is capable of such barbarity.
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And I don't think many people are.
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I was just starting out
as a radio field reporter.
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At that time,
there was a lot of confusion.
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But I do remember I called the radio
to say I wanted to go.
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JOURNALIST
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Public opinion of Menem
was already negative,
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pretty negative.
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There were a lot of reports of corruption.
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And those reports
were coming from the media.
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Until we don't stop…
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In Carlos Menem's first press conference,
he gets very uncomfortable and says,
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"This issue concerns
the Buenos Aires province."
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"This isn't a political crime."
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Please don't try to politicize the matter.
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This is a turning point.
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There has been no incident of this sort
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since the return of democracy.
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Nothing indicates
this couldn't repeat itself.
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Mr. Alfonsín, a great Argentine president,
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said, "They threw a dead man at Duhalde."
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When the crime against José Luis happened,
Duhalde was scared.
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I really think he was scared.
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José Luis Cabezas' body
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was transported
from Pinamar to La Plata on Sunday.
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The autopsy was done
in the judicial morgue,
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where it was verified the journalist
was murdered by a shot to the head.
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The autopsy determined
it had been a violent murder,
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which was the product
of a shot from a firearm.
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They had the direction
of the entry and exit of the projectile.
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Was he handcuffed?
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-He was handcuffed.
-With handcuffs from your precinct?
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POLICE CHIEF - HEAD INVESTIGATOR
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I cannot confirm that.
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We intend to take statements
from several individuals.
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JUDGE - DOLORES COURT
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And then the rest will come
as the investigation develops.
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Has anyone been arrested?
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No one has been arrested or held.
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Cabezas was a really funny guy.
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PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
NOTICIAS MAGAZINE
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But underneath being funny,
he was arrogant.
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He was very arrogant.
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Here goes.
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-Stop.
-No, you can't play. You're a cheater.
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He was happy, friendly, goofy.
Really goofy.
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PRESIDENT, ARGENTINE ASSOCIATION
OF PHOTOJOURNALISTS
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The couple who gets the treasure
doesn't pay for the meat.
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At first, I didn't like him very much.
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After that, things changed.
We became friends.
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When the idea of assembling a team
for Noticias came up,
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they called me and said,
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"Find yourself five photographers
and make Noticias."
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Among those five photographers,
I chose Cabezas
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because I saw he was a guy
that really cared about framing.
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The magazine Noticias was a news magazine,
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and the majority of the covers
had a political concept.
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It had journalistic investigations,
and the photos were really important.
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At the magazine, we came to have
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the most important team
of photojournalists in Latin America.
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Cabezas didn't just take
a picture of a guy sitting.
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He'd take a picture of the guy sitting
but from above.
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You know? From a strange angle.
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He was looking for his own style,
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and I think he was finding it.
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There were many interviews where
he'd get on the desk, and I'd tease him.
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But he was obsessive.
He always wanted a little more.
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He got his inspiration
from the surroundings he was working in.
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I've never seen another photographer
take so many rolls.
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He was very convincing.
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He was a guy who'd convince
you to do anything.
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He was very stubborn.
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When he made up his mind about something,
it was hard to change it.
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He had a special outlook, and in a way,
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this partying in the '90s
influenced his outlook.
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PHOTOGRAPHER
JOSÉ LUIS CABEZAS
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At 11:00, he said…
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JOSÉ LUIS CABEZAS' WIDOW
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…"I'll be back late.
Don't wait up for me."
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"I'm going to a party."
I knew about this party.
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Knowing him and his nature,
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fun-loving and…
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He just went to a party.
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And after that?
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After?
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After that, it ended.
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AGAINST IMPUNITY
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After leaving the coffin,
the photographers went to the Obelisco.
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They made a circle
and put all the cameras on the ground.
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And suddenly, they realized
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they shouldn't do that
because that was like giving up.
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And they raised their cameras in the air,
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and that's how
the famous "cameras up" came to be.
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José Luis was kidnapped and murdered,
and his body was burned.
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In a way, that brought me back…
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PHOTOJOURNALIST
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…to the darkest times
our country has seen.
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It was a crime from a different era,
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reaching through time straight
from the military dictatorship.
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This was a message to us.
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There was a state of national shock.
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Imagine the shock of this magazine
that was trying to deal with the terror.
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Uncertainty, panic attacks,
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all sorts of demands.
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"Who's going to protect us?"
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From that point on, an avalanche
of threats started to come in.
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Phone calls.
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"You're a dead man."
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Bullets were left on my doorstep.
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I walked around like I did
during the dictatorship,
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against traffic
so they wouldn't kidnap you.
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Living in fear.
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It's barbaric.
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I can't believe it.
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I can't believe, in this country,
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something so heinous would happen.
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We're not asking for revenge.
We want justice
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because this is not
a demand from our group.
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This isn't just for us journalists.
Don't get that wrong.
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It was clear we were gonna have to fight
so this crime didn't go unpunished.
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If this could happen to a photojournalist
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for the most-read magazine at the time,
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what about the rest of society?
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DON'T FORGET CABEZAS
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This will be forgotten.
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Something else will happen
that takes away the public's attention,
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and no one's going to remember Cabezas.
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That's our request.
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ATTORNEY
PHOTOJOURNALISTS' ASSOCIATION
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The first thing we ask is
not to forget Cabezas.
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In "Don't forget Cabezas,"
there's an implied speaker,
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who is someone who's already assumed
the duty of remembering
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and says, "Don't forget Cabezas."
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Otherwise, it will be too late.
Other crimes will start happening.
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DUHALDE OFFERS A REWARD
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The government of Buenos Aires province
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has offered a reward
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to any citizen
who can provide concrete and precise info…
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I think a reward
isn't used often in Argentina,
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but it's something
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that is used in many parts of the world,
especially in the United States.
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And, well, it works.
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The reward
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may get more people
to report what they know.
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Chief, aren't you worried
people will give false information?
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That bad leads will appear in this case?
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Unfortunately, yes. I get them every day.
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Practically all these statements
lead us to dead ends.
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Some even seem to be diversions
to the investigation.
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VICTIM OF UNLAWFUL DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY
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A witness shows up,
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brought to the investigation
by the chief of police.
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APPEAR BEFORE THE WITNESS
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He came to say he knew
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who had committed the crime
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and that they were from Mar del Plata.
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He provides their names, descriptions…
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Compared to Pinamar,
Mar del Plata is noticeably different
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geographically and socially.
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BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE
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Mar del Plata is a much bigger city
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with another way of life.
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The fact is that this group of people
from Mar del Plata
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was linked to the world
of organized crime.
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LOWLIFES
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Margarita Di Tulio, famous
for her nickname "Pepita the Gunslinger,"
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was one of them.
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It was known that she was
in charge of some brothels
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and prostitution in general
in the port area.
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My nickname comes
from old-school journalism
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when I was really young, because I was…
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I loved guns, and I loved to carry them.
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I always use a .38.
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The tip that led
to Pepita the Gunslinger and the four men
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came from a witness named Carlos,
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who claims to have heard
Margarita Di Tulio say,
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days before the crime,
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"There's a Noticias journalist
who's messing with us too much."
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"We'll have to eliminate him."
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He said all of this…
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CHIEF INVESTIGATING OFFICER
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…because he'd heard it
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when he supposedly infiltrated them.
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He provided some information
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that led to the arrest
of the so-called "Pepitos."
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Eventually, search warrants
were issued for everyone.
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And during these searches, a gun was found
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that matched the slug found in his skull.
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One of them had the gun,
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and they had a connection
that linked them.
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There was some ambiguity,
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but after, when the gun appeared,
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we said, "All right,
there's a real connection here."
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Here one of those detainees, the woman,
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Margarita Graciana Di Tulio, age 48,
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is being taken
to one of the police vehicles.
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They're pulling my leg.
Mine and the Cabeza family's.
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What can you say about the gun?
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00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,440
Obviously, they said they're innocent,
and the truth should be known.
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What can you say?
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This is all a lie, a farce.
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00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:14,920
Why did they get you into this?
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My name is Alejandro Vecchi.
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I'm a lawyer.
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And I was lucky
to be called by Mauro Viale…
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CABEZAS FAMILY'S ATTORNEY
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…who had a show on ATC.
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Every time he had a police case,
he called me.
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The first thing he said was, "There are
no politicians or police involved."
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-Weird, right?
-Yes, it's very…
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-It's weird.
-Why?
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Seems more like a defense lawyer
than a witness.
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That time, when I went on that show,
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the focus was completely
on the José Luis Cabezas crime.
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Nothing else was more important.
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And I'd seen on TV
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that some people had been arrested
in the Cabezas case.
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Something crossed my mind, and I said,
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"It strikes me as odd
that those who were arrested have lawyers,
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and the family doesn't have one."
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My only suggestion to the family
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was to look for someone they trusted
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and have them get to work
on the Dolores file
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because the truth is in there.
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Whatever that file says
will be the end of the case.
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When the show is over,
the Cabezas family surrounds me and says,
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"All right, we'd like you…"
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I had my young daughters.
I wanted to leave, to get out of there.
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00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:34,600
I didn't want to get involved in that
because, to me, it was a case…
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It was like a UFO had fallen from the sky.
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It was something really big.
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At first, I said no,
I wasn't going to take it.
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At home, I said no.
After that, they called me.
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And so I went to see the Cabezas family.
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There I met José, Norma, Gladys…
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I met a family
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that could have been my own.
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I loved him a lot. I loved him so much.
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You have no idea how much I loved him.
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I felt so proud of my sons.
José Luis was the apple of my eye.
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Someone like José Luis?
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He only deserved to be hugged and kissed
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because I've never seen anyone
as nice as he was.
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When I got to the Dolores Court,
I found a totally disoriented judge.
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And I saw a case
that was already contaminated.
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The star witness
was Carlos Alberto Redruello,
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a conman
with charges in several provinces.
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He ended up in Bahía Blanca Prison.
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And when the charges were tallied up,
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he ended up getting out
six or seven months before the crime.
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By order of the head
of the Buenos Aires Province Police,
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this man received a car and a cell phone,
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and went from ex-convict
to police informant.
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In other words, a police spy
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who was going to investigate
some "drug routes," so to speak,
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in Mar del Plata.
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He even suggested the group's motive,
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saying that these people were really upset
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because Cabezas had been investigating
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the narcotics trade in the port.
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00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,760
But it was also suspected
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that Cabezas
had intended to blackmail them
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with information he had.
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INVESTIGATING LIFE
OF MURDERED JOURNALIST
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The argument was
that José Luis Cabezas was an extortionist
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who lived off taking photos
and demanding money from people.
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00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,880
Any manual on investigation or criminology
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highlights the importance
of investigating the victim.
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It's not that they can't investigate him.
They can.
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But they can't openly accuse him
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in a case opened 15 minutes prior.
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First, this was Mar de Plata.
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We were in another universe in Pinamar.
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And we didn't have
anything to do with that world.
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We hadn't even investigated it.
486
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,720
I don't know what's going on
in this country.
487
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,960
But to my son, they're…
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00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,480
What are they doing?
What else do they want?
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What more do they still want
after what they did to us?
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When I went to the Cabezas' house
for the first time,
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they asked me
if I could accompany them to a meeting
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with the governor, Eduardo Duhalde.
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00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:51,000
Before leaving,
he asked if he could speak to me alone.
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And he said he was at our disposal
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00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,880
and that this was
a very important case for him.
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He wanted to know who had killed
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and ordered to kill José Luis Cabezas.
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I have a commitment to Cabezas' parents
499
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,560
in the sense that one day
I will come here, to this neighborhood,
500
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,600
to tell them, before anyone else,
who killed their son.
501
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,920
I remember I had a very strange feeling,
502
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,600
a mix of fear,
503
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,440
distrust,
504
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:19,360
and respect.
505
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,400
There was also a sort of Mafia-like aura
506
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,320
with the police, the government.
507
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,280
And maybe it was the police,
and he also represents the police…
508
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,160
BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE
509
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,040
Dolores is the town where I was born.
I know it, and they know me there.
510
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,280
There aren't many people.
Everyone knows each other.
511
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:51,480
It's a very quiet place.
512
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,680
The town itself has transformed.
513
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:01,720
A small city
514
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,280
that was suddenly invaded
515
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:09,880
by the biggest case
in Argentina and the region
516
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,360
and with an impact
and invasion of journalists
517
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,680
that overwhelmed them.
518
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,840
The town was filled with media trucks,
519
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,680
cables running down the street,
520
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:21,880
people running,
521
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,080
coffee shops filled with journalists.
522
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,720
It shook the town for quite a while.
523
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,080
Judge Macchi and the court clerk
524
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,120
didn't have experience
speaking to the media.
525
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,880
What is certain, then?
526
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,800
The case was overwhelming.
527
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,880
When I heard them speaking
about a small-town judge,
528
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,680
and he liked to be called
a small-town judge,
529
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,600
I thought they didn't know him,
530
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,640
because he was
an incredibly capable person.
531
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,240
And they called him
a "small-town judge" dismissively.
532
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,240
JUDICIAL AUTHORITY
533
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,120
We journalists were absolutely
able to be manipulated.
534
00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,960
They could manipulate us from any front.
535
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,400
And we didn't know where the truth was.
536
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,080
Carlos Menem sent the Minister
of the Interior, Carlos Córach,
537
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,040
and the Secretary-General, Alberto Cohan,
538
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,800
to Dolores to speak to the judge.
539
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,720
A very formal visit
540
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,200
where they made themselves available
541
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,680
and offered all the resources needed
542
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,280
to help solve the case.
543
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,080
When they came out of Macchi's office,
544
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,840
they met the press
545
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:27,360
and provided information,
546
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,760
saying that the tests
had given a positive result,
547
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,000
which in some way implied
548
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:34,800
the case had been solved.
549
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:39,240
The judge has confirmed
in a definitive manner…
550
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,120
MINISTRY OF INTERIOR
REPUBLIC OF ARGENTINA
551
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,760
…that the gun seized…
552
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,480
One of the guns seized,
according to experts,
553
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:52,760
is undoubtedly
the gun used in the murder of Mr. Cabezas.
554
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:58,640
This was unusual because
the official report still wasn't ready.
555
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,600
Two top-level government officials,
556
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,560
a few days after the crime,
557
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,400
overriding the judge just outside
the courthouse door
558
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,320
and saying that the case was solved
559
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,840
was ugly.
560
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,120
This investigation
561
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:13,880
is the responsibility
562
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:19,560
of the Buenos Aires Province's
justice system and police department.
563
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,000
I'm convinced it is the responsibility
564
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,640
of the province to investigate
this serious incident
565
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,800
that has happened within it.
566
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,080
I never avoid responsibility.
567
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,240
Duhalde was a very important figure
at the time
568
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,600
because he was the governor
of Buenos Aires Province,
569
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,600
and he wanted to run for president.
570
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,200
This led to a falling out
with his former political associate,
571
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:42,600
who was Carlos Menem.
572
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,160
Eduardo Duhalde had been
vice president during Menem's first term.
573
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:49,800
Then he was governor of the province,
574
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:54,240
and he was poised
to be Carlos Menem's successor.
575
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,160
There were mutual accusations,
an almost textbook political reflex.
576
00:32:58,240 --> 00:32:59,240
POLITICAL ANALYST
577
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:00,960
First, "I had nothing to do with it."
578
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:02,760
The president says it.
The governor says it.
579
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,840
Because they were the two sectors of power
with the greatest share of power.
580
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,200
The government and Buenos Aires province,
that's 40% of the country.
581
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:10,920
Everyone saw in the news
582
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,240
how political curveballs
were thrown between them.
583
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,000
The murder of José Luis Cabezas,
584
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,120
which Governor Duhalde
could interpret as a warning
585
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,120
against his attempt
at the presidential seat,
586
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,400
is a campaign topic.
587
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,480
That week after the murder,
588
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,120
we'd rented a club in General Madariaga,
589
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,400
where I was going to launch
my presidential campaign.
590
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,000
That incident obviously
591
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,600
meant I had to put the brakes on that.
It was in the middle of it.
592
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,000
I was absolutely shocked.
593
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,120
Duhalde was convinced, at first…
594
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,280
JOURNALIST
595
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,280
…that that body was thrown at him
596
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,360
as a sort of Mafia message.
597
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:04,800
That was the death certificate
of his presidential aspirations.
598
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,680
BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE
599
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:20,800
It's impossible to kidnap someone
in Pinamar without being seen.
600
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,520
At every corner,
there was a politician or a businessman.
601
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,880
Pinamar, at that time,
was the place in Argentina
602
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,520
with the biggest concentration
of security guards per cubic meter.
603
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:38,360
This tells us there was police involvement
or that they looked the other way.
604
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:39,920
The handcuffs.
605
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,440
The handcuffs made me think of the police.
606
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:47,360
It's normal to assume police intervention
607
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,880
in a crime where fire is used
to destroy evidence.
608
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,480
All that could've been done
from the start wasn't done.
609
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:01,520
It was done wrong.
610
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,440
The whole reconstruction of the crime,
what could've been found at the scene.
611
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,680
There couldn't have been so much
clumsiness in a police investigation
612
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,320
unless it was intentional.
613
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,640
One of the leads had to do
614
00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:16,560
with the possibility of police involvement
615
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,360
because of the publication of that photo
616
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,880
titled "Damned Police"
in the magazine Noticias.
617
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:25,160
If there was anyone we were messing with,
it was the Buenos Aires police.
618
00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:28,480
We'd done a magazine cover
titled "Damned Police."
619
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:29,560
THE DEVIL'S SOLDIERS
620
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,040
A police force that was being
questioned for a lot of things,
621
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,680
which Eduardo Duhalde had defendedDuhalde
622
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,720
with the famous phrase,
"I have the best police in the world."
623
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:39,960
THE ARMY OF THE NIGHT
624
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,200
And we messed
with the Buenos Aires police,
625
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,640
taking photos
of the police chiefs' houses.
626
00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:47,760
The guys had fleets of high-end cars.
627
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,760
One of them even had a yacht.
628
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,400
Another had a house in Beverly Hills.
629
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,920
The main photo for the piece
was taken by Cabezas.
630
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,120
It's a picture of Police Chief Klodczyk.
631
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,560
José Luis had no problem
standing on the desk
632
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,080
of Buenos Aires
Police Chief Pedro Klodczyk,
633
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:10,680
an all-powerful man
634
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,480
who led the most dangerous force
in Argentina at the time.
635
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,280
Photographing him from above, you know?
636
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,040
From another place of power.
637
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,400
Klodczyk, with his well-placed hat,
the uniform,
638
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,520
the light-blue shirt, the tie,
639
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,280
looking at us as if he's intimidating,
640
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:34,120
is the picture
that goes with the title "Damned Police."
641
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:39,280
It's really bold to say that,
show it, and show it on the cover.
642
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,320
After the interview with Klodczyk,
643
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,480
when we left
police headquarters in La Plata,
644
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,480
Cabezas said,
"One satisfying thing about this job
645
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,000
is being able to stand
on those jerks' desks."
646
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,600
When that cover came out,
I sent someone to investigate,
647
00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,080
and the findings confirmed
that things weren't right.
648
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:04,400
Just in case, I fired the official,
649
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:06,800
even though I wasn't sure.
650
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:14,000
We thought there
could've been some hurt feelings,
651
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,400
and it could've led someone
to want to get revenge.
652
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:19,640
Honestly,
653
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:22,200
I didn't trust the Buenos Aires police
654
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,560
because I'd worked
on the famous "Damned Police" article.
655
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,960
I knew how they operated.
656
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,280
So I didn't trust them at all.
657
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,080
My first statement
was on January 25th at 11:00 p.m.,
658
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:35,960
the same day as the crime.
659
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,360
The first was before
the General Madariaga police.
660
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,560
And then they took me to an adjacent room
661
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,840
where the Dolores Investigation Brigade
took a statement from me.
662
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,320
That night, we're talking
about the night of January 25th,
663
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,080
they started asking me
what investigations we had done.
664
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,000
So I started telling them.
665
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:55,560
And by the end,
666
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,000
he tells me, "Don't be scared.
You don't have to be scared."
667
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,920
"Why are you so scared?
We're here to help you."
668
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,520
"Give us at least something."
669
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,000
I say, "Start looking
at the first article I mentioned."
670
00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:10,600
"Which one was it?"
"The one on the Ara Pacis Hotel."
671
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,160
And he asks, "Who owns the Ara Pacis?"
672
00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:16,280
And the other officer says, "Yabrán."
673
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,000
The police chief turns pale.
674
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,640
White. He looks at me and says,
675
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:25,200
"Kid, now I know why you're scared."
676
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:33,520
Talking about Alfredo Yabrán
in the Republic of Argentina
677
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,920
was almost forbidden.
678
00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:43,040
He was someone who
679
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,280
we were advised not to investigate
680
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,000
or mess with.
681
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,160
Saying "don't mess with him"
was almost provoking us.
682
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,400
Let's try to know what can't be known.
683
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,960
Yabrán was one of the sons
of a Syrian family,
684
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,920
one of many immigrants
that came to Entre Ríos.
685
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,720
A family dedicated to business…
686
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:12,800
JOURNALIST
687
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,280
…commerce, mainly.
688
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:15,520
A native of Larroque.
689
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,480
He moved to Buenos Aires
when he was very young.
690
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:20,640
ENTRE RÍOS PROVINCE
691
00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:22,840
And he started doing business,
692
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,800
first with the military dictatorship.
693
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:29,840
Then he maintained his contacts
during the democratic government.
694
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,160
The first time I heard the name Yabrán
695
00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:35,280
was in September of '91.
696
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,360
Then I found out that, for years,
he had connections
697
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,640
with the administrations
and with the Catholic Church.
698
00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:44,360
And especially with the Air Force
inside the state.
699
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:45,560
But I didn't know him,
700
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,920
because I'd never
read about him in the media.
701
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,720
I never saw the last name Yabrán.
702
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,200
Everything that had to do with Yabrán
had to do with secrets,
703
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:54,280
hidden secrets.
704
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,360
When Noticias started
the first investigation on Yabrán,
705
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,600
different authorities
tried to stop the article.
706
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,280
It even ended in a police incident
707
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:10,160
because the journalist and photographer
who went to take the photos
708
00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:15,080
of Yabrán's fortress in Martínez
ended up being chased and shot at.
709
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,240
We did an article, several pages long,
710
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:22,920
where we talked about
the serious incident with the gunshots,
711
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,240
Yabrán's background
from Entre Ríos to the present,
712
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:28,880
and for the first time,
713
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,080
we put before the public
714
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,240
the subject of Yabrán.
The mysterious Yabrán.
715
00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:39,400
For many, he was the most important
businessman in Argentina in the '90s.
716
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:44,680
It was said Yabrán's fortune
reached four billion dollars.
717
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,480
But he also managed
the most sensitive parts of the country.
718
00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:52,800
He had private mail through OCA
719
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,040
and bank clearing through OCASA.
720
00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:00,120
All businesses at the Ezeiza Airport
and other airports in the country,
721
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,280
through fiscal warehouses
with the company EDCADASSA,
722
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:08,320
load and unload airplanes
with the company Intercargo.
723
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,680
The duty-free shops…
724
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,200
That means that if a product
arrived in Argentina,
725
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,280
it went through the Yabrán machine
726
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,240
without any middlemen.
727
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,160
CUSTOMS
728
00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:21,840
That gave him absolute power.
729
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,920
SECRETARY OF COMMUNICATIONS
730
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,280
The government will go through
with the order to privatize mail.
731
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:30,760
In the final years,
732
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,760
controversy
over the execution of privatizing
733
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,720
was sparked by Domingo Cavallo,
734
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,280
who warned that Alfredo Yabrán
would not be favored.
735
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,000
The plan is to raise this issue…
736
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,080
MINISTER OF ECONOMY
737
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:43,520
…as a conflict of interest.
738
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,560
On one hand, we have Mr. Yabrán
739
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,000
representing the interest
of his postal service.
740
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:49,640
On the other hand, there's me.
741
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,760
Menem, the nation's president,
742
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:58,280
had found a key economic ally
in Domingo Cavallo.
743
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,800
Domingo Felipe Cavallo, Esq.,
744
00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:05,080
do you swear…
745
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:08,960
Cavallo had a personality
and a political future
746
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:13,240
that he considered to be
comparable to Menem.
747
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:14,160
I do swear.
748
00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:18,000
If you didn't,
God and the nation would demand it.
749
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:22,400
An extreme character of economic politics.
750
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,600
The mentor of the idea of convertibility,
751
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:28,920
a way they found
752
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,680
to attack an endemic problem of Argentina,
753
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:32,840
which was inflation.
754
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,480
Tying, by law, the peso to the dollar.
755
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:39,520
CAVALLO'S COMPLAINT BEFORE CONGRESS
AUGUST 23, 1995
756
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:43,000
All these hypotheses, these assumptions,
757
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,040
and almost convictions,
758
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,680
that Mr. Yabrán leads a Mafia,
759
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:51,800
I have built by accumulating information.
760
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,880
Mr. Yabrán wanted to destroy
the official postal service.
761
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,120
Mr. Yabrán wanted to monopolize
the postal service.
762
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,480
After Cavallo's condemnation,
the Yabrán case
763
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:07,200
became, among other things,
an eminently political issue in Argentina.
764
00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:10,240
Was it the postal service?
765
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,840
Or was it this whole array of businesses?
766
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:17,040
If you manage fiscal warehouses
767
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,440
of merchandise coming in and going out,
768
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,880
the loading and unloading of planes,
769
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,960
the postal trucks that circulate
on every road in the country,
770
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:28,880
that's a little more than mail.
771
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,160
It's a state within a state.
772
00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:33,600
It's a struggle for power,
not for the postal service.
773
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,880
Menem said he didn't know
774
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,480
what activities
the minister of economy was referring to
775
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,040
and that you should ask Cavallo.
776
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:44,240
Clearly, there was an internal dispute.
777
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,600
Domingo Cavallo left the government.
778
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:51,760
Menem and Cavallo's falling out
was a turning point.
779
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,000
Nothing was the same after that.
780
00:43:56,320 --> 00:44:00,280
Cavallo got closer
to Carlos Menem's rival, Eduardo Duhalde.
781
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,960
And clearly, Domingo Cavallo
782
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:07,840
had become not only
someone who accused Yabrán,
783
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,880
but also Menem's political adversary.
784
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,040
When the Minister of Economy,
Domingo Cavallo,
785
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:19,560
complained there was Mafia
entrenched in power
786
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,720
and that the boss of the Mafia
was Alfredo Yabrán,
787
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,000
it was as if the lights
for all of journalism turned on
788
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:29,280
to see who this person was
that they didn't know.
789
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,080
To me, they're Mafia. Why?
790
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,240
They hide.
791
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,000
They don't show their faces.
792
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,040
There aren't even any photos of them.
793
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,360
I was trying to get
an interview with Alfredo Yabrán.
794
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,120
I tell the director of the magazine,
at the time Héctor D'amico,
795
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,640
and he said he remembered
796
00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:53,840
a journalist who thought he knew Yabrán.
797
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:58,560
One or two days later, he answered
that Yabrán wanted to meet with us.
798
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,640
We get to
what was finally Yabrán's mansion.
799
00:45:04,720 --> 00:45:07,600
He receives us with open arms
on the sidewalk.
800
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,160
He leads us to the chalet,
801
00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:12,520
the chalet for guests.
802
00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:16,920
He was trying to be
really empathetic with us.
803
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,040
He was especially nice,
804
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,280
trying to deny
not only our investigations,
805
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,160
but also Cavallo's complaints.
806
00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:27,840
Time and time again,
we tried to set up an interview.
807
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,800
We tried to convince him
to come out of the dark and show his face.
808
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,080
If he, in fact, had nothing to hide,
it was going to be good for him.
809
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,240
He said he wasn't going
to do any interviews.
810
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:42,080
Finally, we convinced him
to answer five questions.
811
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:45,120
Then we went to take his picture.
812
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,440
And he said to us,
813
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,120
"Taking a picture of me
is like shooting me in the forehead."
814
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,880
And he lifts his hand to his temple.
815
00:45:58,440 --> 00:45:59,960
We get back to the office
816
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,480
with a bit of text,
817
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:06,800
with a few quotes from Yabrán,
818
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,040
but without a photo.
819
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,480
In the summer of '96,
820
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:17,320
we already had information
821
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,960
that that businessman
had investments in Pinamar.
822
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,440
After Cavallo's complaints,
823
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,840
getting a photo of Alfredo Yabrán's face
824
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,320
was one of the main objectives.
825
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,160
Yabrán's house there was being watched.
826
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:35,160
Because he liked to play
his game of mystery,
827
00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:38,280
he called it "Narbay,"
which is Yabrán backwards.
828
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:42,400
In mid-February,
829
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,720
we were practically closing shop
830
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,480
to return for the season with José Luis.
831
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:51,480
One of my sources called me and said,
"Tomorrow the uncle arrives."
832
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:53,320
The uncle was Yabrán,
833
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,760
who was so scary
nobody dared to say his name.
834
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:10,640
José Luis and I made arrangements
and got to Yabrán's house at 7:00 a.m.
835
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:15,680
And we see him arrive.
836
00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:19,800
José Luis takes some pictures
of Yabrán going in his house,
837
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:21,640
but they were of his back.
It wasn't any good.
838
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,360
First, one source gave me info
839
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:30,400
on which tents Yabrán reserved
in Pinamar that summer of '96.
840
00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:40,520
Something else they'd told me about Yabrán
was that he was very routine-oriented.
841
00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:46,240
He didn't like going to the beach
in the morning. He went at 4:00 p.m.
842
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:51,160
We went with José Luis's wife
and some friends and others.
843
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,880
And then someone comes
844
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,480
and puts a beach chair down
in front of ours,
845
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,880
and a woman asks me,
"Doesn't he look like this guy?"
846
00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:03,000
And I say, "He doesn't look like him.
That is him."
847
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:07,640
We stay there looking.
848
00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:10,440
We could see Yabrán.
He was very noticeable.
849
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,320
He was a very big guy, stocky,
with white hair.
850
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,120
But José Luis said,
"I don't have the angle,"
851
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,520
because there were a lot of people
on the beach. It was summer.
852
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,120
After a while, we see Yabrán
853
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:26,680
come walking with his wife
854
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,400
to the north, towards where we were.
855
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,760
José Luis says, "I don't have the angle."
856
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,280
I say, "Look. If he's leaving,
he has to come back."
857
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,840
About 40 minutes later,
which felt like an eternity,
858
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:40,080
we see him coming back.
859
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:41,640
And when she sees him coming,
860
00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:44,920
Cristina, José Luis' wife,
poses for a photo.
861
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:49,280
But he was actually
taking a photo of Yabrán.
862
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:56,120
When José Luis took the photo,
863
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,480
we realized it was going
to be a striking photo.
864
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:03,440
We were driven by that adrenaline
865
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:06,200
of getting something unique,
from a journalistic point of view,
866
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,640
and something everybody was looking for.
867
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:12,040
Maybe we didn't think
about the consequences.
868
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,320
My part of that article had to do
with Yabrán's businesses in Pinamar
869
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,200
and a sport harbor project
he wanted to do.
870
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:22,640
It was very flashy.
871
00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:24,440
The numbers didn't add up.
872
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:28,640
In Pinamar, they were saying
it was money laundering from narcos.
873
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,840
We went back to the office
that we had in Pinamar,
874
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,840
and José Luis called his boss.
He said, "What do you have?"
875
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,840
"I have Yabrán
walking on the beach with his wife."
876
00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:45,800
Noticias was getting excited.
877
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,040
The camera roll was sent to Buenos Aires
to be developed.
878
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,280
When the rolls arrived,
I was the first to see them.
879
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,520
I saw the photo.
I looked at it and said, "Great pic."
880
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:55,240
Because it was great.
881
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,320
Very clear, clean,
with a blurry background.
882
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:03,040
Two weeks later,
Noticias is released with that cover
883
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,720
with the title, "Yabrán Strikes Again"
and Yabrán on the cover.
884
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,840
And that was revolutionary in journalism.
885
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,680
It was the photo everyone was looking for.
886
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,160
The next summer, the summer of '96 to '97,
887
00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:33,200
obviously the subject of Yabrán
was still being followed.
888
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:38,960
We went back to Pinamar
with an objective we'd set for ourselves,
889
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,040
which was the ultimate possibility
890
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:43,200
of getting an interview with Yabrán,
891
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,400
"with all the bells and whistles,"
as they say,
892
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,960
with a photo, an article, and so on.
893
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:56,560
José Luis arrives
around December 15, 1996,
894
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,200
and I arrive around the 20th.
895
00:50:58,280 --> 00:50:59,640
When I get there, José Luis says,
896
00:50:59,720 --> 00:51:03,120
"A source told me
that some of Yabrán's people
897
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,520
were trying to get
my address in Buenos Aires."
898
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,480
For me, that story was the end of it.
899
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,160
I don't particularly recall
900
00:51:13,240 --> 00:51:16,040
José Luis saying to me,
"They're threatening me."
901
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,600
I do know
902
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:23,520
he wasn't completely comfortable
903
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:27,560
with how things turned out
after the photo from the previous summer.
904
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,120
There was a situation.
905
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:37,200
Once, when José Luis and Gabriel
were out reporting,
906
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:43,000
someone slashed one of their car's tires.
907
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,200
We took the tire to get fixed.
908
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,560
And when we went to get it,
the tire guy said,
909
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:49,680
"Look. Someone did this to you."
910
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:55,800
Gabriel Michi heard that Yabrán
was having dinner at a steak house.
911
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:00,880
It was known that Yabrán
went around with considerable security.
912
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,120
Gabriel also confirmed it at that time
913
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,760
when he went to try to interview him
914
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,800
and had a rough encounter
with the security guards.
915
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,520
That could've given the impression
916
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:20,480
there was something serious,
or there could've been something serious
917
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:24,240
amassing around the work
of the Noticias team in Pinamar.
918
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:32,240
We knew Yabrán's guards
were rather aggressive,
919
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,800
but we had the adrenaline to keep going
920
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:38,680
and, in a way, unmask who Yabrán was,
921
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,600
which had surpassed our fears.
922
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:42,520
Maybe it was irrational.
923
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:44,400
And maybe, in hindsight,
924
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,480
you'd say, "They were crazy."
925
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,120
But what happened to José Luis
hadn't happened yet.
926
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:52,400
Yabrán had a military security force.
927
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,720
Hundreds of military men
were integrated into it.
928
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:57,960
They provided services
at different companies Yabrán had.
929
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,520
But at the same time, 20 or 30 people
930
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:03,360
were at the service
of Yabrán's personal security force.
931
00:53:04,240 --> 00:53:08,840
The innermost circle were oppressors
from the military dictatorship.
932
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:25,480
Good evening.
933
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,280
-Good evening.
-Good evening, sir.
934
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:32,560
Mr. Yabrán, for years, you've kept a…
935
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:34,120
"HORA CLAVE" TV SHOW
936
00:53:34,240 --> 00:53:37,600
…I wouldn't say a low profile,
but an almost nonexistent profile.
937
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:39,320
Yabrán the enigma.
938
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:40,640
And now, suddenly,
939
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,880
you're reversing that strategy. Why now?
940
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,760
It's was impossible
to avoid talking about him.
941
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,360
And that's surely why he decided
942
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,320
to start building
his own narrative around himself
943
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:57,640
to counter that of Domingo Cavallo.
944
00:53:57,720 --> 00:53:59,720
Domingo Felipe Cavallo
945
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:05,400
wants to make all us Argentinians believe
946
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:08,240
that
947
00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:12,160
there's an American gangster movie here,
948
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:17,600
with a fortress where a mafioso lives,
949
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:19,600
with…
950
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:28,640
a private security army
951
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,080
and with government contacts.
952
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:36,200
In short,
953
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:38,880
a state within a state.
954
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,600
Yabrán started to make public appearances.
955
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:46,440
I'm not going to give any statements.
I'm very sorry about the Cabezas case.
956
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:52,280
Yabrán, why aren't your security guards
suspects in the Cabezas murder?
957
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,160
I don't have security guards, miss.
Do you see security with me now?
958
00:54:55,240 --> 00:54:57,200
-Do you see them?
-When you entered the court, yes.
959
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,600
Curiously, while trying to clear his name,
960
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:03,640
he ended up saying or doing things
to make things more complicated.
961
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,360
And then he gave Clarín an interview.
962
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:10,160
At one point, they ask you what power is.
963
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:12,600
You answer,
964
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,520
"Power is having impunity."
965
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:19,200
Correct.
966
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:23,040
I always say that's the sentence
that paints the picture of who Yabrán is.
967
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:25,680
In other words, if there's one sentence
to describe him, it's that.
968
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:28,880
First, undoubtedly, to me,
969
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:33,240
as I said, I'm not prepared
to give answers
970
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:35,160
to five journalists.
971
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,280
And secondly, I must confess
with complete honesty,
972
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:43,680
when they asked me about someone powerful,
and I said what I said,
973
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:45,000
I thought of Cavallo.
974
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:47,040
He's the one with impunity.
975
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:04,160
On April 9, 1997,
976
00:56:04,240 --> 00:56:07,480
I get a call from the magazine
in the morning.
977
00:56:08,240 --> 00:56:12,080
And they tell me, "It seems
like they found a real lead this time."
978
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:16,040
About two or three months
had passed after the event,
979
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:18,400
and Senator Martínez talks to me.
980
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,800
He says, "I can't sleep.
I have to talk to you."
981
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,240
"Come see me in San Vicente,"
982
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:27,960
where I have a country house.
And he met me there.
983
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:29,880
EDUARDO DUHALDE'S COUNTRY HOUSE
984
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:34,160
And he said, "My chauffeur,
985
00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:38,480
the other day when Cabezas was murdered,
986
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:40,840
said he knew who'd done it."
987
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:46,200
Well, I was in shock.
988
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:48,960
That's when I told him,
"Carlos, we're gonna do something."
989
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:53,320
"If your chauffeur told you that,
bring him to me."
990
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,720
"There's a $600,000 reward."
991
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,000
"He doesn't want anything to do with it.
He's terrified."
992
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:02,200
He says he'd rather leave
and quit the job here in the province.
993
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:05,640
He didn't want anything to do with it
because he was really scared.
994
00:57:05,720 --> 00:57:09,200
Then we started seeing
how we could get him to talk.
995
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,680
Penalty kick for Argentina.
996
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,480
That day, Argentina
was playing Bolivia in soccer.
997
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,240
And I said, "Bring him to me.
Come with him. He was your chauffeur."
998
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:23,560
So he arrived, and we started
watching the game,
999
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:25,960
drinking some wine, and chatting.
1000
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:27,960
Then we had dinner.
1001
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,560
We were having dinner,
and that young man started to loosen up.
1002
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:36,360
In the end, he said he didn't want
any part of it, but he told me everything.
1003
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,720
He just didn't know
that we were filming him.
1004
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:46,880
Duhalde called the family
1005
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,480
and planned on going to Dolores.
1006
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:54,040
He was going to bring the folder
with those he thought responsible.
1007
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:56,600
That's when everything started
to snowball,
1008
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,000
of course, with the lawyer, Vecchi,
1009
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:03,640
fighting to bring down the Pepitos lead.
1010
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:05,280
Duhalde told me…
1011
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,080
PARENTS SPEAK OUT
ABOUT MURDER FOR FIRST TIME
1012
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:09,320
…"José Luis isn't going to come back,
1013
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,400
but I'm going to tell you who killed him."
1014
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:13,960
And he did.
1015
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:17,480
The governor was the most interested
in solving the crime.
1016
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:22,320
You could see he had a sense of urgency,
typical of the political times,
1017
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:26,040
especially with the start
of his presidential campaign.
1018
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:28,480
So he had a vested interest, I figure.
1019
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:31,600
His involvement was important,
1020
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:37,600
above all, regarding the arrival
of the accused Los Hornos to the case.
1021
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,000
No, I got in contact with one person,
1022
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:41,960
exclusively with one person,
1023
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:43,440
who I accompanied
1024
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:46,600
and theytold me what had happened.
1025
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:48,880
The information showed four people
1026
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,280
who were apparently the Los Hornos gang,
1027
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,000
comprised of
1028
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:54,640
Auge,
1029
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:56,240
Retana,
1030
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:57,920
González,
1031
00:58:58,560 --> 00:58:59,440
and Braga.
1032
00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:03,600
And these individuals
had supposedly participated in the crime
1033
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:08,120
and had not been considered
or investigated during the case.
1034
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:09,440
The neighborhood of Los Hornos
1035
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:11,760
is about ten minutes
from downtown La Plata.
1036
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,920
It's predominately made up
of unstable houses and poor people.
1037
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:17,920
There were people from a poor area
1038
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,920
who were hooligans
of the team Estudiantes de La Plata.
1039
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,400
They'd even boasted
1040
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,760
about having committed crimes
against other fans.
1041
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:29,720
There was more than one witness
1042
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:32,160
who said they'd heard them
confess to the crime.
1043
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:33,360
DOLORES COURT OFFICER
1044
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,440
They were key to ordering the arrests.
1045
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:38,440
Retana, do you think you'll go free?
1046
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:41,120
González, are you being pressured
by the police?
1047
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:43,800
When it was time to give a statement,
1048
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:46,200
to everyone's surprise,
1049
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:49,000
all the young men from Los Hornos
1050
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:52,480
confessed to having participated
in the crime.
1051
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,840
Their confessions
were out of the ordinary.
1052
00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:00,520
Confessing to a crime is not usual.
It's very rare.
1053
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:04,600
CONFESSION OF ONE OF
THE ARRESTED IN CABEZAS CASE
1054
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:07,640
They confessed to carrying out prior tasks
1055
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:10,720
and being under the orders
of Gustavo Prellezo.
1056
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:14,920
Prellezo was a police officer
who lived in La Plata.
1057
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:18,600
He had recruited them and gave the orders.
1058
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:20,040
BUENOS AIRES POLICE
1059
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:24,080
Gustavo Prellezo had been
deputy police chief of the Pinamar Police.
1060
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,000
They declared,
1061
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:32,520
"Prellezo took us to Pinamar
to threaten a journalist."
1062
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,360
Why did you take the Los Hornos gang
to the coast?
1063
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:36,600
I can't hear anything.
1064
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,560
Why did you take the Los Hornos gang
to the coast?
1065
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,320
I didn't take them as a gang.
I took them on vacation.
1066
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:45,360
If you took them on vacation,
why did they end up killing Cabezas?
1067
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:46,800
Ask them.
1068
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:48,440
But you were there.
1069
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:51,720
-No, I wasn't.
-Why did they say you're the killer then?
1070
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:53,320
Do you think they'd say it was them?
1071
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:56,800
The accusation spread out
to other police officers
1072
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:58,240
who collaborated with Prellezo.
1073
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:00,720
BUENOS AIRES POLICE
1074
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:04,200
There was Camarata, who was
the commanding officer of Valeria del Mar,
1075
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:05,480
which is right next to Pinamar.
1076
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:07,600
He was the one
who had given them a place to stay.
1077
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:09,600
He rented an apartment for them.
1078
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:13,000
Then the connection with Luna comes up.
1079
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:15,840
He was working
at the Pinamar police station
1080
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:18,080
and participated and collaborated
1081
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:21,520
in following, identifying,
and the prior tasks.
1082
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:26,360
MORE POLICE OFFICERS
ARE EXPECTED TO BE ARRESTED
1083
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:29,240
Police have also arrested
Silvia Belawsky de Prellezo,
1084
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:31,080
who is also a detective
1085
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:33,320
for the Buenos Aires Province police.
1086
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:37,600
Silvia Belawsky was Prellezo's ex-wife.
1087
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:41,280
They had a daughter together.
She was also a police officer
1088
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:43,880
and was living in Los Hornos.
1089
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:44,960
BUENOS AIRES POLICE
1090
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:47,320
She had asked a coworker
1091
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:50,600
to look up
José Luis Cabezas' criminal record
1092
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:53,440
in the Buenos Aires Province Police
database.
1093
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:56,080
That was extremely suspicious.
1094
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:00,800
It was a fact that the Los Hornos group
1095
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:03,360
was directly linked to the police.
1096
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:10,880
José Luis Cabezas takes
two very symbolic photos,
1097
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:14,520
the photo of Klodczyk,
which is the face of the "Damned Police"
1098
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:18,880
and the photo of Yabrán
on the beach walking with his wife.
1099
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:21,720
Both pictures turn into symbols.
1100
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:26,920
Each of these photos
represents a different power sphere.
1101
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:31,560
Hence the initial confusion.
Is it Yabrán or "Damned Police"?
1102
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:34,400
The handcuffs were a message
from the culprit.
1103
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:36,520
Well, look. The police were there.
1104
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:39,400
On one hand, there was Yabrán.
1105
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:43,400
On the other, the subject
of "Damned Police" was very relevant.
1106
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:49,080
That lead pointed more towards Duhalde.
1107
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:54,640
The staff at Noticias
called me very late at night
1108
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:57,200
and said, "Duhalde wants to talk to you,
1109
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,640
but exclusively with you."
1110
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,640
So I went, and at one point, he asked me,
1111
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:06,240
"What do you think?
Who's behind this crime?"
1112
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:07,800
And I said,
1113
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:12,680
"To me, it was the Buenos Aires Police
or Alfredo Yabrán."
1114
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:14,720
And he said, "No."
1115
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:18,400
"I'd say it was Yabrán."
1116
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:23,880
Duhalde urgently needed to
1117
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:26,080
reinforce the Yabrán lead,
1118
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:29,240
among other things,
because of the conflict he had with Menem.
1119
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:33,480
I hope this isn't a scapegoat
just so the governor of the province
1120
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:37,280
can solve the murder and carry on
with his presidential campaign.
1121
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:41,680
Nothing they say will be believed.
At least, I don't think so.
1122
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,760
They're doing this to distract people,
to entertain them
1123
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:49,400
so we think it's over,
but I don't think this is.
1124
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,480
By then, the Appeals Chamber
1125
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:56,840
was freeing people from Mar del Plata
1126
01:03:56,920 --> 01:04:02,280
when they saw another group appear
who was taking responsibility for the act.
1127
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:04,760
Your first words in freedom, Margarita?
1128
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:07,520
Why did Redruello
involve you in this case, Margarita?
1129
01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:08,480
Why did he do it?
1130
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:10,120
How could I have done it
1131
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,720
if I hadn't met a single journalist
or photographer in my life?
1132
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:15,080
We were innocent. We yelled it.
1133
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:18,120
And now everybody knows we were innocent.
1134
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:19,560
I hope that, I don't know,
1135
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:22,840
the truth comes out for this case, really.
1136
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:26,280
This is how the full picture
starts to appear,
1137
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:30,880
and the real involvement
of the Los Hornos gang is shown.
1138
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:34,680
They start to give information
1139
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:38,440
they could only know
if they had been there.
1140
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:39,560
"PRELLEZO SHOT HIM TWICE"
1141
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:41,440
The people from Los Hornos said
1142
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:44,760
Prellezo had shot him twice.
1143
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:47,760
Up until that point,
it wasn't known at all
1144
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:51,080
that José Luis
had been shot twice in the head.
1145
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:53,280
The first autopsy determined
only one shot.
1146
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:59,040
So they asked for a new autopsy report.
1147
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:02,840
And in the second autopsy,
a second hole was found.
1148
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:04,040
SECOND HOLE
1149
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:07,400
They confirmed
what the Los Hornos gang said.
1150
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:14,120
They said that on the way back,
1151
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:16,320
they took Cabezas' camera
1152
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:20,760
and threw it
off one of the many bridges on the way.
1153
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:27,040
That morning, we heard there could be
some news regarding the camera.
1154
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:29,720
I was going live,
1155
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:32,640
narrating the work
being done by the tactical divers
1156
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:34,320
and the Buenos Aires Province Police.
1157
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:37,160
There was an incredible display
in that lagoon.
1158
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:43,280
And after an endless amount of searching,
1159
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:45,120
it finally showed up
1160
01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:49,280
and was immediately identified
by the stickers on it.
1161
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:52,920
We see the stickers.
1162
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,760
You can see in the photocopy
1163
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:59,080
and here on the camera
they just recovered.
1164
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:01,400
They turn it over, and I see
1165
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:04,320
José Luis' kids' stickers.
1166
01:06:04,840 --> 01:06:08,520
Up until then,
we'd only described that camera,
1167
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:10,400
but we hadn't seen it.
1168
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:11,400
It made me very sad.
1169
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:15,400
It's like it all came together for me
that this wasn't just a case.
1170
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:17,640
This was the story of a life.
1171
01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:20,400
This is a human being who was killed
1172
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:22,880
doing his job in a full-blown democracy.
1173
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:25,040
With lots of grated cheese.
1174
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:26,680
They killed him like that.
1175
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:29,080
They took a father away from his children.
1176
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:32,640
The Cabezas case…
1177
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:34,480
The case, right?
1178
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:36,880
It's not a case.
1179
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:40,920
It's him.
1180
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:47,600
Let's say the investigation is slowly
1181
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:50,480
and definitively clarifying all the facts.
1182
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:52,040
Including the mastermind?
1183
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:55,040
It seems like the case
is basically solved.
1184
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:59,520
Now, Prellezo must have a motive.
1185
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:08,120
His residence is searched,
and various items are found,
1186
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:09,960
including a personal schedule.
1187
01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:14,600
And the links
between Prellezo and Yabrán appear.
1188
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:19,960
Those links were even encrypted,
1189
01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:21,480
which raised suspicion.
1190
01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:25,000
Why would they hide their relationship?
1191
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:29,440
And Yabrán's business card appears
among his personal belongings,
1192
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:31,880
with Alfredo Yabrán's
handwritten phone numbers.
1193
01:07:33,040 --> 01:07:38,000
We had a lethal weapon against them,
I'll admit.
1194
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:40,240
Never in their life
would they have imagined
1195
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:42,000
we'd find such a thing.
1196
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:45,920
I think it was the first case,
1197
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:48,040
at least in a criminal investigation
1198
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:50,160
by the Dolores Criminal
Investigation Department,
1199
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:54,360
in which telephone communication
was investigated.
1200
01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:57,920
Maybe that left them unprepared.
1201
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:02,800
This is the famous Castelli bunker,
1202
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:07,800
where Excalibur is housed
and operates each day,
1203
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:12,720
along with the detectives,
headed by Victor Fogelman.
1204
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:17,000
The Excalibur system
had been successfully tested
1205
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:19,080
in various FBI investigations.
1206
01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:26,800
They managed to document and visualize
telephone communications in a new way.
1207
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:30,040
And they managed,
through a computerized system,
1208
01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:32,000
to make connections between those phones.
1209
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:33,960
OUTGOING TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS
1210
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:38,880
Then the first of Gustavo Prellezo's
communications start to appear
1211
01:08:39,440 --> 01:08:42,560
with different people
from the Pinamar Police Station and such.
1212
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:46,520
And a telephone number
starts to appear repeatedly.
1213
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:47,440
INCOMING CALL
1214
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:51,480
It was an unidentified cell phone.
1215
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:57,000
They found it was registered
under the name Bridess.
1216
01:08:57,520 --> 01:09:01,040
Bridess is a security company
1217
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:03,400
that was the parent
of all the security companies
1218
01:09:03,480 --> 01:09:04,680
in the Yabrán group.
1219
01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:09,640
They discovered the phone number
of this famous Bridess
1220
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,120
was used by Gregorio Ríos,
1221
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:14,400
the head of Yabrán's home security.
1222
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:19,880
Gregorio Ríos was a retired
non-commissioned officer of the army.
1223
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:24,280
He was someone Alfredo Yabrán trusted.
1224
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:27,000
The cross-referencing of the calls
1225
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,040
enabled the discovery that Gregorio Ríos
1226
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:33,040
had more communication
with the Pinamar police station
1227
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:34,520
than any other station.
1228
01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:38,120
And as the date of the crime got closer,
1229
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:40,040
communication increased.
1230
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:42,160
More and more.
1231
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:46,440
The last days had
an incredible amount of calls
1232
01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:49,560
revealing the movements
of Michi and Cabezas,
1233
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:52,280
who were just trying to take a photo.
They were around the house…
1234
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:56,880
The day we got close to Yabrán,
1235
01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:01,240
the phone started to blow up with calls
from Yabrán's security,
1236
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:03,960
who were in an apartment watching us.
1237
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:06,760
They were calling
the Pinamar Police Station
1238
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:09,080
with Yabrán and Prellezo
and the Los Hornos gang.
1239
01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:12,520
It was kind of like
a game of cat and mouse.
1240
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:15,520
Just as they were following them,
they were being followed.
1241
01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:21,840
That didn't happen when we were
doing the piece on the police.
1242
01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:24,720
It happened when we got close to Yabrán.
1243
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:27,960
And after the crime, all the calls stop.
1244
01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:33,720
From the moment of the crime,
no one speaks.
1245
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:43,720
At 3:45 p.m.,
1246
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:46,360
the private postal system businessman
Alfredo Yabrán
1247
01:10:46,440 --> 01:10:48,600
is arriving at the Dolores Federal Court.
1248
01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:50,720
An incredible commotion.
1249
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:52,560
YABRÁN'S MOMENT OF TRUTH HAS COME
1250
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:55,240
For us, there was no way
we wouldn't call Yabrán
1251
01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:56,920
to ask him why,
1252
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,760
so he could defend himself
and explain to us.
1253
01:10:59,840 --> 01:11:02,560
The idea was to know
what Prellezo had to do with it.
1254
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:05,600
Alfredo Yabrán is coming out as promised.
1255
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:08,680
His first statement
was an informative statement.
1256
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:11,760
It also created a huge shock.
1257
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:16,080
It was one of the few times
he appeared in court to testify.
1258
01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:18,360
-Alfredo Yabrán.
-Yabrán.
1259
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:25,680
Yabrán obviously had to defend himself.
1260
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:29,680
He had to show
he had nothing to do with that crime.
1261
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:36,560
What are you going to tell Macchi, Yabrán?
1262
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:39,320
-Talk to the cameras.
-Yabrán's going in.
1263
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:42,680
I remember his statement perfectly.
It was very long.
1264
01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:47,720
He seemed very respectful and polite.
1265
01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:52,080
He appeared to be very simple,
1266
01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:53,400
very friendly.
1267
01:11:53,480 --> 01:11:55,520
He treated everyone with respect.
1268
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:59,600
His statement didn't leave many blanks.
1269
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:02,600
He answered every question he was asked.
1270
01:12:02,680 --> 01:12:06,640
And he seemed willing
to go through the penal process.
1271
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:12,440
Excalibur's contribution
to the investigation
1272
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:17,800
ended up being
one of the main factors in the case
1273
01:12:17,880 --> 01:12:21,080
because it confirmed
everything that was denied.
1274
01:12:21,680 --> 01:12:22,600
And much more.
1275
01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:26,200
MORE CONTACT
BETWEEN YABRÁN AND GOVERNMENT
1276
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:28,680
We requested everyone's phone records,
1277
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:32,840
especially the phones linked
to Alfredo Yabrán as a suspect.
1278
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:35,320
Some of them were released,
and from those that were,
1279
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:40,240
we found a huge amount of calls
to the Ministry of Justice.
1280
01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:44,320
It was discovered
that almost everyone in Menem's cabinet
1281
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:45,840
had contact with Yabrán.
1282
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:50,640
He had calls with district attorneys,
1283
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:53,480
government officials, ministers,
the House of Government…
1284
01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:56,320
It was no longer a case
1285
01:12:56,400 --> 01:13:01,800
in which a businessman
with no political links
1286
01:13:02,480 --> 01:13:04,720
had an issue with journalism.
1287
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:07,120
THE GOVERNMENT COMES CLEAN
ABOUT ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH YABRÁN
1288
01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:09,840
Everybody also knew
1289
01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:14,000
he was close to Menem,
who was the president.
1290
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:16,000
He'd visited the House of Government.
1291
01:13:16,080 --> 01:13:19,440
In fact, during the investigation,
there was a visit as well.
1292
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:24,280
We issued an arrest warrant on June 20th,
1293
01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:26,600
and a few days later, Yabrán was received
1294
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:31,600
by the highest-ranking minister
in the House of Government,
1295
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:33,120
the head of the cabinet.
1296
01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:36,440
Yabrán was received at the Pink House,
1297
01:13:36,520 --> 01:13:41,280
posing with one of those flyers
that said "Don't forget Cabezas,"
1298
01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:46,920
amid protests on the streets
demanding justice.
1299
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:49,560
What they're doing is a slap
in the face to the people.
1300
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:51,960
-A disgrace.
-Are you protesting too?
1301
01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:55,160
-Of course, man.
-Honk!
1302
01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:57,240
These people were in a bubble.
1303
01:13:57,320 --> 01:13:59,960
They'd accept someone who was accused
1304
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:03,160
of the most detrimental crime
towards Argentine democracy
1305
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:04,680
in the House of Government.
1306
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:07,120
And there they endorsed the innocence
1307
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:09,440
of someone under an in-depth investigation
1308
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:11,960
and deeply suspected of guilt.
1309
01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:15,840
Clearly, there was
no other purpose to that meeting
1310
01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:19,480
than to signal to the public
that this was a person
1311
01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:22,560
who was protected
by the national government.
1312
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:24,120
Murderer!
1313
01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:30,040
Son of a bitch!
1314
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,520
-Murderer!
-Murderer!
1315
01:14:37,480 --> 01:14:38,840
RÍOS TESTIFIED AND IS UNDER ARREST
1316
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:43,480
The fact is that, until September,
when Ríos was arrested,
1317
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:46,840
it was never made official
1318
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:50,520
that the court agreed with
our main theory,
1319
01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:54,560
which was a gang
with some relation to Yabrán,
1320
01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:55,920
be it direct or indirect.
1321
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:57,360
…from Buenos Aires Province.
1322
01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:01,160
Gregorio Ríos' permanent presence,
1323
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:04,000
the head of Alfredo Yabrán's security,
1324
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:06,440
in the middle of both contacts,
1325
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:08,240
along with Yabrán's history,
1326
01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:10,160
could be the main theory.
1327
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:12,480
YABRÁN ACKNOWLEDGED
THAT HE SPOKE TO PRELLEZO
1328
01:15:12,560 --> 01:15:15,080
Yabrán acknowledged
that he met with Prellezo.
1329
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:17,040
They asked him why they met.
1330
01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:21,440
"Because this man wanted to sell me
an alarm system for Pinamar,
1331
01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:23,240
so I told him to discuss it with Ríos,
1332
01:15:23,320 --> 01:15:25,760
and he wanted to wish me
a happy new year," and so on.
1333
01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:29,160
Yes, Prellezo acknowledged
having a link with Yabrán.
1334
01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:31,040
You killed Cabezas!
1335
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:34,920
In a meeting he had with Alfredo Yabrán
before summer,
1336
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:37,840
he said he wanted to have a quiet summer,
1337
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:42,840
obviously in reference to what
he considered harassment by the press,
1338
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:44,960
which he'd suffered the previous summer.
1339
01:16:01,800 --> 01:16:03,960
Pieces of evidence had accumulated
1340
01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:08,760
about Yabrán's possible involvement
as the instigator of the crime.
1341
01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:12,920
As the evidence was accumulating,
1342
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:15,440
my impatience, maybe due to being young,
1343
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:19,760
brought me to say,
"Macchi, we have… a lot."
1344
01:16:19,840 --> 01:16:23,640
"It's enough to issue an arrest warrant.
Don't you think?"
1345
01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:26,000
And he said,
"There's always time to arrest him."
1346
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:29,400
We went through a lot of anxiety.
1347
01:16:29,480 --> 01:16:32,920
The case had a lot of plateaus.
1348
01:16:33,440 --> 01:16:35,240
It seemed like it'd never advance.
1349
01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:46,680
Do you think anyone
doesn't want the truth to be known?
1350
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:49,440
I heard it on TV yesterday.
There's some back and forth.
1351
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:51,360
-It seems someone's covering it up.
-Yes.
1352
01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:52,720
-You think so?
-Yes.
1353
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:55,360
-I've told you several times.
-They don't want the truth out?
1354
01:16:55,440 --> 01:16:59,360
The instigator or the mastermind
is working to keep it under wraps.
1355
01:16:59,440 --> 01:17:00,720
So it's a very powerful man.
1356
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:05,800
I'm hoping José Luis' murderers
are arrested.
1357
01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:10,520
When I say "murderers," I mean everyone.
1358
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:15,240
The one who came up with the idea.
Whoever executed it.
1359
01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:18,520
Those who participated. Everyone.
1360
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:21,680
Everybody's saying it.
The whole world's saying it.
1361
01:17:21,760 --> 01:17:25,600
I walk down the street,
and everyone says, "It's Yabrán."
1362
01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:28,880
We were constantly asking for measures,
1363
01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:31,280
insisting Yabrán be arrested,
1364
01:17:31,360 --> 01:17:32,280
investigated,
1365
01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:34,800
and it didn't happen
1366
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:37,680
until Silvia Belawsky came along.
1367
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:46,000
Silvia Belawsky
1368
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:51,280
was, at the time, the wife
of the main suspect, Gustavo Prellezo.
1369
01:17:51,880 --> 01:17:55,800
On May 15th, 1998, she made a decision.
1370
01:17:55,880 --> 01:18:00,800
I don't know what motivated her to do it,
but it must have been difficult.
1371
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:02,960
To our surprise,
1372
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:05,320
as the investigation advanced,
1373
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:09,800
at one point, her defense asked her
to expand her statement.
1374
01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:13,560
When she was going to testify,
1375
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:15,320
I remember perfectly
1376
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:19,280
the anticipation of whether she
was going to talk or not
1377
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:22,960
and what she was going to say
and what information she had.
1378
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:31,960
Since she was Prellezo's wife
1379
01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:34,640
and after doing research on Cabezas,
1380
01:18:36,080 --> 01:18:42,160
we supposed that there was more
to that link, that connection.
1381
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:44,800
I was going to…
1382
01:18:44,880 --> 01:18:46,280
BUENOS AIRES POLICE OFFICER
1383
01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:48,360
…explain a few things.
1384
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:51,960
Well, many things crossed my mind.
1385
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:53,400
And well…
1386
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:57,400
What happened, happened,
and I told them what I knew. Nothing more.
1387
01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:02,280
YABRÁN IS BEHIND EVERYTHING
1388
01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:05,080
She said her husband had told her that.
1389
01:19:07,080 --> 01:19:09,400
That it was a request from Yabrán.
1390
01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:13,080
Gregorio Ríos had asked them
to do that job,
1391
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:15,360
and they had to do it.
1392
01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:20,000
DON'T YOU EVER THINK
OF OPENING YOUR MOUTH
1393
01:19:20,440 --> 01:19:24,760
It clearly showed
Prellezo's relationship with Yabrán.
1394
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:29,120
And very concisely, she made it clear
1395
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:34,400
that the order to attack Cabezas
had come from the businessman.
1396
01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:40,080
And that was maybe
the most important statement
1397
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:44,440
that led to the arrest warrant
for the businessman Yabrán.
1398
01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:48,240
Her testimony was so compelling
1399
01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:52,640
that the judge finally ordered
an arrest warrant.
1400
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:58,960
WARRANT FOR YABRÁN'S ARREST
ORDERED
1401
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:11,000
Raids were carried out,
and they didn't find Yabrán.
1402
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:14,560
When they told me,
"This man is on the run,"
1403
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:18,480
I said, "That can't be. How is he
going to run? He has to testify."
1404
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:21,480
YABRÁN'S HOUSE RAIDED,
BUT HE COULDN'T BE ARRESTED
1405
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:23,240
We wanted to know what happened.
1406
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:25,120
Why had they done this to José Luis?
1407
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:27,080
Why had they done such a thing?
1408
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:30,200
NEW FAILURES IN SEARCH FOR YABRÁN
1409
01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:33,480
At that point, Duhalde called me
and said, "What happened?"
1410
01:20:37,520 --> 01:20:38,800
"I don't know."
1411
01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:40,240
"How is this going to go down?"
1412
01:20:40,320 --> 01:20:42,320
"The police have to find him."
1413
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:44,800
"You're the head of police."
1414
01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:47,440
"You have to go search for him
with the FBI or whatever."
1415
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:50,360
YABRÁN STILL ON THE RUN,
AND INTERPOL IS SEARCHING FOR HIM
1416
01:20:50,440 --> 01:20:53,920
It was impossible that Yabrán,
with the whole country looking for him,
1417
01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:56,960
would be where the raids
were being carried out.
1418
01:20:59,440 --> 01:21:01,600
Anyone would've thought
1419
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:04,720
with his capacity, power, connections,
1420
01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:10,080
he'd be able to hide somewhere
that didn't have an extradition treaty.
1421
01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:15,480
In small towns,
1422
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:18,080
not much time goes by
without getting some information.
1423
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:20,120
We checked every source necessary
1424
01:21:20,200 --> 01:21:23,880
until we heard
Yabrán was at the San Ignacio ranch,
1425
01:21:24,520 --> 01:21:26,880
probably planning how to escape.
1426
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:30,360
I saw movement
1427
01:21:30,880 --> 01:21:33,760
that confirmed Yabrán's presence.
1428
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:35,320
I stayed there all night,
1429
01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:38,960
and the next day, I waited for the police.
1430
01:21:45,640 --> 01:21:48,800
From that moment,
I started to describe what was happening.
1431
01:21:49,400 --> 01:21:53,640
Live from the San Ignacio ranch.
1432
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:57,440
They're looking
for the businessman Alfredo Yabrán.
1433
01:21:58,680 --> 01:22:00,440
I saw many units go out.
1434
01:22:00,520 --> 01:22:02,960
And I started to see
the police get nervous.
1435
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:06,560
So far, some searches have been done,
1436
01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:10,080
which we can see at the ranch
1437
01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:14,360
where Judge Macchi believes
the businessman will be found.
1438
01:22:14,440 --> 01:22:16,960
It was like evidence
that Yabrán was there.
1439
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:18,960
But they didn't see him.
1440
01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:25,640
They searched everything.
Yabrán's suite was locked.
1441
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:30,040
They announced themselves
at that closed door
1442
01:22:30,120 --> 01:22:32,560
and asked if anyone was there.
1443
01:22:34,120 --> 01:22:35,680
They didn't get a response.
1444
01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:37,360
They tried to open the door.
1445
01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:39,400
And when they tried…
1446
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:43,920
they heard a gunshot from inside.
1447
01:22:46,920 --> 01:22:49,120
Right now,
1448
01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:53,400
as breaking news for the whole country,
1449
01:22:53,480 --> 01:22:55,760
we are able to confirm
1450
01:22:55,840 --> 01:23:02,400
that Alfredo Yabrán has shot himself
in the head with a shotgun.
1451
01:23:07,560 --> 01:23:11,720
YABRÁN SHOT HIMSELF
1452
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:15,200
YABRÁN COMMITTED SUICIDE
1453
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:19,520
ALFREDO YABRÁN FOUND DEAD
WIDESPREAD AMAZEMENT AND DISBELIEF
1454
01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:22,080
WAS YABRÁN REALLY THE ONE WHO DIED?
1455
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:27,360
SUICIDE CALLED INTO QUESTION
1456
01:23:27,440 --> 01:23:31,000
First, there was doubt,
because much of the media
1457
01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:35,680
didn't believe it was Yabrán.
They didn't believe any of it.
1458
01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:36,880
I think he's alive.
1459
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:40,160
-Hidden somewhere?
-Yes, for sure.
1460
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:43,760
Many kilometers from here,
on some Caribbean island somewhere.
1461
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:44,800
Under the bed.
1462
01:23:44,880 --> 01:23:46,000
In a septic tank.
1463
01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:48,280
Behind a pile of cash.
1464
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:50,240
It's hard to think
1465
01:23:50,320 --> 01:23:54,000
that someone with so much money
would have killed himself.
1466
01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:57,960
Half of the public said it was a lie.
Yabrán is still alive.
1467
01:23:58,040 --> 01:24:00,560
PEOPLE STILL SPECULATE
ABOUT THE SUICIDE
1468
01:24:00,640 --> 01:24:03,800
A myth was created around Yabrán's death.
1469
01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:05,000
WHAT HAPPENED TO YABRÁN?
1470
01:24:05,080 --> 01:24:07,800
They say someone took Yabrán's place
1471
01:24:07,880 --> 01:24:12,760
so Yabrán could enjoy, I don't know,
some paradise beach who knows where,
1472
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:15,200
far from his family who he loved the most.
1473
01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:18,760
If you ask anyone,
"Do you think Yabrán is dead?"
1474
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:23,880
they'd say, "No, he's sunbathing."
1475
01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:27,440
I didn't think it'd end like that.
1476
01:24:27,520 --> 01:24:29,680
I didn't think so, but it ended like that.
1477
01:24:31,520 --> 01:24:34,240
He made that decision
because he was cornered.
1478
01:24:34,320 --> 01:24:35,360
Cornered.
1479
01:24:41,240 --> 01:24:43,000
Barely 50 people
1480
01:24:43,080 --> 01:24:46,200
surrounded the coffin
containing the businessman's remains.
1481
01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:49,920
How about some respect for the dead!
1482
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:51,600
Is this journalism?
1483
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:53,600
And you want respect for Cabezas!
1484
01:24:53,680 --> 01:24:55,360
Dirty press!
1485
01:24:55,440 --> 01:24:57,040
Cabezas earned our respect!
1486
01:24:57,120 --> 01:24:59,480
-And we respect him.
-Well, I have respect for Yabrán.
1487
01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:02,400
-He earned our respect.
-You don't respect anyone. We're working.
1488
01:25:02,480 --> 01:25:04,040
Cover their cameras.
1489
01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:06,240
-Shut up!
-Careful with the cameras, ma'am.
1490
01:25:06,320 --> 01:25:11,320
Another phase ends
in the most shocking news story of late.
1491
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:13,600
The disappearance of a powerful man
1492
01:25:13,680 --> 01:25:16,680
who decided not to face justice on earth.
1493
01:25:17,440 --> 01:25:19,800
YABRÁN WROTE THE ACCUSING LETTERS
A DAY BEFORE KILLING HIMSELF
1494
01:25:19,880 --> 01:25:22,480
In one of the two letters he left,
1495
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:24,720
he incriminated two politicians.
1496
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:28,080
Your Honor, in the face
of the huge amount of condemnation
1497
01:25:28,160 --> 01:25:30,600
led by the great
Director Domingo F. Cavallo,
1498
01:25:30,680 --> 01:25:33,520
in association
with the unscrupulous politicians
1499
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:37,040
committed to making Duhalde
owner of the truth and the country…
1500
01:25:37,560 --> 01:25:39,880
The letter was dated the day before
1501
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:42,320
and signed on top
so there would be no doubts left.
1502
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:45,160
He makes some political references
to two people…
1503
01:25:45,240 --> 01:25:46,600
ALFREDO YABRÁN'S ATTORNEY
1504
01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:49,920
…he continually had problems with.
1505
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:52,120
He finishes by saying
he's absolutely innocent
1506
01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:54,000
of the crime against José Luis Cabezas.
1507
01:25:54,080 --> 01:25:56,520
Why do you think Yabrán
made such a decision?
1508
01:25:56,600 --> 01:25:59,000
Because he had dignity.
He couldn't have been more cornered.
1509
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:01,480
He has kids. He has family,
just like the Cabezas family.
1510
01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:04,680
He didn't let himself get handcuffed,
especially not by the damned governor.
1511
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:05,880
It was all set up by him.
1512
01:26:05,960 --> 01:26:12,480
But we want to know
who killed your colleague,
1513
01:26:13,200 --> 01:26:15,200
Mr. José Luis Cabezas,
1514
01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:18,200
and what the motives were
1515
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:21,840
that led to Mr. Yabrán taking his life.
1516
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:23,280
It's all being investigated.
1517
01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:24,280
CONGRESSWOMAN
1518
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:27,960
This is something
that will turn this story
1519
01:26:28,040 --> 01:26:30,760
into one of the darkest chapters
in national history.
1520
01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:35,800
The truth is,
I was very skeptical at first.
1521
01:26:36,440 --> 01:26:39,680
Everyone said,
"A guy like Yabrán wouldn't kill himself."
1522
01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:42,200
After investigating the subject,
1523
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:44,320
talking with witnesses,
1524
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:48,360
and seeing and investigating the changes
in his environment after the crime,
1525
01:26:48,440 --> 01:26:51,200
I ended up convinced
that he committed suicide.
1526
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:53,720
The question was why.
1527
01:26:57,960 --> 01:27:03,240
Yabrán commits suicide simply
because he was about to be arrested.
1528
01:27:05,320 --> 01:27:11,080
That doesn't mean necessarily
he killed himself because he was guilty.
1529
01:27:12,360 --> 01:27:14,840
Menem's government defended
1530
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:20,600
Alfredo Yabrán's innocence
until the very end.
1531
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:24,720
It seems clear
that somebody stopped protecting him.
1532
01:27:26,440 --> 01:27:28,520
Someone said, "Your time has come."
1533
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:31,560
There was no way to make people understand
1534
01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:33,800
that rich people can shoot themselves too.
1535
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:38,560
Powerful people
are also cornered at times.
1536
01:27:39,440 --> 01:27:41,920
Imagining himself in handcuffs
1537
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:43,520
in front of everyone,
1538
01:27:43,600 --> 01:27:46,360
in prison in Buenos Aires Province,
1539
01:27:46,920 --> 01:27:49,680
a province governed by Eduardo Duhalde,
1540
01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:53,280
was humiliating and dangerous.
1541
01:27:56,240 --> 01:27:59,080
I lean towards the suicide theory
1542
01:27:59,160 --> 01:28:02,880
linked with a particular
psychological profile like Yabrán's.
1543
01:28:14,480 --> 01:28:16,720
DECEMBER 14, 1999
1544
01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:19,160
It seems like Dolores
has gone back in time.
1545
01:28:19,760 --> 01:28:24,160
The city is again full of police cars
and penitentiary correctional officers
1546
01:28:24,240 --> 01:28:27,480
like at the beginning of the case
three years ago.
1547
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:32,440
What went through Norma and José's minds,
1548
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:34,800
sitting in the same little room
1549
01:28:34,880 --> 01:28:37,840
as their son's killers,
1550
01:28:37,920 --> 01:28:39,720
waiting for a sentence?
1551
01:28:42,720 --> 01:28:46,520
Everyone knew the public
1552
01:28:46,600 --> 01:28:48,560
was waiting for this to be solved
1553
01:28:49,280 --> 01:28:51,960
and to be solved
as thoroughly as possible.
1554
01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:53,280
CABEZAS MURDER TRIAL
1555
01:28:53,360 --> 01:28:56,240
Please, I ask to have the floor
because you just spoke about me.
1556
01:28:56,320 --> 01:28:57,280
Yes, now--
1557
01:28:57,360 --> 01:28:58,920
-Saying I could…
-Yes.
1558
01:28:59,720 --> 01:29:02,160
It was shocking
1559
01:29:02,240 --> 01:29:05,080
having them face to face.
1560
01:29:05,720 --> 01:29:09,400
There was one staring at me,
challenging me, I remember.
1561
01:29:09,480 --> 01:29:11,480
General Madariaga, under the same name,
1562
01:29:11,560 --> 01:29:13,160
Buenos Aires Province,
1563
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:17,040
on January 25, 1997,
1564
01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:19,920
at 8:20 a.m…
1565
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:21,520
There was an empty chair,
1566
01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:25,640
because, unfortunately,
we didn't have the mastermind
1567
01:29:26,440 --> 01:29:29,440
who had ordered his head of security
1568
01:29:29,520 --> 01:29:33,320
to get rid of all the journalists
in the summer.
1569
01:29:33,400 --> 01:29:34,560
Alfredo Yabrán.
1570
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:38,480
It's been established that inside the pit,
1571
01:29:38,560 --> 01:29:41,600
facing away from the road,
there's a vehicle.
1572
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:43,880
A vehicle that's been burned completely.
1573
01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:45,600
We were looking for explanations
1574
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:47,920
and those responsible
for the atrocious crime
1575
01:29:48,520 --> 01:29:50,920
against José Luis Cabezas.
1576
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:53,440
And the smell of fuel was present.
1577
01:29:53,520 --> 01:29:57,440
What they did to him, the process,
how they treated him and burned him…
1578
01:29:57,520 --> 01:29:59,200
We wanted an explanation.
1579
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:06,440
CHAMBER OF APPEALS
1580
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:09,200
Let the record show
the account of the witness Michi.
1581
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:14,560
In the early morning of January 25th,
1582
01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:17,800
we were covering Andreani's party.
1583
01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:23,760
The logical thing would've been to leave
that party together with José Luis.
1584
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:27,600
I keep having the same thought,
1585
01:30:27,680 --> 01:30:29,480
that if we had been together,
1586
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:32,040
we would've both ended up like that.
1587
01:30:32,120 --> 01:30:33,760
I have no doubt about it.
1588
01:30:38,960 --> 01:30:41,720
What they describe
is that they were hanging out at a party,
1589
01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:44,840
but they didn't kidnap Cabezas there,
1590
01:30:44,920 --> 01:30:47,040
which is what we all assumed had happened.
1591
01:30:47,120 --> 01:30:48,600
They followed him.
1592
01:30:48,680 --> 01:30:50,440
They went towards José Luis' door,
1593
01:30:50,520 --> 01:30:53,600
and when José Luis got home,
they intercepted him,
1594
01:30:54,320 --> 01:30:57,040
with guns, obviously.
They grabbed him from behind.
1595
01:30:57,120 --> 01:31:00,040
They hit him
and put him inside our vehicle,
1596
01:31:00,120 --> 01:31:01,760
the white Ford Fiesta.
1597
01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:07,320
He was no more than seven or eight meters
away from his wife.
1598
01:31:07,400 --> 01:31:10,080
Maybe if he had shouted
1599
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:12,680
or given some kind of warning
1600
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:17,480
or some signal that he was in danger,
his wife would've seen him.
1601
01:31:25,360 --> 01:31:29,760
They took him along the road
that goes to the pit in General Madariaga.
1602
01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:36,440
We knew that José Luis' body
had a lot of injuries,
1603
01:31:36,520 --> 01:31:38,600
meaning he was evidently
tortured on the way.
1604
01:31:38,680 --> 01:31:39,800
They hit him, beat him.
1605
01:31:44,840 --> 01:31:48,600
Prellezo gets out of the car,
in charge of the whole operation.
1606
01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:50,400
They get José Luis out.
1607
01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:05,840
Prellezo puts him against the wall
in the back of the pit
1608
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:08,080
and shoots him twice in the head.
1609
01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:19,920
After shooting him,
1610
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:22,800
he also decides to set the car on fire
1611
01:32:23,720 --> 01:32:26,480
in the same pit where the car was found.
1612
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:41,720
Gustavo Prellezo coordinated
the kidnapping of José Luis.
1613
01:32:42,920 --> 01:32:47,400
He did it on orders from Gregorio Ríos,
head of Yabrán's security,
1614
01:32:47,480 --> 01:32:49,000
and Alfredo Yabrán.
1615
01:32:56,680 --> 01:32:59,040
When they exited the pit,
1616
01:32:59,120 --> 01:33:03,360
the Los Hornos gang
mentioned a call Prellezo made.
1617
01:33:03,440 --> 01:33:06,160
Prellezo apparently called Luna
on the phone
1618
01:33:06,680 --> 01:33:08,280
and said, "Happy Birthday."
1619
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:12,800
Curiously, it wasn't Luna's birthday.
1620
01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:17,080
I assume it meant "mission accomplished."
1621
01:33:30,360 --> 01:33:31,560
Good day.
1622
01:33:34,040 --> 01:33:38,320
On February 2, 2000,
the sentence finally came.
1623
01:33:38,400 --> 01:33:40,000
All the killers were sentenced.
1624
01:33:40,640 --> 01:33:45,000
Gustavo Daniel Prellezo is sentenced
to life in prison without parole.
1625
01:33:45,080 --> 01:33:46,000
Gregorio Ríos,
1626
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:47,800
as instigator of the crimes…
1627
01:33:47,880 --> 01:33:50,040
They were life sentences.
1628
01:33:50,120 --> 01:33:53,120
Life sentences without parole
for all those who were police officers
1629
01:33:53,200 --> 01:33:55,840
and life in prison for the civilians.
1630
01:33:55,920 --> 01:33:58,440
The maximum penalty in the penal code
1631
01:33:58,520 --> 01:34:01,080
was given to the former police officers
Gustavo Prellezo,
1632
01:34:01,160 --> 01:34:03,520
Sergio Camaratta, and Aníbal Luna.
1633
01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:07,200
The three judges didn't care
who pulled the trigger.
1634
01:34:07,720 --> 01:34:09,560
They cared that they had all been there,
1635
01:34:09,640 --> 01:34:11,560
meaning they all participated
in the crime.
1636
01:34:11,640 --> 01:34:14,320
LIFE SENTENCE FOR CABEZAS' KILLERS
1637
01:34:14,400 --> 01:34:16,800
And I started crying. It really hurt.
1638
01:34:17,320 --> 01:34:21,280
Not only was I angry, I was heartbroken.
1639
01:34:21,880 --> 01:34:25,000
But I'm very angry, and I hate them.
1640
01:34:26,200 --> 01:34:28,720
Murderers!
1641
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:35,000
You got what you deserved!
1642
01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:44,360
Argentina!
1643
01:34:44,440 --> 01:34:46,160
DECEMBER 1999
1644
01:34:46,240 --> 01:34:49,440
In December 1999, the elections take place
1645
01:34:49,520 --> 01:34:52,680
and neither Duhalde nor Menem wins.
1646
01:34:53,360 --> 01:34:54,600
De la Rúa wins.
1647
01:34:54,680 --> 01:34:57,520
Don Fernando de la Rúa.
1648
01:34:59,840 --> 01:35:02,640
I think the truth
about how Cabezas was killed
1649
01:35:02,720 --> 01:35:05,680
changed the meaning of politics
that was to come.
1650
01:35:08,840 --> 01:35:12,400
Even though it was a criminal act,
1651
01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:14,080
its importance
1652
01:35:14,840 --> 01:35:17,960
transformed it into a key political case.
1653
01:35:18,440 --> 01:35:21,000
That was the end
of the governor's political career.
1654
01:35:21,560 --> 01:35:24,520
He didn't only lose the election,
but he lost himself.
1655
01:35:24,600 --> 01:35:28,360
He couldn't continue
his political aspirations.
1656
01:35:34,640 --> 01:35:37,920
The public began to see the corruption
1657
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:42,880
and the extent of sleaziness
in political authority.
1658
01:35:43,880 --> 01:35:47,200
And they also realized
how defenseless they were.
1659
01:35:47,280 --> 01:35:50,520
Justice!
1660
01:35:50,600 --> 01:35:52,840
-Cabezas!
-Here!
1661
01:35:52,920 --> 01:35:56,040
The protests
for the crime against José Luis
1662
01:35:56,120 --> 01:35:59,560
became something different.
1663
01:36:01,320 --> 01:36:05,720
It became a representation
of all the injustices
1664
01:36:05,800 --> 01:36:08,040
seen in Argentine society.
1665
01:36:13,640 --> 01:36:15,520
Before the murder of Cabezas,
1666
01:36:15,600 --> 01:36:17,920
other terrible acts had transpired,
1667
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:20,840
like the murder of María Soledad Morales,
1668
01:36:23,640 --> 01:36:27,000
the attack on the Israeli embassy
and the AMIA,
1669
01:36:29,240 --> 01:36:31,280
the murder of the soldier Carrasco,
1670
01:36:32,520 --> 01:36:34,120
the explosion in Río Tercero,
1671
01:36:34,760 --> 01:36:36,800
the death of Carlos Menem, Jr.
1672
01:36:36,880 --> 01:36:39,600
under very sinister circumstances.
1673
01:36:39,680 --> 01:36:45,880
All that became
the straw that broke the camel's back,
1674
01:36:45,960 --> 01:36:48,920
and the public said, "Enough."
1675
01:36:50,080 --> 01:36:52,360
After Cabezas,
there were many other instances
1676
01:36:52,440 --> 01:36:55,360
where the public took to the streets
demanding and asking
1677
01:36:55,440 --> 01:36:59,680
to change the outcome of these events.
Several times.
1678
01:37:03,440 --> 01:37:10,080
DECEMBER 2001
1679
01:37:13,240 --> 01:37:16,880
DON'T FORGET CABEZAS
1680
01:37:18,440 --> 01:37:23,480
The crime against José Luis Cabezas
highlighted all of Argentina's ailments.
1681
01:37:29,720 --> 01:37:32,280
In light of the events,
the sentences weren't light,
1682
01:37:32,360 --> 01:37:35,120
but the enforcement
of the sentences was light,
1683
01:37:35,200 --> 01:37:38,640
because the killers
ended up getting out early.
1684
01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:42,920
A few years later, a shameful ruling
1685
01:37:43,000 --> 01:37:45,760
from the Buenos Aires Province
Annulment Court
1686
01:37:45,840 --> 01:37:47,080
reduced the sentences,
1687
01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:51,280
and after that,
in little time, seven or eight years,
1688
01:37:51,360 --> 01:37:53,120
they started to get out,
1689
01:37:53,200 --> 01:37:54,800
and they're all free today.
1690
01:37:55,320 --> 01:37:57,840
They're a danger to society.
1691
01:37:57,920 --> 01:38:01,920
DON'T FORGET CABEZAS
1692
01:38:10,600 --> 01:38:11,800
Never again.
1693
01:38:13,440 --> 01:38:17,080
May no more parents suffer
for their children like we do.
1694
01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:21,360
Sometimes I get the feeling
he's going to open the door and say,
1695
01:38:21,440 --> 01:38:24,520
"Mommy, I wasn't the one they burned.
I'm here."
1696
01:38:27,480 --> 01:38:29,960
I would've liked for José Luis to be known
1697
01:38:30,840 --> 01:38:33,600
for who he was.
1698
01:38:36,440 --> 01:38:38,440
And not for what happened.
1699
01:38:40,200 --> 01:38:41,400
Not for this.
1700
01:38:44,560 --> 01:38:49,200
He never could've imagined
what his death would cause.
1701
01:38:50,320 --> 01:38:53,240
He was a normal guy.
He did the pieces we asked him to
1702
01:38:53,320 --> 01:38:56,400
and gave his best.
1703
01:38:56,480 --> 01:38:59,600
He did his job and things
the best he could.
1704
01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:01,760
That's the memory I have of him.
1705
01:39:03,760 --> 01:39:07,520
The memory of José Luis Cabezas
is sort of like
1706
01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:10,840
background music
that goes with me through life.
1707
01:39:13,000 --> 01:39:18,160
Every day of my life, even if just for
a minute, I remember José Luis Cabezas.
1708
01:39:19,200 --> 01:39:21,880
He's not a hero or a saint.
1709
01:39:23,160 --> 01:39:24,480
He's a lesson.
1710
01:39:25,400 --> 01:39:30,160
A sense
of what's right and what isn't right,
1711
01:39:30,240 --> 01:39:31,680
like a sense
1712
01:39:32,200 --> 01:39:35,840
of what practicing journalism means
and what it's for.
1713
01:39:35,920 --> 01:39:37,120
For us journalists,
1714
01:39:37,200 --> 01:39:39,280
who go in and out of people's lives,
1715
01:39:39,360 --> 01:39:40,680
when something happens,
1716
01:39:40,760 --> 01:39:42,800
when there's an anniversary,
1717
01:39:43,360 --> 01:39:44,360
that's one thing.
1718
01:39:44,440 --> 01:39:47,800
When you're there,
close to a family suffering,
1719
01:39:47,880 --> 01:39:50,320
you realize that what's news to us
1720
01:39:50,400 --> 01:39:52,480
is an everyday tragedy for them.
1721
01:39:55,320 --> 01:39:58,400
And it's the missing plate on the table…
1722
01:40:01,560 --> 01:40:04,320
the clothes his parents kept for years
1723
01:40:04,920 --> 01:40:06,200
to remember him.
1724
01:40:07,960 --> 01:40:13,160
It's that horrible absence
that's in their everyday life.
1725
01:40:14,360 --> 01:40:15,760
It's not just news.
1726
01:40:15,840 --> 01:40:17,840
It's people. It's stories.
1727
01:40:17,920 --> 01:40:20,000
And it could be any of us.
1728
01:40:22,000 --> 01:40:24,200
For those who loved José Luis,
1729
01:40:25,160 --> 01:40:28,720
obviously, for us,
his absence hurts a lot.
1730
01:40:29,760 --> 01:40:31,480
But for his killers,
1731
01:40:31,560 --> 01:40:33,840
his presence is always going to hurt.
1732
01:40:51,640 --> 01:40:57,560
MONUMENT TO JOSÉ LUIS CABEZAS
PIT IN GENERAL MADARIAGA
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01:40:58,720 --> 01:41:00,920
The Los Hornos gang,
Sergio González, José Luis Auge,
1734
01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:04,320
Horacio Braga, and Héctor Retana,
were sentenced to life in prison.
1735
01:41:04,400 --> 01:41:06,440
They got out between 2004 and 2007,
1736
01:41:06,520 --> 01:41:10,120
taking advantage of
the sentence-reduction law known as "2x1."
1737
01:41:10,200 --> 01:41:11,960
Retana died in jail in 2001.
1738
01:41:14,800 --> 01:41:16,560
Gregorio Ríos, Police Chief Alberto Gómez,
1739
01:41:16,640 --> 01:41:19,120
and officers Gustavo Prellezo,
Aníbal Luna, and Sergio Camaratta
1740
01:41:19,200 --> 01:41:20,800
got life without parole.
1741
01:41:20,880 --> 01:41:24,360
They received different criminal benefits,
and all were eventually released.
1742
01:41:24,440 --> 01:41:26,960
Officer Sergio Camaratta
died in Dolores Prison in 2015.
1743
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:30,120
Former police officer Silvia Belawsky
was exonerated
1744
01:41:30,200 --> 01:41:32,040
but sentenced to four years in prison
1745
01:41:32,120 --> 01:41:34,320
for fraud linked to the vehicle
used in the crime.
1746
01:41:34,400 --> 01:41:37,000
She served her sentence
and was released in February 2000.
1747
01:41:38,280 --> 01:41:40,320
While serving time,
Prellezo got a law degree.
1748
01:41:40,400 --> 01:41:42,560
In 2017, he was released on parole.
1749
01:41:42,640 --> 01:41:44,800
The Cabezas family's persistent complaints
1750
01:41:44,880 --> 01:41:47,160
have prevented him
from working professionally
1751
01:41:47,240 --> 01:41:49,120
until his sentence has been fully served.
1752
01:41:53,440 --> 01:41:55,960
Twenty-five years after
the crime against José Luis Cabezas,
1753
01:41:56,040 --> 01:41:58,960
none of those involved in the murder
are in prison.
1754
01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:02,440
His family continues to fight
for his memory and against impunity.
1755
01:42:04,920 --> 01:42:11,280
IN MEMORY OF JOSÉ LUIS CABEZAS
1961 - 1997