28 years of the murder of José Luis Cabezas. Each anniversary of his death, in these almost three decades is special. The days before and after January 25, the date of the crime, many return on the figure of a photographer of this magazine to remember the dark moments of Argentine history, but also the great pillars of journalism: the drive to inform the way More objective and neutral that can be, especially telling all that the power, political or economic, does not want it to be known.
The plot behind the crime of heads is precisely that. On the one hand, who was then one of the richest and most powerful people in the countryAlfredo Yabrán, And on the other, a graphic reporter determined to give light in that darkness.
Every year it is honored to heads with this tonic. But it is also true that Each anniversary has its particularity, its own context, which makes the photographer’s memory change intensity, but meaning. This January finds journalism in a delicate moment. You could say that at risk. The Milei government chose this profession as one of its great enemies.
And to the daily disqualifications, with an aggressiveness tenor that an Argentine president had never had, he added threats and squeezes. Again, nothing casual, the favorite white of these attacks is this editorial, which keeps four judgments with the government at the time of this edition.
The anniversary of Cabezasthe only journalist killed in democracyIt serves to remember why power usually ends up with this trade and why some things, despite the years, do not change. And it also has another meaning, perhaps the most important: it is a reminder to never lower your arms. “
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