Pedro Algorta, attorney, showed me the big record
the murder of two women. The double crime was
a knife, in late 1982 in a suburb of Montevideo.
The defendant, Alma Di Agosto, had confessed. wore
prey a year, and seemed doomed to rot in
cárcel.Según for life in the usual, the policemen
had been raped and tortured. After a month of continuous
beatings, had started several confessions.
Di Alma Confessions of August did not much resemble
each other, as if she had committed the murder of
very different ways. In each confession was
different characters, picturesque ghost with no name or address,
it becomes electric shocks to someone in fruitful
novelist, and in all cases, the author demonstrated the agility
a Olympic athlete, the muscles of a
fuerzuda fair and skill of a professional killer.
But what was surprising was the detail:
in each confession, the accused described accurately pinpoint
clothes, gestures, scenes, situations, objects ...
Alma Di August was blind.
His neighbors, who knew and loved her, were convinced
that she was guilty:
- Why? - Asked the lawyer.
- Because what the papers say.
- But newspapers lie - said the lawyer.
- It also says the radio - the neighbors explained
- And the TV!
Eduardo Galeano
"The Book of Embraces"
Siglo XXI, 1989
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