“You know too much” as a student is an accomplishment, as a journalist is a death sentence

In this story I found it a bit confusing that it is divided in two parts, first we can infer that Aldama by giving money to Anahi is “bribing” her (buying her silence) or as we know an excessive show of macho and classist power and we can believe that Aldama murdered Larry in front of the “crazy woman”.

In the second part, the journalist Renzi is in charge of publishing the news, with his high academic level, he realizes after studying Anahi’s “babbling” that in reality the real murderer is Almada and not Antunez, but his editor-in-chief recommends him that what the police say is the truth and that he should not say the opposite for his own good. He still dares to publish the truth leaving us as readers wondering if something bad happened to him and realizing that the first part is the article he wrote. 

The author is referring to the corruption within the police in Argentina, journalists who try to change the country with the truth end up dead, the example is given that a person with connections, money and high rank is untouchable and can get away with it, Atúnez will spend his whole life in jail and Almada does not have a single worry. 

At the end we realize that Renzi did not care and still published the article. Maybe he is either very naive or very brave, sadly telling the truth should not be considered a feat of bravery but in a country sunk in corruption, the truth cannot even cross your mind. 

 

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