Wednesday, January 25, 2023 | 12:45 p.m.
Twenty-six years after the crime of José Luis Cabezas, his relatives and colleagues will pay tributes in different parts of the country to remember him. The photojournalist was kidnapped, tortured and murdered during the early hours of January 25, 1997, a year after taking the photo that put a face on businessman Alfredo Yabrán, one of the most powerful men in the country at the time.
Where will be the tribute to José Luis cabezas
The tributes will begin, starting at 11, at the monolith in front of the Pinamar bus terminal, located on Bunge avenue, at the entrance to the spa city. Then, at 7:00 p.m., the events will continue in the cellar located at kilometer 385 of Provincial Route 11, at the height of the Buenos Aires district of General Madariaga, where the body of the photographer was found burned inside a Ford Fiesta vehicle.
For its part, the Association of Graphic Reporters of the Argentine Republic (Argra), together with the Argentine Federation of Press Workers (Fatpren), and the Buenos Aires Press Union (Sipreba), will hold an act, at 11, at the headquarters located at Venezuela 1433, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Cristóbal.
Case of José Luis Cabezas
The death of José Luis Cabezas marked a before and after in Argentine journalism. The photojournalist is remembered as the first press worker who died as a result of his work in Noticias Magazine since the return of democracy in 1983.
A year before his murder, he had taken a photo of Yabrán, the owner of OCA, on a beach in Pinamar. Something that, according to a judicial investigation, the businessman was not willing to forgive. Everyone knew him, but hardly anyone had seen his face before. “Taking a photo of me is like shooting myself in the head,” he said.
Hours later, his body was found burned with methyl alcohol inside the car. The photographer had his hands cuffed and two rounds from a 32-caliber handgun lodged in his skull. When he was assassinated, he was 36 years old and had a little daughter.
The first trial for the crime of Cabezas took place in January 2000, in the same Dolores court where today the rugbiers are being tried for the murder of Fernando Báez Sosa.
Meanwhile, the postal businessman never suffered a penalty: in May 1998 he committed suicide with a shotgun in a ranch located in the province of Entre Ríos, where he was hiding from an arrest warrant issued by the federal judge, José Luis Macchi, who He accused him of being the intellectual author of the Cabezas crime.
🔴 Don’t forget about Heads
📌 26 years have passed since the crime of José Luis Cabezas, the photographer was shot dead and his body burned inside the car they used to cover the season in Pinamar for taking a photograph of businessman Alfredo Yabrán. pic.twitter.com/DNpkHj6CqD
– IP news (@_IPNoticias) January 25, 2023
