Who was José Luis Cabezas? True story of Netflix's The Photographer: Murder In Pinamar
dailystar.co.ukNetflix delves into the murder of an Argentine photojournalist in 1997.The film investigates the killing of José Luis Cabezas, which caused deep shock in Argentina at the time.
The documentary, titled The Photographer: Murder in Pinamar, probes the murder of Cabezas and attempts to untangle the web of corruption and cronyism that lay behind it.His killing caused a major political scandal, involving many of the country’s leading figures.Directed by Angelo Hartmann and produced by Vanessa Ragone, the film follows their earlier true crime series Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta?, which debuted on Netflix in 2020.But just who was José Luis Cabezas?José Luis Cabezas was an Argentine photojournalist who was murdered in 1997, and whose killing prompted a huge scandal implicating numerous senior politicians, police officers and businessmen.Cabezas worked for Noticias, one of Argentina’s leading current affairs magazines.In February 1996, Cabezas took and published a photograph of Alfredo Yabrán, a postal service tycoon, striding along the beach at the coastal resort of Pinamar.Prior to this, Yabrán’s photograph had never appeared in the Argentine press, and so Cabezas’ photograph revealed his face to the public for the first time.Yabrán was notorious for the opaque nature of his business interests - he was accused of disguising his ownership of large firms by using proxies - and his close relationships with top politicians.He was particularly close to Carlos Menem, Argentina’s president from 1989 to 1999.Menem had first been elected on a left-wing policy platform, but swiftly abandoned it and instead chose to privatise a series of government-owned firms, bringing him into close contact with business figures.He was later.
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