THE CASE
In January 2020, Fernando Báez Sosa, an 18-year-old law student and son of Paraguayan immigrants, was beaten to death by a group of rugby players outside a nightclub in Villa Gesell. Phones filmed almost all of it.
The trial became the most-watched in modern Argentine history, and a national reckoning with class, race, group violence and juvenile sentencing. Five of the attackers received life sentences.
IN CONTEXT
CultureThe rugby club, the summer town, and the violence nobody wanted to name.
MediaA murder with footage — and a trial the whole country watched live.
PowerClass, race, and whose sons get the benefit of the doubt.
The systemLife sentences for young men — the mirror image of the Blumberg debate.
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