Historias que no nos contaron

A specific assassination, some failed ... dramatic lives, others tragic, of relevant people from Uruguay, and one of Argentina, are the stories that are told in these pages. Silva Grucci goes further: he shows us the social perception of the issues he deals with. We can see, for example, how a climate of lynching is created around a president finally murdered or how he idolizes a compulsive scammer. But the main contribution of the author comes from his inquisitive look on the official stories: the data that are minimized, the information that is hidden, the facts that are magnified or diminished according to the predominant interest of the moment. The author puts his magnifying glass on Lorenzo Latorre, Máximo Santos, the architect Meano and his passionate drama, the attack against Batlle and Ordóñez in 1904, the con artist Irma Avegno, the communist deputy Mibelli and his libelous attacks against bourgeois morality, Gabriel Terra attacked in 1935 by Dr. Bernardo García and, finally, on the murder of Cukurs by the Mossad.