Fernando Báez Sosa, son of Paraguayan immigrants, was killed by men who screamed racist slurs as they kicked him to death
from Europe in the 19th and 20th century shaped a mythical identity of a homogenous – predominantly white – society. But Argentina’s racial makeup has always been much more diverse. And the patterns of racial privilege and discrimination based on skin colour never went away.
“Racism, not just in Argentina, but across Latin America, is a topic that is timidly debated and then it disappears,” said Mamani, who is a member of the anti-racism collective Identidad Marron, composed of of Indigenous descendants. But other narratives of empathy which emerged during the trial were also telling, he said. The press was full of stories about the lives of the rugby players, their conditions in jail and their life plans dashed by the guilty sentences.
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