00:00The story of Maria Cajabi, who after so long, a girl who disappears in 2011,
00:05now there is a detainee, it is the truck driver who saw her for the last time, right?
00:10Exactly, that's what the justice considers, and we are seeing Hector Romero, this 71-year-old man,
00:16who changed his statement at least three times.
00:21The justice put its eye on him, began to look for more details to take him to what was
00:27the detention of this man the day before yesterday.
00:31Finally, yesterday he presented himself before the judge, the federal judge of Salta,
00:37Dr. Mariela Jim茅nez. First he said that he would not testify,
00:42then he spoke with his lawyer in an intermediate room and returned about his steps,
00:47and said, well, yes, I'm going to testify. He reassured, he had told her that in three different places
00:54he had left her, but in three different hearings, as a witness, always, right?
00:59That's what obviously got him to put his eye on him, as we said, regarding this.
01:04Let's listen to the prosecutor, Dr. Eduardo Villalba, who is the prosecutor who accuses him
01:09directly of qualified homicide and caused the body to disappear, that's what he said.
01:15Well, he has been charged with qualified homicide, against, under the influence of Maria Caj,
01:21that was the accusation that the judge gave him, Dr. Mariela Jim茅nez.
01:25Well, the theory of the case of the Public Prosecutor's Office
01:30is not only that it is the last person who sees Maria alive, but that it is the person
01:35who raises her, and in our way of seeing it, from the path, from the path S
01:41to Joaqu铆n D铆az Gonz谩lez, due to circumstances that will have to be clarified,
01:49he took Maria's life and caused the body to disappear.
01:52That is the accusation that was made to him.
01:54And how did he defend himself about that?
01:56They are deductive evidence, of analysis.
01:59Contundent evidence will be the product of the investigation.
02:03What we have today is the possibility that this happened.
02:07Possibility is required to investigate.
02:09Anyway, he is arrested, and that conclusion is reached
02:14through the impact of antennas, at that moment,
02:21which show that the truck did not make the trip on the usual route,
02:28it took that day much longer than other times, back and forth,
02:33and also of inconsistency and different statements.
02:37In turn, throughout all these years, what was being worked on is that
02:42the rest of Maria Cash's sightings were not real.
02:47Well, there is the prosecutor, right?
02:50I mean, recovering a little the evidence, Javi, that there is,
02:53regarding the truck driver, right?
02:54The prosecutor is convinced.
02:56For the first time, someone is convinced of this.
02:58Because until now, it was not known exactly.
03:01Today, on the network, with Paulo Vilauto, we talk about other issues,
03:04but also about the issue linked to Maria Cash, with Juan Manuel Urtubey,
03:08who at that time was the governor.
03:11He said, well, no, I don't know what happened, I don't want to venture,
03:14because this is federal justice.
03:16But he was the governor of a province in which a woman,
03:19from here, from the city of Buenos Aires,
03:21on a journey that went to Jujuy, disappeared.
03:24The police investigated, the police is high at the moment,
03:27investigated, the justice, the investigation was great for them.
03:31The federal justice had to intervene.
03:33But the federal justice, let's say, apparently,
03:37according to what the prosecutor says,
03:39gave a crime in the place.
03:42Look, let me...
03:43Not for the purposes, for example, of human trafficking.
03:45No, no, no, no, no.
03:46The issue is where the body is.
03:47Exactly.
03:48Well, Maria Jos茅 Tonini is a colleague,
03:50is a colleague there from Salta, from Voces Cr铆ticas.
03:53Maria Jos茅, how are you?
03:55Thank you for waiting for us.
03:57Well, I imagine the great commotion that is being experienced there in the province,
04:00well, that we are all experiencing,
04:02for a case that we have followed very closely,
04:06that we have understood a lot over time.
04:09A lot of time has passed since the disappearance of Maria Cash.
04:12How are you, Maria Jos茅?
04:14Hello, guys, good morning. How are you?
04:16Well, first of all, thank you for the space.
04:18Also, well, to introduce myself again.
04:20I am Maria Jos茅, journalist from the newspaper Voces Cr铆ticas,
04:23from here, from the province of Salta.
04:25Well, in the newspaper we carry an exhaustive investigation
04:29and we gave it a huge importance,
04:31which is actually worth it,
04:33the disappearance of the young Maria Cash.
04:36Well, here in Salta, logically, it is the subject of the moment,
04:39because after 13 years, the investigation is back
04:42in the eye of the storm, we could say.
04:45Well, nothing, the truth is that everything is very strange.
04:48People wonder what is going on,
04:50why after 13 years,
04:52that this young 29-year-old designer disappeared,
04:55disappeared, sorry,
04:57why is it being investigated again in this way
05:01and she didn't do it, actually,
05:0313 years ago,
05:05according to the Saltonian justice,
05:07logically, the case never stopped being activated,
05:10but logically in the previous years
05:12it was not given the same importance.
05:14Well, to talk a little bit and contextualize
05:17about this topic,
05:19you have to take into account that Maria Cash was,
05:22well, is, because we don't know what she was yet.
05:25A woman, at that time, 29 years old,
05:29heading to the province of San Salvador de Jujuy,
05:32here in the Argentine north.
05:34She left on July 4, 2011,
05:38to San Salvador de Jujuy,
05:40from the Retiro bus terminal,
05:43there in the province of Buenos Aires.
05:45Maria Jose?
05:46Logically, yes, yes.
05:48How are you, Javier D铆az?
05:50Let's see, you live there
05:52and you already know this case, among others, right?
05:55Salta has had the subject of, well,
05:58murder cases, also at the time.
06:00An emblematic case, too, and regrettable.
06:03Can we believe the justice now?
06:05Do you think that, let's say,
06:07you who follow the cases there,
06:09who know them, are now on the firm track,
06:12or are they very weak?
06:14Let's see.
06:16Do you want my personal opinion
06:18or do you want the opinion that is being made,
06:20well, within the journalistic sphere here in Salta?
06:22Both, yours as a journalist
06:24and what people think there.
06:27Let's see, particularly,
06:29I personally think
06:31that it took a long time
06:33to carry out an investigation
06:35because at 13 years old it is very difficult
06:37to have traces again
06:39that are really coherent
06:41and precise
06:43to know what really happened
06:45with Maria Cash.
06:47This woman disappeared
06:49and was seen for the last time
06:51on July 8, 2011.
06:53It is almost impossible
06:55that 13 years later
06:57something can be confirmed.
06:59My particular question
07:01is the one I have been asking
07:03as the days go by
07:05and as justice advances
07:07and gives more information
07:09about this investigation
07:11is why at this moment
07:13out of nowhere, we can say,
07:15the truck driver
07:17is accused of 20 causes
07:19that involve him
07:21within the disappearance of Maria Cash.
07:23From here in the province of Salta
07:25it is said that it is very productive
07:27and that this cause
07:29logically has to have a closure.
07:31Maria Jose, thank you very much
07:33for these minutes.
07:35It is an open case
07:37despite the imputation to the truck driver
07:39because there are still many more questions
07:41to try to answer.
07:43Thank you very much for these minutes.
07:45Well, thank you very much
07:47to all of you and well,
07:49greetings from the floor.
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