Sangre En El Divan

Name: Maria Eugenia Chacin

Country: Venezuela

Language: Spanish

Book Title: Sangre En El Divan (Blood in the Couch)

Author: Ibéyise Pacheco
Year of Publication: 2011

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SUMMARY:

This is a true history and talks about Edmundo Chirinos. He is recognized Venezuelan psychiatrist. He was suspect of killing Roxana Vargas, one of his patient. This is an important of the Venezuelan’s modern history. The narrative starts explaining the crime. Roxana, her patient, was a victim of rape more than one time and she was finally murdered by her doctor.  Pacheco, the writer, give us a lot of details about the crime. Evidence by evidence you can fallow the murder. Throughout the investigation, the police discovered other victims for rape and other crimes committed by the doctor. The author gives us relevant details about Chiniro’s life. One of them is that he was the psychiatrist of the late President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias. However, the most valuable clue in this research was definitely the journal of the victim and the telephone registration. Although the political defense that Chavez’s government give him, the truth was known.

The author gives way to a series of interviews conducted with colleagues, patients and key people in the doctor's life. Even though it may be very late, this will be used as evidence during the judgment day. The detective proved the guilt of the doctor in this political environment. Nevertheless, it is not the all, Pacheco realized interviewing him before the final sentence. Ultimately, the doctor was put on trial, and was given a guilty verdict; then placed in jail

RECOMMENDATION:

This book is for lovers of the study of human behavior. It is living proof that not everything is what it seems. Roxana faced a demon with the courage of adolescent, and she reached to demonstrate a truth that appeared impossible. Her death does discredits, and puts the murderer in jail. Also, Roxana’s death helped to avoid any more victims of rape by this sick doctor. In order to solve this case, it was not an easy task; and it rarely shows the efficiency and compromise of police in my nation, even though that moral and political conflicts. The truth was victorious in this situation.