July 20, 1974

July 20, 1974, is a documentary anchor in the prison chronology: the date on which a prisoner was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment. The record distinguishes that legal event from the later dates of his confinement and transfer, while the book’s embedded movie narratives supply vivid but undated scenes rather than additional events fixed to this day.

Sentencing and Legal Record

The prison record dates the sentence to July 20, 1974, and identifies the sentencing authority as Judge Justo José Dalpierre of the Criminal Court of the City of Buenos Aires. It states that the prisoner was condemned to eight years for corruption of minors. The entry is concise and administrative, giving the date a firm place in the chronology without narrating the court proceedings themselves.

Confinement and Subsequent Transfer

The record places the prisoner in Pavilion B, cell 34, as of July 28, 1974, alongside Benito Jaramillo, Mario Carlos Bianchi, and David Margulies. It then records a separate change on April 4, 1975: transfer to Pavilion D, cell 7, which housed political prisoner Valentin Arregui Paz. The entry also marks his conduct as good. These later details clarify the chronology attached to the sentence, but they should not be mistaken for events occurring on July 20.

Place in the Book’s Layered Timeline

The date belongs to the prison record’s documentary register. Elsewhere, the supplied passages move through narrated cinematic settings without assigning them this date: a Paris music hall where a chorus number changes in appearance, a blind pianist’s gathering in a pine-scented setting, the closing hours of the Mardi Gras of Veracruz, and a masked woman encountered in a jungle. Their shifting scenes and imagery contrast with the prison entry’s exact dates and institutional locations; the evidence does not establish that any of those film episodes takes place on July 20, 1974.