Arbitration has been institutionalized in half the world. Arbitration awards are that solution so as not to reach disputes loaded with procedures, deadlines and costs.
And also in this particular field, literature can be made as a reflection of disturbing realities, just like other narrators of legal fictions such as John Grisham they deal with relating us with that point of suspense about something as everyday as seeking the protection of justice.
On this occasion, the fictional character splashes with the proximity of a realism brought from the particular casuistry of arbitration in Peru. And the character of Doctor Héctor Céspedes guides us through a disturbing testimony that loads the plot, even more if possible, of that dry impact of the crudest realities.
Because The abolition of the laws He tells us in the previous link, in its current format as a novel series, composed in tandem by the writer Gimena Maria Vartu, the illustrator Sam slikar and the editor Hector Pittman Villarreal, details that connect with arbitration as an excuse, as an alternative formula to hide obligations and squeeze public funds.
But the greatest success of this novel lies in this double personalization, in the dumping of the weight of the world on the shoulders of Héctor Céspedes and in the necessary figure of the prosecutor, exercising his work despite everything. Héctor knows that the interests manage the tempos of this previous justice of the arbitration with later pretenses of summary purchase of wills. The prosecutor is willing to put black on white, with the seal of justice, the outrages accumulated during years of neglect and charges for obscure favors.
In the tribulations of Hector's conscience, at times between the poetic and the symbolic, we find the human being faced with one of the great cancers of civilization: corruption.
In the balance between good and evil that assails this character at every moment, the dramatic critical vision of this corruption is structured, always assaulting the goodwill of any figure or institution, including arbitration.
There are no panaceas, miracle solutions. Even less in the Ministry of Justice. And no matter how many alternatives are found for a slow justice and suspicion of not always following the procedures in accordance with the law, the shadow of corruption ends up making its way, looming slowly in principle, subjecting everything to darkness once it is discovered that it can return to darken the world.
The case addressed in the novel, extracted from that insurmountable reality, is presented to us between reflections of its characters and those open dialogues that take place in a courtroom in which someone finally looks for the truth without thinking about prices.
In the meantime, between comings and goings to the courtroom, the rich details of what can truly be, in this cynical world. The establishment of the crime to control any arbitration award with which the public money that should satisfy the basic needs of the population is stolen. And also collateral damage.
Nothing more maddening and nothing more similar to a crime novel than this composition of the handwriting of those who know what is cooked in that justice to the consumer's taste, according to the price paid ...