The new docuseries Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy explore the unsolved death of Alberto Nisman, a man investigating links of terror attacks. Despairing portraits of injustice – writ both small and large, don’t come much bleaker than the Netflix’s six-part docuseries about a terror attack in Argentina, the theories and investigations that followed, and the unbelievably shady death of the man accusing the country’s president of colluding with foreign powers to let the perpetrators go free. Even on a streaming platform known for its pessimistic true-crime works concerning the unknown ability of truth, Justin Webster’s documentary is a gut-punch of a non-fiction expose, recounting a tangled tale with few clear answers and considerably less hope. The story of scandals piled on top of crimes piled on top of more scandals, all of it leading to endless questions and unending misery, the Prosecutor, the series is, first and foremost, about the July 18, 1994, bombing of the AMIA in Buenos Aires that left 85 dead and more than 200 injured. AMIA was the worst terror attack in Latin American history, and it fell to an Argentinean native Alberto Nisman to prosecute the case. In that trial, Nisman and his colleagues seemed to successfully argue that the heinous atrocity was carried out via a truck bomb. On Jan 18, 2015, a day before he was set to appear before Congress to present evidence in support of that charge, Nisman was found dead in his apartment, the victim of a single gunshot wound to the head. The series suggests that Nisman may have been the victim of a conspiracy himself.

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