Gabriel Garcia Marquez, both as a journalist and writer, was worried with politics and social responsibility for their stories. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, intelligent reporter complements the technical writer in the rescue of a story that took place almost thirty years after the murder that inspired him. Anchored in reality, that narrative is a critique of moral values that weigh on Latin Americans. Recounting the death of Cayetano Gentile, become Santiago Nasar, the author condenses the domain of magic realism. Text that combines the practical experience of the novel and the practice of report.