Truth or Institution? The Communicative Bluff of Isabel Llauger and Pedro Aguado’s Piarists

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Does corporate communication serve the truth or the institution?
The victim’s request for transparency and accountability
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Does Corporate Communication Serve the Truth or the Institution?
In the case of Javier Alcántara, a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of a Piarist priest in Mexico between the ages of eight and eleven, who is now denouncing years of concealment by the Order — as we have previously pointed out here — Isabel Llauger’s television intervention on Aragón TV’s programme Aquí y Ahora becomes especially significant not only because of what it explicitly states, but because of the entire discursive architecture it deploys when analysed through the lenses of narrative coherence, institutional credibility and crisis communication. The complete preservation of hesitations, reformulations, repetitions and spontaneous corrections makes it possible to observe with precision how a highly monitored narrative is constructed …