What grammatical role does 'le' have in this sentence?

[Yoodle15]

"En la estancia, un joven le dice a Raquel que Rosario murió hace años."

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Check the uses of indirect object pronouns.

You can find this thread (http://forums.tomisimo.org/showthread.php?t=10177) and this one (http://forums.tomisimo.org/showthread.php?t=10684) useful, but there are a few others. :)