Alejandra Cuevas details that the organization seeks to raise funds and people who wish to work pro bono. But the most important thing, she says, is to give resources to the women of Santa Martha so that they have a decent stay.
“The most important thing is obviously to get out free, but when you’re an inmate you know how many shortcomings there are. We want to help make people’s lives less miserable while they’re inside, and I understand that the government doesn’t have enough money to provide us with what they need.” minimum, which is a mattress; in there you sleep on the floor, on the tin plates or on foam rubber two centimeters thick,” he points out.
For this reason, one of its purposes is that through the foundation mattresses be purchased for women deprived of liberty, a step that was taken when Alejandra was still in Santa Martha. “We didn’t have that much money, but we were able to deliver 16 mattresses to inmates who had nowhere to sleep, and we are waiting for them to authorize the entry of another 40 mattresses,” she highlights.
Freedom is only achieved through lawyers, but in the meantime, decent conditions must be provided.
Alexandra Cuevas
Recover lost time
Alejandra Cuevas confesses that returning to life as she knew it until before her arrest has been complicated, because many people are interested in knowing about the injustice she suffered due to the accusation of Gertz Manero.
Since his release, the interviews have not stopped, and still he seeks to spend time with his children, his grandchildren and his mother, at the same time that he channels the emotions of the most basic: going to a decent bathroom or even having a couple of drinks. cutlery, things that were deprived while in Santa Martha.
“Plastic cutlery that weighs nothing is used in the prison, and suddenly taking some metal cutlery that weighs is a very pleasant feeling. Being able to pull a toilet with a button or a handle, and not carrying water in boats, is also one of the most wonderful emotions, just like taking a shower again, feeling again that the water falls from the ceiling, and not with jícaras”, he describes.
