Edward Murillo
Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, March 14, 2022, p. 12
This Monday will be voted in the plenary session of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) the amparos promoted by Laura Morán Servín, former partner of Federico Gertz, and by her daughter, Alejandra Guadalupe Cuevas Morán, both accused by the head of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR), Alejandro Gertz Manero, of homicide due to lack of care against his brother.
During the past week, both the prosecutor and Cuevas’ children, Ana Paula, Alonso and Gonzalo Castillo Cuevas, were received by the ministers, whom they have tried to convince to vote in favor of their cause.
Neither party agrees with the draft resolutions presented by Minister Alberto Pérez Dayán, who proposes granting protection to both complainants, but only for the purposes of a collegiate court reviewing the rulings, after considering that there were errors on the part of the Judge Marcela Ángeles, which must be corrected.
For the children of Alejandra Cuevas, the SCJN must grant their mother and grandmother plain and simple protections, which allow them to obtain immediate freedom. They argue that the case should be judged from a gender perspective, taking into account the role that their relatives played for decades as Federico Gertz’s caregivers, without significant help from the head of the FGR.
fugitive nonagenarian
A few hours after the decision of the ministers, the relatives of both women demonstrated on Sunday afternoon in front of the headquarters of the SCJN, in Pino Suárez 2, where they placed candles and a blanket demanding freedom.
They pointed out that Alejandra Morán served more than 500 days in prison, while Laura Morán, close to 90 years of age, is the oldest woman considered a fugitive from justice.
For his part, according to the conversations illegally intercepted from the telephone of the head of the FGR, and which the official himself accepted as real, Alejandro Gertz is also not satisfied with Pérez Dayán’s projects, since he considers that they would open the possibility that the collegiate could order the freedom of Alejandra Cuevas and Laura Morán.
