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Rosa Julia Leyva's Torturous Path Through the Mexican Prison System: Interview with Former Drug Trafficker
Ist Teil von
NACLA report on the Americas (1993), 2014-01, Vol.47 (2), p.39-40
Ort / Verlag
New York: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Rosa Julia Leyva Martinez is a Mexican woman from a poor rural community in the southern state of Guerrero. One day she climbed aboard a truck heading for Mexico City. People she knew from her community on the truck offered her money if she would take a suitcase to the northern city of Tijuana. The suitcase contained various packets of heroin. That is how her torturous path through the prisons of Mexico began. When Martinez got out of prison in 2004, she went to live with her sister Vivian. Martinez and the author board a plane for a conference in Washington, DC in late March 2014. In front of an auditorium full of ambassadors and officials from the Organization of American States, Rosa told her story. Rosa Julia Leyva, the "dangerous drug trafficker", became the bearer of a message of strength for thousands of people.