URBAN | Maru, the only one who protested the dead baby found in the Puebla-Urban prison | News Mexico

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Maru San Martín is a 50-year-old writer from Puebla, who is also an activist and journalist, and was the only person who brought outrage over the death of a newborn (used as a “mule”) on social media of drug trafficking and whose body appeared in the garbage dump of the San Miguel prison) and made a protest in front of the aforementioned penitentiary. uniformed, others dressed as civilians who carry out police or social communication work, the writer demanded that the authorities clarify the case that was initially denounced by the Reinserta organization. Maru acknowledged that she has contacts inside the prison because she recently qualified as a journalist by Unarte, with a thesis on the inequality and vulnerability with which women live inside this state prison. “When this situation appeared, I already had hard data on ungovernability and everything that happens not only in San Miguel, but in prisons in general in Mexico. I was moved by what the director of Reinserta published and I began to move, as a journalist that I am also, in the networks and asking for the help of the presenters who have interviewed me and only you (the media) moved. Civil society that she is so concerned about the ungovernability not only of the prisons but of Puebla in general, of the lack of rights, of the violence; and many said that they were going to come and there is no one, because I am the one that represents the civil society concerned about the situation.”San Martín said that he expected at least 50 people to show up after the call he made, at the time of accept that without a civil association or some other organization that shelters their protest, it will be difficult to move forward, but that their action leaves a precedent regarding the non-conformity that exists in the public regarding the concealment of information about the ungovernability and corruption that is experienced inside the prison of San Miguel. Questioned about the statement by the state governor, Miguel Barbosa Huerta, that those who were demanding that the investigations of the case be speeded up are only looking for reflectors, she assured that she does not need them and that her protest is legitimate. Thus, walking alone and in amazement relatives of inmates and those who sell beige clothes to enter the prison, in addition to other items; She held her white diaper bag tight with red ink that simulated blood and placed it, with two clothespins, on the metal mesh of the San Miguel prison as a symbol of one of the most terrible crimes of drug trafficking: using babies, boys and girls for the transfer of drugs. According to the Unarte website, Maru San Martín is originally from Puebla, born on March 23, 1971, and her chronicles, essays, poems, and stories have appeared in various digital and print media. third place in a state short story contest with the text "Purificación" (2018) and a national award for being chosen to integrate the Second Anthology of Mexican Writers with her story "El clóset" (2019). She is the author of the illustrated children's story "El camino de Fátima" published by the Spanish publisher Avant (2020). Her short story “Flores Amarillas” was published by Editorial Literálika in the Encuentos con Rosa Anthology (2020). Graduated in Hotel Management from the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (1995) and graduated in Journalism from the Universidad de Arte de Puebla UNARTE, (2019). . As a thesis project, she published a Creative Writing Manual for Women Without Freedom with which she gives free workshops to vulnerable groups. She offers personalized writing courses via email, is an editor and proofreader. She is currently working as a cultural manager, making new authors visible. Produces and directs the Red Lips, Chocolate and a Rose Anthology for Ediciones Educación y Cultura (2020). Her story "Purification" is part of the Anthology Cuentos de Alteración (2020) Duermevela. She is an organizing member of the National Book Fair of Mexican writers (2020)."