No cards were handed out, but all the guests arrived. None of them brought gifts to Samara Milagros, Victoria and Jerónimo’s first party, but there was no need. A great godfather called solidarity, obtained by a great godmother called Tropicana, gave away everything materially necessary for three women to receive their babies in a few days. In a few weeks, expectant mothers will see, after a long time, the light of freedom and the light of life shining in dilated pupils, wet and fearful of three little ones who sleep in the warmest and safest place in the world: the mother’s womb.
Each future mother arrived at the party with a tiara of tiny white flowers holding her hair that is seldom brushed and pampered because the spirits do not abound. It was a different day. Made up, dressed in the same way, they proudly showed off their bellies in front of a pavilion of calm and nostalgic looks that did not hesitate to exclaim tenderness when they came out of the gift bags, tiny boy and girl dresses and tiny shoes.. For an hour, were it not for the khaki-colored uniforms that were in every corner of the courtyard, the feeling of being inside a detention center was lost.
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In the end, two modern cars, three pens, lots of new clothes, dozens of diapers, toys, blankets and even wet wipes were collected.
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This unique baby shower, held at the Villa Cristina women’s detention center in Armenia, was an initiative of the guard staff and the director who, with all the gender solidarity and sensitivity inherited from her mother and grandmother, did not He hesitated to echo what was initially a trick, but it ended up being an event that filled with laughter and a lot of emotion one day in this prison, a day that risked being one more, another more.
With the authorization of Tatiana, director of the detention center, a campaign began that without hesitation supported the coolest. The microphones of the station were the route of solidarity. The station’s telephone began to ring repeatedly and each call announced the involvement of different people, from various parts of the city, to the new initiative. In the end, two modern cars, three pens, lots of new clothes, dozens of diapers, toys, blankets and even wet wipes were collected. Everything was packed and taken to the 50th street of Armenia. Behind that blue door of the prison, which divides the street error from the penalty for committing it. There was music, cake, rice pudding, a huge balloon, children’s decorations and three small woolen octopuses that serve to reassure infants.
Paula Andrea Mazo found out that she was pregnant the day she was captured. We are not going to mention the reasons for his arrest, that is not the story. Paula Andrea arrived at Villa Cristina, we don’t know how long ago, we didn’t ask. What we did know is that after giving birth she will regain her freedom. God willing that her time in this small world leads her on the right path, next to Victoria whose voice, skin color and eye color she will meet with her other two other children of hers in two months. She, the mother, assures that having arrived at Villa Cristina was positive because otherwise, the pregnancy would not have progressed. The first months of pregnancy were complicated. She was diagnosed with a high-risk pregnancy. Fortunately, medical attention was not lacking.Inpec arranged what was necessary so that she did not lose any maternal control and all that remains is to wait for the contractions, to know the power of Victoria’s crying and to start cooing.
She came to prison pregnant and had a high-risk pregnancy.
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If a judge authorizes it, the legal regulations in Colombia allow women deprived of liberty who are pregnant to go home the last month of pregnancy and stay there with the baby for up to four months after delivery. Then, if there is time to pay the sentence, they must return to the penitentiary. That will not be the case of Cindy Johana, the mother of Samara Milagros; nor Leidy Johana, Jerónimo’s mother. In a few days, the two of them, together with Paula Andrea, will cross the blue door that has kept them isolated from the noise and the harmful temptations that poverty offers, to go home, then to a hospital and then back home again.
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When the blessed and eternal pains arrive that will force Leidy, Paula and Cindy to scream earlier and harder that their newborns, and scratch with unusual force what they have at hand, until they feel that their little ones have also seen the light, will be free again, just like their children whose umbilical cord will be cut, they will invite them to move to a world less calm than the bellies of their newly excited mothers and in which bad decisions multiply when opportunities are lacking.
ERNESTO ACERO MARTÍNEZ and CARLOS LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ
The Chronicle of Quindío
United Colombia
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