Juana Alonzo Santizo said she was tortured and forced to sign a confession in Spanish, a language she does not speak.
An Indigenous Guatemalan woman who spent more than seven years in prison in Mexico without trial has returned to her homeland, after a court ordered her released.
The Guatemalan Foreign Ministry confirmed that Juana Alonzo Santizo, 35, who was accused of kidnapping and jailed in a northern Mexican border city, had arrived in Guatemala.
A video published on Twitter showed Alonzo being greeted by Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Bucaro at the Guatemala City airport on Sunday before being joined by her family and collapsing into her father’s and her uncle’s arms.
Her relatives helped her change from jeans into traditional Indigenous regional clothes....
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