María del Pilar Álvarez Menéndez speaks without fear of a society that she considers deteriorated and of a justice incapable of being the tool to recover it. Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 57 years ago and raised in Tenerife, she admits that she is happier as a writer than as a prosecutor, a position she has held in Huelva for two of her three decades of career, first in road safety and now in the environment. These days he is facing trials for illegal water extraction in the area of Doñana, for which, in some cases, reports of environmental damage have taken years, and he has seen how the province where he raised his family burned in May with unprecedented anticipation and virulence. But she, who reflects in poems what she cannot express as a member of the judicial system, affirms that the flames are in society, which suffers a “structural violence” against which criminal law does little to resolve.
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