Her name is María Ugarte , she has been entrenched for a week with her daughter at the Uruguayan Consulate of Barcelona , refusing to comply with the resolutions of both Spanish and Uruguayan judges, and one could say she is Juana Rivas of the South American country.

He fled with his three-year-old daughter to his country from Spain, denounced the father there for sexual abuses never demonstrated or proven , then used all the legal springs to refuse to comply with the sentences and now, when it comes to return to the youngest, of seven , to his father, he 'bunkeriza' with her under the protection of the consul, who refuses to comply with the Spanish Justice on the grounds that she is on Uruguayan soil.

In closing, the Spanish Government, through the mouth of Foreign Affairs, has assured the father that he cannot do anything to force the law to be enforced - since the woman is on foreign soil - despite the fact that Justice has ruled that the The girl must be with her father , who has been totally separated from her for three years, and despite the fact that the report of abuse, with the appearance of being instrumental, occurred months after the kidnapping began.

The Catalan experts appointed by the judge have assured before the Justice that the mother has manipulated the girl, that she has predisposed him against the father and that he has used the alleged abuse to try to separate the parent from the child, who entrusted the psychologists the maneuvers of his mother - all of which has been demonstrated in the court of Lleida that has granted custody to the father.

The popular avalanche: 'Maria does not leave'

In closing, as with Rivas, the case has been used in Uruguay to vindicate the rights of women, polarizing much of public opinion under the slogan of 'María no se va' - Ugarte refuses to comply with Justice Just as Rivas was looking for and capturing with his children in the summer of 2017-, and dozens of protesters have protected the country's consulate in Barcelona this week, with banners against "Hepatriarchal Justice."

The case starts when Ugarte arrives in Spain , 10 years ago, and begins a relationship in Vielha (Lleida) with the Asturian Pablo SG, radiology assistant. In 2012 her daughter was born, and three years later mother and daughter travel to Uruguay , in principle on vacation. "From that moment," he says to EL MUNDO the environment of the father, "she sends him several messages, documented, to join them in Uruguay, and to make life there. He says: 'Come with us', 'Be brave'...".

However, the father refuses and, when it is clear that the mother will not return, since he does not take the plane back, his lawyer, Carme Simón , files a complaint for international abduction. We are in May 2016. "It is shortly thereafter, in August 2016, when the mother remembers," follows the father's environment, "that as soon as the three-year-old girl has boarded the plane, two months before, she has started to complain of pains in his body and to reject men. "

There is a complaint about sexual abuse of the mother against the father who, three years later, the Catalan service of psychological experts, called EATAV (Technical Advisory Team and Victim Assistance), has indicated with no proven, and instrumental. Uruguayan Justice, however, acts quickly, and generally in favor of the father - as in the case of Juana Rivas , the judges of both countries have almost always operated diligently, but political interference.

Forced to return to Spain with the girl

They force the mother to return to Spain by applying the Hague Convention , which prevents a parent from denaturing the child by taking him from his surroundings, and in Barcelona the complaint is reactivated for sexual abuse that she had filed in Uruguay, and that the South American country He never processed for having committed the alleged crime in another country.

The criminal complaint declines, because there is no evidence and evidence of a manipulation of the girl, according to judicial experts, and in the Family lawsuit the judge gives custody to the father without the mother even appearing at the trial, after use all the legal recesses to try to delay and prevent the resolution -including a supposed car accident of her, and recurring agenda problems of her lawyer-. All this is recorded in court documents.

After the father has not seen the daughter in three years, and that she has been treated two and a half years in Uruguay of allegedly invented abuses, the sentence, of September 25, accepts a form of surrender to the father proposed by the mother : at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, October 4, she would hand over her daughter to the Uruguayan consul in Barcelona, ​​her friend, and an hour later the diplomat would give the child to the father.

The consul refuses to serve his sentence

On Friday, October 4, she meets giving her daughter to the consul, but an hour later he refuses to complete the second part. He alleges that the child is on Uruguayan soil, vindicates that he is not responsible for Spanish resolutions or laws, and welcomes the woman and the daughter. A week later, the Spanish Government announces, through Foreign Affairs , that there is nothing to do: "There is a sentence to be complied with, so there is no room for action," members of the Diplomatic Information Office tell Europa Press.

"It is an incredible case of using judicial and public resources to separate a girl from her father," Carme Simón , a lawyer for the parent, tells this newspaper. "And it cannot be that the Spanish Government does not give a clear answer to such a case, but taking into account other cases, where the communication from Government to Government is fluid," says the lawyer, mentioning the letter revealed by THE WORLD sent by Spanish Minister of Justice, Dolores Delgado, to her Italian counterpart, Alfonso Bonafede, to intercede on behalf of Juana Rivas.

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