Andrea Barrios is working to free women from their dangerous loves. It’s not easy. Andrea Barrios and I met in a nondescript parking lot in the mountain city of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, after a four-hour drive from the capital through slate gray peaks adorned with rich, green forests. Car headlights pierced the thick, early-morning fog that lingered like a light blanket over the treetops. Barrios, 44, has done the drive many times to visit some of the 140 inmates of a women’s prison called Xela, located in a colonial building that was once a school. She often comes as she did that day — with her girlfriend, Ana Ingrid Zelada, 46, who spent 15 years behind bars in a Guatemalan prison for her role in a kidnapping. They met when Zelada was still incarcerated and Barrios was doing outreach work in her prison. |