Overview
- Nahir Galarza, who is serving a life sentence, was escorted from Paraná to Gualeguaychú on Wednesday for a roughly 60‑minute visit with her grandmother and then returned to the women’s Unit 6 without incident.
- The Execution Court No. 2 in Gualeguaychú authorized the temporary leave in an order signed March 19 after a forensic doctor confirmed the severity of the grandmother’s condition.
- Officials ran a high-security operation that included a penitentiary escort, a pre-entry sweep of the home, continuous supervision inside the residence, and restrictions on who could be present.
- The permit did not change Galarza’s status or sentence, which remains final after higher courts—including the Supreme Court in 2024—upheld her conviction for the 2017 killing of Fernando Pastorizzo.
- Wednesday’s trip marked her first return to Gualeguaychú in about nine years, a symbolic backdrop to a tightly controlled visit granted strictly on humanitarian grounds.