The New Zealand woman in an Argentinian prison accused of cocaine smuggling says she has seen a lawyer and expects to go before a court next week.
Sharon Armstrong, a former deputy chief executive at Maori Language Commission, was detained on 13 April after trying to board a plane with a suitcase containing 5kg of cocaine.
She is in a medium-security women's detention centre in Ezeiza, about an hour west of Buenos Aires.
Ms Armstrong refused to comment on reports in the Dominion Post that she had checked in an Argentinian-made suitcase and that among the items seized are four driver's licences.
Speaking to Radio New Zealand by phone from jail on Saturday, Ms Armstrong said she was not "in a position to be able to talk about any of that at this stage."
Ms Armstrong has previously said she did not know the suitcase contained cocaine and was tricked into carrying it by a man she had been internet dating.
"It's my first ever experience of chatting to someone online that I didn't know," she said. "I think I'm far too trusting."
She said she had fears over the "reach" of the people she ended up involved with.
"They know who I am and they know I have a whanau, they know the names of my whanau."
Ms Armstrong was grateful for many phone calls of support from whanau and friends but said she was upset that she is putting them through this ordeal.
New Zealand embassy staff had visited her and given her a Spanish dictionary, magazines and writing paper so that she can write a journal.
