Spanish to English Translation
***I did (not) do the translation but had an aquaintance complete the translation. The person is (not) affiliated with KHOU 11 in (any) manner and I can (not) guarantee the translation provided. I feel it's very important for all to hear the words of Vanessa's Mother....Gloria Guillen.***
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Gloria
Gloria Guillén
[UI] Unintelligible
[CS] Crosstalking
[SIC] Literal Word containing probable error
Companion
Peoplo around Gloria Guillén
Congresswoman
Sylvia García
Audio file: Mother of missing soldier Vanessa Guillen 'I want my daughter alive!'
Audio duration: 00:10:17
[00:10]
Gloria: First of all, good afternoon to all…
Companion: [UI]
Gloria: I must first of all thank God that he lifted me of my bed to be able to come, because I could not come as I did not feel well at all. The Coronel invited me and I thank him, he invited me to come but I couldn’t, I couldn’t because yesterday when I found out that they were looking in that river I felt very bad because I know that my daughter is not there, because they took a long time to look for my daughter.
[01:11]
Gloria: I begged them from the beginning to look for my daughter, to close that base and to get more than 30,000 soldiers to look for my daughter and they didn’t. I begged them to shut down that base and investigate room by room, barracks by barracks, building by building, they never did, why are they doing that show now to look for my daughter? Why so long now?
I demand justice, I demand respect and respect for my daughter as a soldier, she joined the army for her country, for her country, to defend all of us. Since she was very young, since she was 10 years old she said that she was going to enroll, and I didn’t believe it, I thought it was a girl’s game, but no, she reached adolescence, entered high school and enrolled. I cried a lot because I didn’t want her to sign up, because my mother’s heart was already afraid I was going to suffer this.
[02:07]
Gloria: She signed up for her country and to defend us and now that she needs us, we must support her and look for her, and catch the wretch who I don’t know which one is. That is why I demand justice and I demand that all the sergeants who were in charge of my daughter, all those in her unit, be imprisoned, that their homes, their ranches be searched, that their cell phones be removed until they tell me where my daughter is. Because everyone, from the sergeant major and as it was his responsibility, the sergeant’s creed, to take care of his soldiers, to protect them, he didn’t do it with my daughter. They lured her down to the gun room to kidnap her, I don’t know how they got her out of there, all I know is that it was a white van where they took her, a white van, who of them has got a white van?
[03:01]
Gloria: Let it be investigated and the truth told, let it not be hidden from the base, the Coronels, do not hide them because everything is going to be known in the name of Jesus everything will be known because so my Father God wants it.
I need my daughter and I want her alive. From the beginning when I spoke in the other post I said: "I want my daughter alive, because my daughter came in alive", because, if God forbid, my daughter appears dead, I will close this base, I’ll move sky and sea and earth and this base closes because it is a basic rot, because it says there: “The best place” but what for? To kidnap, rape, kill.
It’s not fair, that’s why I demand it. Because of them I am ill, because I need my daughter with me, that girl is my life, she is my worship, so I am fighting with tooth and nail until they give her to me and the guilty ones pay.
[04:04]
Gloria: I demand that all sergeants from the lowest rank to the highest rank be imprisoned, and that their homes, their ranches, their rooms, their cell phones be investigated. Why haven’t you done that from the beginning? I told you four weeks ago the name of a wretch, why didn’t you do everything from the beginning? Why are they doing that show now looking for my baby girl? I need my child and I want her alive in my arms, next to me, because if not, I don’t know what would become of me, I need my precious with me. I can no longer deal with the lies of those miserable people, because they are miserable. Let it come to the truth, that’s why I don’t ask to talk to those people, I ask to talk to the really good, I ask to talk to the boss, the one in the Congress, the Senate, not them. They’re nobody, they’re just disappearing people. I ask to talk to the good guy, to the boss, not to those people, those people to me are nobody, they are people who try to disappear young girls and kidnap them.
[05:08]
Gloria: Let justice be done, for God’s sake, let my voice be heard. Because more than 200 mothers are coming to me, "my son won’t sign," "he’s out of high school and he won’t sign", "I’m going to take my son out so there’s reprisals," "I’d rather have my son alive than have him gone". That’s why the President hears, that for this cause, that if you don’t clean this base of corruption and don’t give me my daughter, there will be no more young people who sign up. Who will go to war if there is war? Who will defend the country? No one, out of fear. "I’m going to disappear, why am I signing up? I’d rather work in a shop, in a supermarket for a living, than go to that filthy base, or whatever.” That’s why I ask you to cleanse yourself from the bottom and deliver my daughter alive, I want her alive, for God’s sake, alive.
[06:00]
Gloria: And that all those responsible be investigated and brought down, whether they be a coronel, whether they be a sergeant, I don’t care, that they be investigated from the lowest rank to the highest rank. Because everyone is responsible, everyone, because they covered up the whole investigation, because that day was not worked, and I was lied to by the CID that they had worked, never worked and my daughter never came back with the report, they told me that she had come back and my daughter never came back, what did they think? That I will not know? Someone very important told me, so I knew, What did you think? That God was not with me? God is with me, that’s why I’m coming to the truth. May the truth be reached and my daughter be delivered to me. I’m asking the President to help me investigate because I don’t believe in them, I don’t believe them. Let the truth come to me and give me my child, for after this there will not be a child who will join the Army and be sure of it… I have here all the messages of the mothers, "my son is not going to register ma'am, so that they will disappear him?"
[07:02]
Gloria: This is not a lie, they must reach the truth, who defends us? Who will defend us? Each other? No, truth. That is why soldiers register for their country, for their homeland. That’s why we have to have conscience, you ******* maniacs, you have to come out into the open, you have to be locked up, and you have to give up the full weight of the law, and you have to give me my daughter alive, because I’m surviving at pill point, I have to be taking pills so I can be here.
I love my daughter because that girl is my life, she is my Heaven, she is my everything, because my six children are the only thing for me, and it is what I want the most: that justice be done, and that justice be done to my little girl who I love so much, to my queen. She is exemplary, in all schools, all trophies, in four football teams, excellent, "Mrs., your girl is excellent". She doesn’t deserve a bunch of lowlifes like this to ruin a young girl’s life, so I’m asking that all these people be investigated, no matter who they are, that they be investigated and that the full weight of the law be dropped, that they give me my baby is what I’m asking for, And I thank you with all my heart that you have come, I can not come in because right now I woke up trembling from my bed and came to testify and say what I know.
[08:20]
Gloria: Give me my baby girl. I thank the lawyer and the congresswoman, but that support me to go to the Senate, to the presidency, not here, the President and the Governor, that it is investigated and that they give me my girl, and that they pay all those miserable what they have done. For God’s sake, help me, help me in all this.
Congresswoman: We’re going to help you, you know, we’re going to help you. We’re going to go up, we’re going to go up.
[08:46]
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