This a written Spanish to English translation (of a portion) of The Raul Brindis Show
streamed live on June 2, 2020.
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This is (not) the entire interview.
LEGEND
All voices are accompanied by a number or name to designate the order of appearance in the recording.
Entrevistador
Raul Brindis
[UI] Unintelligible
[CS] Crosstalking
[SIC] Literal Word containing probable error
Sra. Gloria
Gloria Guillén
Mayra Guillén
Audio file: #FINDVANESSAGUILLEN VANESSA GUILLEN SOLDADO DESAPARECIDA.
Audio duration: 00:23:29
[00:00]
Interviewer: [UI] To me [UI]… Whenever there is a person who has a void in his heart, that has a loss of a person, because it hurts. And more if we are Latino, I think we should support each other and always be together so we can try to find alternatives and solutions to the problems we may have.
Friends, we have followed this information about the soldier Vanessa Guillén who was reported missing since April 22. Last seen in the parking lot of her regional engineering squad headquarters in Fort Hood, nothing’s been known since. We have seen her sister Mayra who has been giving some information desperate [SIC] to people, obviously because she is nowhere to be found.
There are the scenes we have put on all the social networks to be able to have the image, which in case suddenly is not within the base for someone to recognize it and also giving the information phones to be able to know a little more about her.
I am infinitely grateful today to have, friend or friend of ours, to have the mother of Vanessa Guillen that we have with us precisely in communication from her home and to whom I welcome.
Mrs Guillén greetings, very good morning. How are you?
[01:31]
Gloria: Good morning, greetings too. As you can see, I am very desperate, sad and distressed since April 22, it’s been 40 days since my daughter disappeared.
Interviewer: Yes, right. Mrs Guillén, it is something incredible, I still do not fit in the mind that [UI] in the United States. If you tell me: "It happened in a Mexican town, it happened in a town of Salvador, it happened in a town of… [UI]". So many things we grew up with as Latinos, but in the United States and on a military base, in particular, I can’t understand this situation, and that’s why the idea is to push and get to the end and know that they give you information about where your daughter might be. How can she disappear on a military base? I want to know what the authorities have told you or to your daughter Mayra, what’s the latest we have of them as information?
[02:28]
Gloria: To me… exactly, exactly. They have not been told me anything. They go and the detectives tell me: "We continue in the same madam, in the search, we search here, we search there". But we’re being helped by another detective outside the base to investigate and it turns out that I was told three lies by the detectives who are investigating inside the base. They told me three lies because my daughter was never missing from the parking lot, no, she didn’t disappear from the military base parking lot, she disappeared from the gun building where they sent her for a report, from where she disappeared, from the weapons building, because there’s all her stuff, her wallet, her car keys, her credit cards, it’s all there where she was sent for the report.
[03:22]
Interviewer: Would it be possible for someone to have taken her, transported her from the parking lot [UI]… that transport to that place?
Gloria: Look, let me explain.
Interviewer: Go on.
Gloria: She was in the office where they sent her, "go over there, go over here," the office she was in is ten steps from the weapons building, ten steps, ten steps. They say, "Go get this report, go get this gun number". First before she goes to that building she has to go to headquarters to get the keys to open that lock, open that lock, put a confirmation number that only two or three people have it from that building besides the superiors; but of those who are there working, only three people, open, enter. I don’t know, all her stuff’s in there. They say they saw her, there are no cameras, no cameras in the parking lot, why do I have to believe them if I know it’s not true? She disappeared from inside that building, she disappeared from there. Because three months earlier she told me this… I found her weird, strange, confused, thoughtful, unable to sleep. "What do you have daughter, what do you have?" "Nothing mommy, nothing" "mija, I know you very well". I know my daughter very well, perfect. What do you have daughter? Nothing mommy, nothing? And she dared to say to me: "Mommy, I want to talk to you" "Tell me daughter". Here where I am sitting talking to you, here my daughter was sitting with me talking. "Tell me my love, what’s happening to you?" She says, "Mommy, I’m being sexually harassed by a sergeant, he’s stalking me and following me where I run". Because she’s athletic, she runs too. "He follows me to the field where I run, follow me there," and I said, "Report him, report him immediately to that wretch," she said, "Mommy, several have already reported him and don’t believe them, don’t believe them, how do you want me to go too? No one will believe me," and I said, "No, daughter, how can they not believe you? They have to believe you," "What if they don’t believe me, Mommy?" I said, "Then tell me the names and I’ll go, tell me the name and I’ll go. I go and report him,” she said, "Mommy no, I can get you in trouble, they’ll hurt you, because if something happens there, then he sends people to hurt people," “How?", she says: "There’s a lot of evil on that base, a lot of gang, a lot of evil on that base," "So what are we going to do, daughter?" She says, "Let me go, Mommy, I’ll manage on my own, I can do it alone", "No, daughter, you can’t do it alone. Quit and come home," “I can’t, Mommy, I signed for my country, to defend my country, I defend my country". Oh! She made me cry so much, you can’t imagine. She said, "I can". It’s been three weeks and look what happened. I said, "My God, why didn’t my daughter give me the name of that wretch?" Look what happened.
They tell pure lies. That is not true, that my daughter disappeared from there. Why did they move her keys, her wallet, her… everything she left in the weapons building? Who moved it? They were not allowed to move it. They moved it to her room, her barracks. It is not true, pure lies, there is pure corruption on that basis, pure corruption. More than two hundred soldiers disappeared from 2016 to date. Where are their mothers? Where are mothers who do not advocate for their children? I am advocating for mine because she is my life, that girl is my life. I am advocating for her and for her help, for God’s sake! Let justice be done, let them find my daughter, help me look for her.
[07:13]
Interviewer: Mrs Gloria, is there a lawyer who represented you? Is there a lawyer who’s helping you so you can have legal authority in this search for your daughter Vanessa?
Gloria: That’s what we’re doing, trying to find lawyers because none of them want to take the case. Do you understand me? There has to be a retired lawyer, a retired veteran lawyer who has known the military base, who has known what it is to be military, because what is military, remains military, so they say when one goes, "what is military, remains military". Sure, because it’s all corruption.
Interviewer: Of course.
Gloria: Pure corruption, and that can’t be because my daughter got involved in defending the homeland, defending all of us, what are we doing? As I told the news, What are we doing? You’re not doing anything at that military base, what are they looking for? All lies, they’re not looking for my daughter, they put this in. Detectives are in the same, they all lie. What are they hiding? What did they do to my daughter? Who has my daughter? What are they doing there so badly that they don’t want people to know?
The organization that’s helping me, the retired veterans who offered to help me look for my daughter inside, someone I trust, the general didn’t pay attention to me when I said, "Close that base until my daughter is found." Because a few years ago the base was shut down when a soldier was lost and was found that same day, and the base was shut down, investigate well everything that is happening on that base is rubbish, they are vermin, they are cowards, why are they doing that to my daughter? I don’t understand what happened there.
[08:44]
Interviewer: You were telling me, you had had contact with your daughter on the phone, I imagine, when she was telling you on the phone that she was being sexually harassed by some superior, some person who was out there. How often did you have contact with your daughter? Was it by phone, when you spoke to her?
Gloria: She came every Friday afternoon, every Friday afternoon.
Interviewer: Okay, yes.
Gloria: Then she would come and sit, "How do you feel, daughter?" We’d talk for a while.
Interviewer: She was afraid and told you that?
Gloria: Yes, yes. She took a bath, ate, and left with her fiancé, because she’s getting married, she has her fiancé and they’re getting married the next year with the will of God, God ahead, she has her fiancé.
Interviewer: Wow! Yes, ma'am.
Gloria: Here where I’m sitting I…
Interviewer: Perfect. Is that when she told you there was someone stalking her?
Gloria: Yes, she talked to me. There’s a sergeant…
Interviewer: Is that when someone stalks her?
[09:37]
Gloria: A sergeant, he’s not a soldier, he’s a sergeant. The sergeant who sends them, because there are five sergeants in command who send her, five, it looks like five sergeants. Of those five sergeants, which one is it? Why haven’t they investigated them? Why aren’t their phones taken away? Why aren’t their phones tapped? They haven’t done anything, they haven’t been stripped of their rank, they’ve got them there, I know why I… They’ve got them there. I don’t understand what’s going on, so I’m asking you for God’s sake, Raul, to help me, to let the public know what’s going on.
I’ve done two marches, very few people have supported me. So this gentleman that was just murdered, I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry for his wife, for his family, why do you join? Why are they so united? We are the same race, we are all, we are all equal, for God we are all equal, we are all equal. I beg you publicly, to help me, to help me carry out peaceful marches, because we have made peaceful marches without harming third parties, we have not harmed anyone. Peaceful marches to help me advocate to know where my daughter is, what did they do to my daughter? If she’s a soldier who joined the army to defend the fatherland.
Now after this, no young man is going to want to enroll out of fear, for all that is known, for fear. Let the president say, let the governor say, let the senators say, Who’s going to register? Who’s going to defend the fatherland now? Who? Because no one will want to anymore. To me, people who ask me, I tell them that I have the worst opinion of that, because look at everything that’s going on and everything that’s been said to me. A sergeant spoke to me anonymously, and I can’t say the name because he said, "If I say it, they kill me," he says, "Your daughter was kidnapped inside, and it’s a horrible corruption in there," he says, "There are tunnels," they have to investigate the tunnels at that military base, What do they want those tunnels? We don’t know, we don’t know what those tunnels are for.