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Spanish to English: Testimony General field: Other Detailed field: General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Source text - Spanish Todo comenzó el 10 de Julio de 2008, Yo moderaba y era la Productora ejecutiva de un programa de televisión llamado "MAGAZINE TRUJILLANO" de la televisora regional en la cuidad de Valera; canal TOTAL TV. Mi invitado era al Dr. Gassan Al Maaz (Ex-Director del hospital central de Valera, Presidente de FUNDASALUD, Miembro activo del partido PSUV y Lider intelectual de los temidos grupos tupamaros y además socio y testaferro de Gilmer Viloria, Hugo Cabezas y Henry Rangel Silva; quienes son unos poderosos corruptos, narco-gobernantes y mafiosos con enormes tentáculos de poder. Todo comenzó normalmente bien, durante el inicio de la entrevista y luego lo presione y lo denuncie públicamente y en sus narices, ya que el gozaba (y goza) de total impunidad para sus delitos, yo estaba enterada de dos casos de corrupción que lo implicaba directa y totalmente. El no esperaba que se tocara el tema, asi como también ignoraba que yo había estado investigando periodísticamente su gestión en la administración publica. Los casos fueron: 1. CASO DE CORRUPCIÓN ADMINISTRATIVA: Un presupuesto millonario destinado al hospital durante su gestión como Director; sencillamente el dinero se desapareció mientras los pacientes del hospital morían por falta de insumos. 2. SECUESTRO DE CADAVERES: Siendo el Dr. Al Maaz el Director del Hospital General de Valera, secuestraba los cadaveres en la morgue al punto de cerrar las puertas para funerarias privadas, con el objetivo de remitir los servicios fúnebres a una empresa funeraria cuyo propietario era su testaferro. Provocando un caos para los familiares de los fallecidos y las funerarias privadas. La entrevista no pudo ser culminada ya que el Dr. Al Maaz muy molesto y de forma agresiva me tiro en la cara el vaso de agua que tenía en la mano y me amenazó diciéndome: "Mira carajita esto no se va a quedar así, mas te vale que este programa no salga al aire" y se fue muy molesto del canal. Al siguiente día al llegar a mi trabajo recibí la carta de despido, varios compañeros de trabajo me dijeron que el Dr. Al Maaz llamo enfurecido y exigió mi despido inmediato a la presidencia del canal. El 13 de Julio de 2008, recibí una llamada amenazadora: Era la voz de un hombre y me dijo: "te vas arrepentir por haberte metido en lo que no te importa". El 1 de agosto de 2008, en la madrugada, dispararon hacia mi casa, una bala impacto la ventana de mi habitación y otra en la ventana de mi carro. Hice la denuncia a la policía y nunca obtuve ningún resultado. Seguí recibiendo mensajes de texto y llamadas telefónicas amenazadoras ya para el 16 de agosto de 2008 estaba muy asustada y paranoica; debido a tantos problemas, acoso, temor y angustia por las amenazas, Nos mudamos de ciudad a Merida. Mi esposo abrió un negocio y apenas un mes después, el 16 de septiembre de 2008, en nuestro restaurant nos dejaron por debajo de la entrada una amenaza por escrito que decía textualmente: "CUÍDENSE". Ese mismo día hice la denuncia y tampoco obtuve ningún resultado. Mi esposo y yo empezamos a observar presencia de grupos tupamaros en motos fuera de nuestro restaurante, ellos nos miraban desafiantemente, nos tomaban fotos y hablaban por celular. El 18 de Marzo del 2009 me encontraba en una marcha de la oposición cuando militares y tupamaros se acercaron directamente a mi, me golpearon tan fuertemente con una escopeta en el vientre que me causaron el aborto de mi embarazo de 10 semanas de gestación, dos meses después, en mayo del 2009, nos mudamos nuevamente, esta vez a la cuidad de Porlamar en la isla de Margarita. Perder ese bebe fue muy traumatico para mi, ahora, por mi culpa, solo por defender nuestros fundamentales derechos como ciudadanos y no quedarme callada ante el abuso, mi familia y yo estábamos bajo persecución y acoso, además de una brutal y desmedida fuerza de militares y tupamaros que nos amenazaba dia a dia. En vista del poderío de mi perseguidor perdi hasta mi profesión ya que ningún canal ni medio quiso con-tratarme, comencé a trabajar como subgerente en un Hotel al cual asistían de forma consecuente militares activos y fue entonces cuando comenzaron de nuevo las amenazas y acoso. Al salir de mi trabajo me perseguían en motos un grupos de tupamaros. Al vigilante de la comunidad privada donde vivíamos le preguntaban constantemente: "si yo estaba, Si los podía dejar pasar" mientras que el vigilante se negaba siempre a cualquier información ni tampoco los dejaba pasar. Un día en la recepción del hotel un grupo de tupamaros, entraron y gritando mi nombre me dejaron un mensaje: "por deudas pasadas tendrás que pagar", perdí mi empleo por este evento. Mi vida era un desastre, tenía ya que permanecer escondida en la casa una amiga, no salía casi por miedo. Cambiaba mi carro con el de mi amiga para despistarlos y que no me reconocieran. Ya estaba otra vez embarazada y el temor y el miedo se apoderaba de mi. Mi esposo viajo a USA por razones de trabajo en noviembre de 2010, aun con temor y miedo tuve que regresar a Valera sola con mi hija mayor, vivi una vez mas oculta sin asomarme a la calle por miedo, embarazada estaba muy vulnerable, hasta que en Junio de 2011 nos fuimos junto con mi esposo a USA en donde llevamos una vida tranquila, en paz y segura. En Junio de 2012, se termino el contrato y la visa de trabajo de mi esposo, nos regresamos a Venezuela creíamos que luego de este tiempo todo se habría calmado, pero no fue asi; El 10 de Julio de 2012, me encontraba con mi esposo celebrando mi cumpleaños en un restaurant de la ciudad, salí a buscar mi celular que lo había olvidado en el carro y al llegar al estacionamiento me esperaba el Dr. Al Maaz en persona con dos de sus guardaespaldas. El Dr. Al Maaz me dijo "Pensé que ya no estabas en este mundo" y me golpeo en la cara, brazos y vientre. En ese momento llegaron varias personas y se disipó el problema. El Dr. Al Maaz se fue rápidamente con sus guardaespaldas dejándome tirada en el piso. A mi esposo le avisaron lo ocurrido y salió corriendo a levantarme y socorrerme, me llevo a un ambulatorio para que me atendieran ya que estaba muy adolorida y sangrando por la boca. De ahi volvieron las amenazas y el acoso y me toco otra vez esconderme, estaba desesperada, cai en una depresión cuando me entero que el 12 de Abril de 2013, grupos armados del gobierno, asesinaron a mi compañera de trabajo: Doris Viloria Palomares; hiriendo también a otros colegas por el simple hecho de investigar casos de corrupción. Yo llevaba buena relación con ella ya que habíamos trabajado juntas en varias investigaciones periodísticas por casos de corrupcion, esto me devasto. Permaneci casi seis meses en un encierro total, ya había agotado todos los recursos y nada funcionaba, estábamos totalmente desprotegidos y yo me sentía culpable, mi esposo había hecho algunos procesos de trabajo fuera de Venezuela y lo llamaron para trabajar en Canada; salimos de Venezuela el 21 de enero de 2013. Pensábamos estar en Canada solo por el tiempo del contrato de mi esposo, ya que nosotros amamos nuestro país, nuestro clima, nuestras familias, yo no hablo inglés y teníamos fe que todo cambiaría y volveríamos a tener una vida normal, ya planeábamos nuestro regreso en Marzo del 2015, en Diciembre del 2014 me sorprendio un viaje de mis padres a Canada, me hizo feliz hasta que llegaron y me dijeron que habian venido personalmente para alertarnos que la situación nuestra está cada vez peor y mas seria y preocupante ya que ahora hasta los teléfonos o otros medios de comunicacion están intervenidos y las amenazas continúan, en nuestro entorno social se sabe que regresariamos para Marzo de 2015 a Venezuela. Un grupo de tupamaros han hecho amenazas o “advertencias” a mis padres. Al punto de que un tupamaro le narro una conversación textual que había tenido yo días antes con mi padre via SMS.
Conversación entre MI PADRE Y YO:
"Papa le corte el cabello a la bebe pensando en que falta poco para que regresaremos a Venezuela ya en marzo podremos disfrutar del calorcito de la cuidad, reunirnos nuevamente y poder compartir en familia, los extraño".
Esto me aterra sobremanera, ya que no tenemos ningún tipo de privacidad en nuestra comunicación y nuestras conversaciones son monitoreadas por teléfono, email, redes sociales e incluso mensajería.
Mis padres denunciaron también en la policía las amenazas, pero todo continúa igual, sin ley que frene este acoso ni nos ofrezca seguridad. Es por eso que decidí pedir refugio en Canada ante el inminente riesgo para mi vida y la de mis hijas y nuestra seguridad ante las continuas amenazas y dado el poder de nuestro perseguidor el Dr. Al Maaz y sus influyentes y mafiosos cómplices Gilmer Viloria, Hugo Cabezas y Henry Rangel Silva.
Translation - English It all began on July 10, 2008, I was the moderator and Executive Producer of a TV show called "MAGAZINE TRUJILLANO" in the regional television station of the city of Valera; TOTAL TV. My guest was Dr. Gassan Al Maaz (Former Director of the Valera's Central Hospital), FUNDASALUD President, active member of the political party PSUV and intellectual leader of the feared groups TUPAMAROS and also partner and front head of Gilmer Viloria, Hugo Cabezas and Henry Rangel Silva, who are powerful corrupt rulers and narco-mafia with huge tentacles in branch. It all started normally; at the beginning of the interview and then I pushed and publicly denounce him, in his own face, since he boasted (and still boasts) of complete impunity for his crimes, I was aware of two cases of corruption implicating directly and fully him. He did not expect that I bring it up, as well as also he didn't knew that I had been researching journalistically his governance in the public service. The cases were: 1. CASE OF ADMINISTRATIVE CORRUPTION: A millionaire budget for the hospital during his service as director; money simply vanished while hospital patients died for lack of supplies. 2. KIDNAPPING OF CORPSES: As Director of the Valera's Central Hospital, Dr. Al Maaz kidnapped the corpses in the morgue as far of shutting doors to private mortuaries, in order to transfer the funeral services to a mortuary whose owner was his front head; wreaking chaos to the families of the deceased and private mortuaries. The interview could not be finished as Dr. Al Maaz very upset and in an aggressive way threw me in the face the glass of water he had in his hand and threatened me saying, "Look little lady, things won't stay like this, you'd better not put on the air this program"; and left the TV Station very upset. The next day, when I get to work I received the letter of dismissal, several coworkers told me that Dr. Al Maaz call very angry and demanded my immediate dismissal to the TV station board. On July 13, 2008, I received a threatening call: It was the voice of a man and he said, "you'll regret for getting involved into what's not f your business" On August 1, 2008, at dawn, someone shot at my house, a bullet hit the window of my room and another one in the window of my car. I made a complaint to the police and it never got any results. I kept getting text messages and threatening phone calls and as August 16, 2008 I was very scared and paranoid; because of so many problems, harassment, fear and anxiety about threats, we moved to a new city, Merida. My husband opened a restaurant and just a month later, on September 16, 2008, in our business we received a new threat written on paper and left under the door that said quote: "BEWARE". That same day I made again the complaint to the police and did not got any results. My husband and I started to observe the presence of Tupamaros groups on motorbikes outside the restaurant, they looked at us in an defiant mood, they took photos of us and also talked on the cell phone . On March 18, 2009 I was at a march of the opposition when military officers and Tupamaros headed towards to me, they struck me so extremely with a shotgun on my belly that it caused me the abortion of my 10 weeks pregnancy, two months later, in May 2009, we moved again, this time to the city of Porlamar on Margarita Island. Losing that baby was very traumatic for me; now, because of me, just to uphold our fundamental rights as citizens and not stay silent about the abuse, my family and I were under persecution and harassment, in addition with a brutal and excessive force military officers and tupamaros that threaded us every day. Given the strong influence of my pursuer I even lost my profession as no TV station or media wanted to hire me, I started to work as assistant manager at a hotel which attended regularly serving military personnel, and that was when it started again, the threats and harassment. Always when I left my work they were on bikes chasing me a group of Tupamaros. Watchman of the private community where we lived was constantly asked: "If I was there, If he could let them get in" ; the watchman always refused to give them any information nor let them get in. A day at the hotel lobby, a group of Tupamaros, entered and screaming my name and left me a message: "for past debts you will have to pay", I lost my job over this event. My life was a mess, and I had to remain hidden in a friend's house, rarely went out because of fear. I exchanged my car with my friend to mislead them and prevent them to recognize me. I was pregnant again and fear and scare was overcoming me. My husband traveled to USA because of work in November 2010, even with fear and scare I had to return to Valera city alone with my oldest daughter, I lived once again hidden without even leaving into the street because of fear, as a pregnant I was very vulnerable, until June 2011 we I went to USA with my husband, where we lead a quiet life, peaceful and safe. In June 2012, the contract and work visa of my husband was finished, we went back to Venezuela believing that after all this time everything would be calm, but it was not so; On July 10, 2012, I was with my husband celebrating my birthday at a restaurant in town, I went to get my phone that I had forgotten in the car and when I reached the parking, Dr. Al Maaz himself was waiting for me with two of his bodyguards. Dr. Al Maaz said "I thought you were no longer in this world" and hit me in the face, arms and belly. In that moment several people came and the problem cleared. Dr. Al Maaz left quickly with his bodyguards leaving me lying on the floor. My husband was told of what happened to me and he ran to get up and help me, took me to a hospital to get served, since I was very sore and bleeding from the mouth. From that time on it returned the threats and harassment and I had to get hided again, I was desperate, I fell into a depression when I found out that on April 12, 2013, government armed groups killed my colleague Doris Viloria Palomares; also wounding others colleagues by simply fact of been investigating corruption cases. I had good relationship with her and we had worked together on several journalistic investigations of corruption cases, it devastated me. I remained nearly six months in total confinement, I had exhausted all remedies and nothing worked, we were totally unprotected and I felt guilty, my husband had done some job search outside of Venezuela and he was called to work in Canada; we left Venezuela on January 21, 2013. We thought stay in Canada only for the time of my husband's contract because we love our country, our climate, our families, I do not speak English and I had faith that everything would change and that we would have a normal life again, we were planning our return in March 2015, on December 2014 I was surprised for my parents a trip to Canada, it made me happy until they said they had come personally to alert us that our situation is increasingly worse and more serious and they are worried because now even telephones or other means of communication are under surveillance and threats continue, in our social environment is known that we are planning to go back on March 2015 to Venezuela. A group of Tupamaros have made threats or "warnings" to my parents. As far that a tupamaro narrated a textual conversation I had with my father days before via SMS.
Conversation Between MY FATHER AND I:
"Dad I haircut baby's hair thinking that in shortly we will return to Venezuela; in March we can enjoy the warmth of the city, meet again and share in family, I miss you."
This frightens me greatly, since we have no privacy in our communication and our conversations are monitored by phone, email, social networks and even messaging.
My parents also complained threats to police, but everything remains the same, without law to halt this harassment or offer us security. That's why I decided to claim refuge in Canada due the imminent risk for my life and the life of my daughters and for our security; because of continuous threats and given the power of our teaser Dr. Al Maaz and its influential and mafia accomplices Gilmer Viloria, Hugo Cabezas and Henry Rangel Silva.
Spanish to English: Testimony General field: Other Detailed field: General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Source text - Spanish A mediados del mes de agosto del 2013 me distinguí con Jerson garzon a través de un chat llamado LATÍN AMERICAN CUPID Jerson me pareció un hombre muy apuesto y simpático, el empezó a hablarme y me pidió mi número de celular, facebook y skype. Hablábamos todos los días por estos medios ya que sentíamos que teníamos una fuerte atracción, duramos casi 4 meses de amistad y es ahí cuando decidimos conocernos en persona, Jerson compro un pasaje aéreo con destino a colombia, el día 15 de diciembre del 2013 llego a Bogotá, nos encontramos en un hotel llamado CASA POSADA AMELIA allí lo esperaba yo ansiosa y fue ese día que me pidió que fuéramos novios. Nos quedamos en el hotel 2 días, luego partimos hacia NEIVA donde actualmente vivo, Jerson se hospedó en la casa de su prima Jineth. El día 20 de diciembre Jerson y yo viajamos a florencia a la boda de su primo Anderson, allí conocí a algunos familiares de Jerson, nos quedamos 3 días en florencia y regresamos a neiva a festejar junto a mi familia las fiestas de Navidad y año nuevo. Cada día era un día maravilloso por que compartía con el hombre que amaba, Jerson regreso a Canadá el día 14 de enero del 2014. Fue tanto el amor que sentíamos que cada día nos extrañábamos mas y hablábamos de formalizar un hogar juntos, al cabo de 4 meses Jerson decide regresar a Colombia el día 17 de mayo del 2014, esta vez se hospedó en mi casa, mis padres y familiares los apreciaban mucho ya que es un Excelente hombre, pasado unos días regresa a Canada el día 8 de junio del 2014. Ya no soportábamos mas las distancias, sentíamos una fuerte tristeza puesto que siempre soñábamos con estar juntos y ya no separarnos, el 12 de junio mediante skype me propuso matrimonio y yo acepte encantada, pero no fijamos fecha de la boda. Mi suegra Arcelia rivera junto con mi cuñado Leonardo viajaron a Colombia a principios de julio del 2014 por asuntos familiares, no pensé jamás que mi novio Jerson regresaría a Colombia el 27 de julio del 2014 con el fin de casarnos, mi suegra Arcelia me ayudo con todos los preparativos para la boda civil, nosotros nos queríamos casar por la iglesia católica pero mi prometido solo contaba con pocos días en colombia, puesto que su jefe en Canadá le dio una semana de permiso. Nos casamos el día 31 de julio del 2014 en el municipio de AIPE- HUILA, colombia, en la boda asistieron al rededor de 12 personas puesto que era una boda muy privada, solo asistió nuestra familia mas allegada. Pasamos luna de miel en una finca en la vereda la Ulloa, en el departamento del Huila, la finca santa Catalina contaba con piscina, mesas de billar y un ambiente acogedor, ya estando casados convivíamos juntos como esposos en casa de mis padres. El día 5 de agosto mi esposo Jerson regresa a Canadá. Seguíamos con nuestras rutinas diarias el allá y yo aquí en Colombia, ya estando casados mi esposo y yo decidimos vivir juntos y romper con la distancia, optamos por convivir en Canadá y hasta la fecha seguimos esperando concretar los trámites de mi visa canadiense, mientras tanto el regresa a Colombia el día 15 de diciembre del 2015, como siempre lo esperaba yo en el mismo hotel, al siguiente día viajamos rumbo a neiva, planeamos una navidad y año nuevo diferente, puesto que mis hermanos que viajaron desde Brasil, mi suegra y su pareja, mi cuñada Paola y sus hijos y algunos amigos de Canadá viajaron a Colombia. pasamos juntas familias año nuevo en una finca en Valparaíso- caqueta, colombia. Esta vez convivíamos como esposos un mes y medio, viajamos a muchos lugares turísticos en Colombia, en compañía de nuestras familias .fueron días muy felices que jamás olvidaremos. El 26 de enero del 2015 regreso Jerson a Canadá, con la promesa de que este año por fin vamos a cortar con la distancia y convivir juntos hasta que la muerte nos separe.!
Translation - English In mid-August of 2013, I made out with Jerson Garzon through a chat site called LATIN AMERICAN CUPID, I found Jerson was a very handsome and friendly man, he started talking to me and asked for my cell number, facebook and skype. We talked every day thus, because we felt we had a strong attraction to each other, we last nearly four months of friendship and then, when we decided to meet in person, Jerson buy an air ticket to Colombia, on December 15th 2013 he came to Bogotá, we met in a hotel called CASA POSADA AMELIA, there I was waiting for him and I was anxious; that day he asked me to be girlfriend and boyfriend. We stayed at the hotel for two days; then we left Neiva where I actually live, Jerson stayed at his cousin's Jineth. On December 20th Jerson and I traveled to Florence to the wedding of his cousin Anderson, where I met some relatives of Jerson, we were for three days in Florence and returned to Neiva to celebrate with my family the Christmas and New Year . Every day was a wonderful day for me, I was spending time with the man I loved, Jerson return to Canada on January 14th, 2014. It was so much the love we felt that we missed every day more; and we talked about to settle a home together, after 4 months Jerson decides to return to Colombia on May 17th, 2014, this time he stayed at my house, my parents and family liked him because it is an excellent man, after a few days he went back to Canada on June 8th, 2014 . We could not stand no longer the distance, we felt a strong sadness since we always dreamed of being together and not separate, on June 12th through Skype he proposed marriage and I accept it delighted, but we did not set wedding date yet. My mother in law Arcelia Rivera along with my brother in law Leonardo, traveled to Colombia in early July 2014 by family matters, I never thought my boyfriend Jerson will be returning to Colombia on July 27th 2014 to get married with me, my mother in law Arcelia helped me with all arrangements for civil wedding, we wanted to marry in the Catholic Church but my fiancé had only few days in Colombia, since his boss in Canada gave him a week's leave. We got married on July 31st 2014, in the town of AIPE- Huila, Colombia, to the wedding attended around 12 people since it was a very private wedding, attended only our very close family. We spent our honeymoon in a farm in the town of La Ulloa, in the department of Huila, the Santa Catalina estate had pool, pool tables and a homely atmosphere, already being married together as spouses we lived together at my parent´s. On August 5th, Jerson my husband went back to Canada. We continued with our daily routines, he there and I here in Colombia, now married my husband and I decided to live together and break the distance, we chose to live in Canada and to date we are still waiting to finalize the paperwork for my Canadian visa, meanwhile he returned to Colombia on December 15th 2015, as usual, I waited him at the same hotel, the next day we traveled towards Neiva, we planned a different Christmas and New Year, since my brothers who traveled from Brazil, my mother in law and her boyfriend, my sister Paola and her children and some friends from Canada traveled to Colombia. Our families spent together new year on a farm in Valparaiso-Caqueta, Colombia. This time we lived together as husband and wife for a month and half, we traveled to many tourist sites in Colombia, together with our families. Those were very happy days that we will never forget. On January 26th 2015, Jerson returned to Canada with the promise that this year we will finally cut the distance and live together until death tear us apart!
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