Jorge Quispe / La Paz
On December 17 of last year, Vanesa Aquino Condori qualified as a lawyer and disappeared six days later, two days before her 25th birthday. The young woman from El Alto left her house in San Roque on the afternoon of December 23, heading for La Ceja, to collect a deposit. At night she communicated with her mother and since then she has been missing.
“She is still missing and we still hope that the Police can find her because it has been three months. We want her to come back, ”says Rodrigo, one of her five brothers. Relatives who even look for information at land terminals in El Alto and La Paz, hope to find the young woman who graduated as a lawyer from the Public University of El Alto (UPEA) in December and who helped her mother in the sale of salteñas and llauchas in the fairs of that city.
That Thursday, December 23, Vanesa left her home in the Rey de Reyes neighborhood of San Roque, dressed in a light brown jacket, black sweatshirt and pink tennis shoes, and headed to La Ceja to make a withdrawal of money that her father had send. At night, she contacted her mother, Martina, at 11:00 p.m. and told her that she was going to stay with her ex-partner, Ángel C.
Then, without any explanation, the cell phone was turned off, but it was turned on at dawn and no one answered, say his brothers Rodrigo and Aydé.
That was the last communication with Vanesa. Her mother and her brothers later reported the disappearance of the young woman who was going to turn 25 on December 25. “He (ex-boyfriend) says that he left her that night in the foreigner (in Río Seco), then the police sent us from one place to the other,” says Aydé.
The ex-partner initially refused to hand over her cell phone for investigative expertise, then indicated that she had lost it, but finally gave the device to the Police. They found no clues about Vanesa’s disappearance; Due to lack of evidence, he was no longer summoned and the man’s whereabouts are now unknown.
“We have run around (in the complaints) also with him (Ángel C.) and he told me that he has not killed her,” said Martina, who this week came to the Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc) of La Paz to ask that they speed up the investigation of the disappearance of their daughter in the city of El Alto.
Aydé says that there is already a history of violence by the ex-boyfriend towards her sister. “Vanesa told us that he hit her (in October) and we told him to cut off (her relationship), but he always called her, he wouldn’t leave her,” he says. He added that Vanesa had as a suitor a prosecutor, about whom he spoke little. It is unknown if the alleged prosecutor was summoned to testify.
The deputy director of the Felcc La Paz, Juan José Donaire, declared during the week that the Police activated all the mechanisms to find the young woman. “In this framework, the investigation will be carried out to give certainty to the family and we are activating all the mechanisms within our reach.” The relatives ask for greater speed in the investigation.
During the week, the relatives of the young woman protested in La Ceja with posters asking the population to help them find Vanesa. “We want my sister back,” prayed one of them.
The family regretted that there are no videos from the surveillance cameras of La Ceja, an area where Vanesa supposedly went on the afternoon of December 23, nor are there any images of the moment in which Ángel C. supposedly left her in the Río Seco foreigner. , one of the most dangerous sectors of the Alteña city.
The relatives ask the population to give information on the whereabouts of Vanesa to the telephone number 672-20643, in addition to the Police telephone numbers, 120, 122, 2810525 and 800140245.
Other data
- titled Vanesa Aquino Condori graduated as a lawyer on December 17 from the UPEA and her family threw a small party for her.
- dreams The young lawyer from El Alto had big dreams in her new stage as a professional and also wanted to specialize, say her brothers Rodrigo and Aydé.
- Mother Martina, Vanesa’s mother, walks with her daughter’s photo in the terminals and the Police look for information.
