Who was Ana Basaldua, the Mexican soldier who was found dead in a battalion?

The death of soldier Ana Basulda occurred at the same military base where soldier Vanessa Guillen disappeared in 2020.

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Ana Fernanda Basaldua Ruiz, 20 years old, is the name of the Mexican soldier and naturalized in the United States, who was found dead at the military base in Fort Hood, Texas, on Monday, March 13. According to her mother, Alejandra Ruiz Zarco, at 1:10 pm on March 13, she received a call in which a soldier told her about the death of her daughter. She told him that she had committed suicide.

“These days are frighteningly horrible. I refuse to think that was it (about his daughter’s suicide). She wasn’t like that. I don’t accept that. She doesn’t check me (block), because of my daughter’s characteristics, ”said Mrs. Ruiz to Univisión News.

“She told me that a sergeant was harassing her, that they were all bastards and that they just wanted to fuck her. Everyone wants me, everyone wants me to sleep with them,” added the mother of the dead soldier to Telemundo.

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Ana Basaldua, the soldier

“When she left, she gave me a printed mug,” he told the news. In the mug that Mrs. Ruiz comments on, she finds a photo in which she appears with her daughters, Ana and Natalie. Also, she has a phrase that says “We do not travel to escape life, we travel so that life does not escape us.”

Ana left Tacámbaro, a municipality located in Mexico, in the state of Michoacán, in December 2019 and moved to the United States, where her father Ubaldo Zabalduo lives and is a citizen. When she arrived, Ana was able to enlist in the army without much problem. “She always liked discipline, she felt that within the military camp, she could have a better standard of living,” their relatives assure.

In a statement sent to Noticias Telemundo, the military base reported: “Sadly, the First Cavalry Division lost the trooper Ana Basaldua Ruiz, a combat engineer who has served in the division for the past 15 months. The Army Criminal Investigation Division and the chain of command are actively investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding her death. The chain of command is in contact with her family to keep them informed and provide them with any information that can be disseminated. In addition, it is giving support and resources to the family and the troopers who served with her.”

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Despite denying the version that her daughter committed suicide, Mrs. Alejandra Ruiz accepted that her daughter was going through some sad months in her life and that she was undergoing psychological treatment, but she assures that “She experienced much stronger things in Mexico than what they tell me she was living there.”

Fort Hood Military Base

This news revived the case of another young Mexican woman who was serving in the military at Fort Hoodas Ana. This is the case of disappearance and murder of Vanessa Guillén.

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This event occurred on April 22, 2020, when she was declared missing inside this base. Not knowing his whereabouts was a torment for his relatives for two months, until they found the remains of the young woman in June of the same year.

According to investigations, the reason for his disappearance was for an alleged case of sexual harassment in which Guillén defended herself and was subsequently hammered to death by the guy who tried to abuse her, Army Specialist Aaron David Robinson. Despite the efforts of the authorities, Robinson’s motives are not really known, because before being captured he committed suicide.