Diana Carolina Espinosa, 29, died at 06:00 on May 22, 2021 at the Enrique Garcés hospital, after spending two days in a coma. The cause of her death is being investigated by the Prosecutor's Office and her father, Arturo Espinosa, asks the authorities that the investigations be carried out with transparency and efficiency:
“The life of our family was destroyed after the death of my daughter, a young professional and mother who was one of the pillars we had in the house; next to her we were all happy, very united. This case is being investigated by the Prosecutor's Office and I only ask the authorities that the investigations be carried out efficiently.
Everything changed for us. I work in a taxi and it's hard for me to go out to work because I think about her all the time, she lives in my mind. Several times while I work I have had to stop the march of the car to cry remembering her. People stare at me, but it is inevitable to endure bitterness. Some passengers who asked me for races have tried to comfort me when I couldn't hold back crying.
Sometimes I have not been able to work for grief and support my family properly.
On other occasions I have recorded videos with my cell phone expressing my pain and anguish. I have even made transmissions on the Facebook Live platform that are published on the Justice for Diana Espinosa account, in which we explained with my family, in detail, what happened on that fateful May 19.
We created it with the purpose of asking for justice, since our family is still dismayed, ashamed without knowing what to do, with despair. Now we are confused because we can no longer enter the account, it seems that it was 'hacked'. The only channel we had to inform the public about what is happening to us stopped working.
My head hurts a lot, I feel anxiety, depression. I can't sleep peacefully because while I rest, I dream of my daughter and I wake up crying. It is an emptiness in the heart that I cannot describe.
I spend all my time remembering when she was born in 1992. At that time I was 19 years old and working as a maintenance worker in a public entity. She took her out to play in the park, took her to children's parties, to school, bought her toys, clothes. That's why now it's too hard for me to believe and accept that he's no longer with me.
Not even when my mother died last year did I feel as much pain as I do now. My mother had severe diabetes and she was not careful when eating, even though we warned her and advised her to take care of her health, but what happened to my daughter was a real nightmare because she was a very responsible and studious girl. She finished high school at the Quito school with good grades and graduated as an accounting and audit engineer from the Technical University of Cotopaxi. She was my pride because she was a great professional.
His teachers congratulated him on his academic performance. He worked in banks and private companies. Due to the pandemic, he lost his job and applied for a position in a savings and credit cooperative. Everything was ready for him to work there, but when his new bosses called him to join the job, we had to tell them that he had passed away and to find someone else.
One of his goals was to pursue a master's degree. She was also preparing to apply to the Ecuadorian Air Force specialist officer course. He wanted to be in the military and raise his 10-year-old son, who is with a psychologist, can't sleep and every day asks for his mother. Search for her on social media. She spends watching videos that Diana recorded on TikTok, which hurts her.
She longed to travel the world with her son and work hard to save for that goal. Our little boy is with his father since Diana had separated from her husband. The baby's life was ruined since he was very attached to his mother. Imagine, when you are a child you do not want to be separated from your mother even to go to the store. Now he lives very difficult moments at his young age.
Every day we remember Diana Carolina in our house with my wife and my other daughter Malena, 19 years old. We talked about how she was very charitable, she liked to help and she was cheerful. That's why we decided to give away some of her belongings to the people who really need them, as she would have done if she were alive.
In fact, my taxi was stolen a year ago and Diana insisted on helping me buy another vehicle so I can work in peace. I never accepted him out of shame, I didn't want to worry him. She had a good heart and that is why she is in heaven watching over us.
Many people have shown solidarity and we have received hundreds of messages of support through social networks. Even a feminist organization is with us monitoring our case and we plan to hold several sit-ins to demand justice. God bless you for your help in these difficult times. They provide us with advice and I am always going to the Prosecutor's Office to find out how the investigations are progressing.
Her career
Diana Espinosa was born on May 27, 1992 in Quito. She attended high school at Colegio Quito. He obtained engineering in Accounting and Auditing at the Technical University of Cotopaxi. He had a 10-year-old son. He died on May 22, 2021 after spending two days in a coma. He suffered severe blows to the head after a traffic incident in the Monseñor Leonidas Proaño neighborhood, in the south of the Metropolitan District.
