The singer Gloria Trevi (c) next to her then manager Sergio Andrade (left) and María Raquenel Portillo shortly after her capture in Brazil (Source: JB/Portal).
Among the many sad episodes that occurred in the relationship between them Gloria Trevi, Maria Raquenel Portillo and Sergio Andrade, the death of Ana DalayDaughter of the First, was one of the most mysterious due to all the versions that have been told about the story.
In the late 1990s, the trio were wanted by police on child abduction and corruption allegations. After his arrest in Brazil in 2000, it was revealed that the singer had given birth to a girl and that the father was Andrade himself, but this was not the case The minor died for reasons that remain unclear more than 20 years later..
Gloria, Sergio and María Raquenel (also known as Mary Boquitas) lived as refugees and isolated in an apartment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where Marlene Calderón, Katia de la Cuesta and her sisters Karla and Karola, Liliana Regueiro and Sonia Ríos were also staying stayed present. and Karina Yapor.
Most of them have given their version of the day the little girl died and agree on some aspects, such as that Ana Dalay was alone in a room and when they checked on her, she was no longer breathing. Gloria herself has addressed the problem: “Honestly I think it was infant death, but that I could see it with doctors that they could tell me, no,” she said in an interview in Spain last January.
The girl’s death was truly tragic in itself, but what happened to her body is more disturbing.
Yapor claims in his book Revelations, My Bitter Experiences… that it was Trevi himself who suffocated her daughter by placing a pile of blankets on her, and that Portillo dismembered the body before disposing of it, all on Andrade’s orders . Gloria said one of the girls told her that they took the girl to a hospital, where they issued a death certificate for her and buried her. One said they threw them into a river, and another said they threw them into a canal with dirty water.
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“I spoke to this person and everything he told me was something the Lord asked him to do. But she was a different person who was afraid,” the singer said in the January interview.
María Raquenel was waiting for the moment to tell her story and remember what she experienced one day in November 1999.
![Backing singer for the former Mexican pop star [Gloria Trevi]Maria Raquenel Portillo leaves the hospital in Brasilia, March 31, 2003. [Raquenel, Trevi and the former manager Sergio Andrade were arrested on January 13, 2000 in Rio de Janeiro. Raquenel was sent back to Mexico on Monday to face Mexican authorities on charges of sexual abuse.]](https://www.spamchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1695967466_120_Mary-Boquitas-tells-her-version-of-the-death-of-Ana.jpeg "Mary Boquitas tells her version of the death of Ana Dalay, Gloria Trevi's daughter, and what happened next 4")
Backing singer for the former Mexican pop star [Gloria Trevi]Maria Raquenel Portillo leaves the hospital in Brasilia, March 31, 2003. [Raquenel, Trevi and the former manager Sergio Andrade were arrested on January 13, 2000 in Rio de Janeiro. Raquenel was sent back to Mexico on Monday to face Mexican authorities on charges of sexual abuse.]
Without a funeral or holy burial
Since his release following allegations of kidnapping and corruption of minors, Portillo has preferred to stay away from the so-called Trevi-Andrade clan, but always with the promise that one day he will tell his story.
In the En boca close podcast, Mary Boquitas has been revealing part of this story since April last year and dedicates an entire episode to what happened to Ana Dalay and her involvement in the girl’s death Her story is also an intimate example of a mother’s most painful episode..
He remembered what happened on Saturday, November 13, 1999. “Katia entered the room with Ana Dalay lifeless in her arms and Sergio made the morbid but accurate remark, ‘Is she alive?’ While Gloria doesn’t stop screaming, Sergio grabs her.” Ana Dalay from Katia’s arms repeats: “What’s wrong, what’s wrong?” I stand next to Sergio and try to help him while Ana Dalay thinks she’s going to fall because her arms are shaking so much. Liliana asked, surprised by the scene she sees “What happened?”, “I don’t know, I don’t know” I shout a little relieved by the presence of Liliana, always strong and always determined to act. Liliana grabs the girl with much more control than anyone else, ready to revive her, and Sergio throws himself on the floor to hug Gloria.
Liliana and María Raquenel, as their former colleagues said, were the ones who did everything to save the baby, but there was nothing to be done. During their experiments, they thought they heard her breathing, but that wasn’t true: “We notice that the baby has been lifeless for a long time, it is cold as an iceberg.”
According to the former choir singer’s story, Sergio and Gloria were left alone with their daughter’s body. The former manager was the first to leave the room and, in his own way, asked for advice on what to do next. Portillo would have suggested that they pray for the girl and watch over her, which he agreed to. “When I finish my prayer, Gloria begins another, ending with the words I will never forget: ‘Little Virgin, I give her to you.’ Immediately afterwards, she throws herself on the floor and screams, covering her mouth to avoid making a fuss. It was a short and improvised funeral service.“.
That Saturday, on Sergio’s express orders, someone put the blanket over Ana Dalay’s head, and it could have been what suffocated her, or it could have been sudden death, infant death syndrome, which claimed the lives of some newborns, or who knows , that It could have been a sudden heart attack, I could never say what caused the little four week old baby to stop breathing. I will never be able to know for sure what cost him his life. This death was not intentional.María Raquenel Portillo
Portillo said he was next to the singer the entire time, unable to find the words to comfort her and afraid she would get hurt, while Andrade lurked and asked for silence, afraid the neighbors would notice what was going on inside.
While it remains a mystery what happened, Raquenel actually has a culprit for this: the lifestyle imposed by the producer. “Without visits to the pediatrician, without the freedom to look after and look after them freely. I insist ad nauseam: no one, absolutely no one, moved a finger without Sergio’s permission. Maybe if I had let Gloria go to the doctor sooner, maybe something could have been done.
Ana Dalay’s body remained in the apartment for a day until Gloria requested her burial. María Raquenel offered to fulfill the singer’s wish, but Andrade refused and ordered Liliana Regueiro to do it.
Portillo was in charge of cooking that day, but her mind was not on that activity: “I became very dizzy from trying to control crying so much and closed the door so no one could see me in that state. I think I had a seizure. Anxiety or my blood pressure dropped because I hadn’t eaten anything since the day before. I felt like I was dying, I fainted and cried silently. I asked God, “Why, what comes to an innocent being?” Why did you allow it after that? and I stayed alone in the kitchen for a long time, sitting on the floor with the door closed and sobbing, and for the first time in my life I felt hatred towards Sergio, hatred, anger, anger, something unthinkable.
After loving him blindly for 16 years, even as he subjected me to the most unspeakable tortures and refused my kisses and hugs, I felt something that was not love, attraction or obsession towards him. I was angry and wished for his death for the first time. “Why, God, did you take her and not him?”María Raquenel Portillo
Ana Dalay’s body disappeared from the apartment and, as she said, she never knew what the orders were. “Over the years and in the statements some of the girls provided to authorities, they said Sergio allegedly ordered them to bury them in a riverside park, but if they were discovered they would quickly get rid of them.” I never saw which pocket they put it in or which direction they went, they never told me because the teacher ordered it that way. That it should never be discussed between us or with anyone again.”
Almost 24 years later, no one knows where Ana Dalay’s body rests, possibly not even the women who had to carry it, and having no place to bring her flowers is one of the singer’s greatest pains.
Gloria Trevi once stated that the sad death of her baby made her a better person and that she always thinks about it. “I have not lost a daughter, I have a daughter and it is my starry path to heaven. I know that my daughter is where the people we love are who are no longer on earth. They are with God and they are with me.”