MIAMI, United States. – The teenager Melani Hernández Cruz, 16 years old, has been missing since this Monday, November 11 in Havanareported her mother, Susana Cruz, in several Facebook posts in which she asked for help to locate her.
According to Cruz, his daughter was last seen at 8:15 in the morning at the doors of her school, the “Raúl Cepero Bonilla” Polytechnic, located near Red Square, in Havana. “My 16-year-old girl left school today and has not returned. Please, if anyone sees her, we are desperate,” the mother wrote in your first publication.
The teenager did not go to class that day and since then her family has had no news about her whereabouts, Cruz said. Melani was wearing a blue school skirt, a white sweater and had a white yabó turban on her head. Additionally, she currently has short shoulder-length hair.
“Please, any information that can help us, we are desperate,” Cruz said in a second post.
In statements to CubaNetthe woman reported that her daughter’s cell phone “is turned off,” which has increased the family’s concern.
CubaNet He asked the family if they had reported the disappearance to the National Revolutionary Police (PNR), but until the time of publication of this note he had not received a response.
The scenario of disappearances of women in Cuba continues to be alarming, with several active cases verified by independent organizations such as the platform IYesI Believe in Cuba and the Magazine Gender Observatory Tense Wings (OGAT).
Due to the lack of protocols for cases of disappearances on the Island, journalist and activist Marta María Ramírez proposed the creation of alerts Mayde (for the disappearance of girls, boys and adolescents) and Yeniset (for the disappearance of women).
For the journalist, the case of the teenager Maydeleisis Rosales, who disappeared in May 2021 at only 16 years old, revealed that the Cuban authorities did not have any protocol for cases of disappearances of girls and boys.
“The Police response not only reveals a lack of important protocol, but also a failure to comply with what the Cuban State has said it does,” Ramírez told CubaNet in March of this year.
“Disappeared people have the right to be searched and found even if it is a voluntary disappearance,” the journalist also assured this medium.
