SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- A Cuban father cried for help to find the whereabouts of his daughter four years old, resident in the Havana neighborhood of La Güinera, belonging to the Arroyo Naranjo municipality.
Jose, father of Samantha de la Caridad Hernandez Garcia, commented to CubaNet that the last time he and his family heard from the girl and her mother, Yunisleydy García, was around Monday.
The father, who currently lives in Brazil, said that his mother and his brother were constantly coming to the girl’s house to bring her food, medicine and other products.
However, they have not heard from her. Samantha’s mother had expressed her intention to take her to the beach to “dry out” the impetigo that the girl has, which has spread throughout her body, “including her scalp.”
José and his family, as well as other relatives of the little girl’s mother, have not been able to verify whether the trip to the beach ever took place or whether they are safe, staying somewhere else. They have already filed a complaint with the police but the authorities have not given them any information about the case.
They also had no way of communicating with Yunisleydy García, since her cell phone was broken, as she told the girl’s father.
The man asks for help to obtain any information and warns that the little girl’s illness could worsen if left untreated.
“The illnesses are getting worse, my daughter is at risk of serious illness when the infection strikes. I only want my daughter to be found, I need to confirm that she is safe and sound,” she said.
He also asked to share his phone number to provide any information that might shed light on the whereabouts of his daughter and her mother. The numbers are +55 95 9135-6888, for José, and 56851571, for an aunt of the girl.
Mayde Alert
An article published in 2023 in the journal Tense Wings She denounced “the lack of specific protocols for the disappearance of women on the island,” as well as “the failures of a system that refuses to recognize and act on a reality that is increasingly frequently denounced in public.”
In the text, he launched his proposal for a Mayde Alert for missing persons in Cuba and inspired by The case of the Havana teenager Maydeleisis Rosaleswho has not been heard from for three years.
This is a citizen alert inspired by the Amber Alert, an acronym for “America’s Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response” and the name of the nine-year-old American girl Amber Hagerman, kidnapped and murdered in January 1996.
The Cuban state does not implement any mechanism to make cases of missing persons visible, not even if they are minors, such as the Amber alert used in the United States.
For this reason, the independent platform YoSíTeCreo in Cuba and civil society on the Island created two citizen alerts: Yeniset Alert for disappearances of women and Mayde Alert for missing children.
