MERIDA, Mexico -. Samantha de la Caridad Hernandez Garcia, The four-year-old girl from La Güinera who had been missing since Monday, appeared this Saturday.
“Thank God my mother found her in Marianao today. She already has her and took her to the hospital so the doctors can examine her,” she told Cubanet the girl’s father, who declined to provide further details.
José, father of Samantha de la Caridad Hernández García, resident in the Havana neighborhood of La Güinera, belonging to the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo. commented to Cubanet on Friday 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, there had been no news from her. Samantha’s mother had told her she intended to take her to the beach to “dry out” the impetigo that the girl has, which has spread all over her body, “including her scalp.”
José and his family, as well as other people close to the little girl’s mother, had not been able to verify whether the trip to the beach had ever taken place or whether they were safe, having stayed somewhere else.
The paternal relatives filed a complaint with the police, but the authorities did not provide any information about the case.
They also had no way of communicating with Yunisleydy García, because her cell phone was broken, as she told the girl’s father.
“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.
Mayde Alert
An article published in 2023 in the magazine Alas Tensas 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, The Mayde Alert proposal was launched for missing persons in Cuba and inspired by the case of Havana teenager Maydeleisis Rosales, who 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 missing women and Mayde Alert for missing children.
