The teenager Maydeleisis Rosales Rodríguez was last seen four and a half years ago. Now his mother is receiving threats on Messenger.
HAVANA, Cuba. – “I am being threatened by the networks,” she denounced during an interview with CubaNet Isis Rodríguez Ameneiro, mother of the teenager Maydeleisis Rosales Rodríguez, missing since May 30, 2021.
Rodríguez Ameneiro assured that since last week she has been receiving messages with death threats directed at both her daughter and her. The messages are sent from the Facebook profile identified as “Caimán Caimán” which also demands that he deliver the sum of 30,000 pesos to recover his daughter, who was 16 years old at the time of her disappearance.
“I don’t know if it is a fake profile or if this person really exists, but he is extorting me, he is threatening to kill my daughter and kill me. I am afraid because I don’t know if the threat is real or just an attempt to scam me using my pain and suffering,” the woman denounced.
Among the messages sent to Rodríguez Ameneiro through Messenger – which were reviewed by CubaNet– phrases appear like: “Look how your daughter’s throat is slit. Give me a minute to send you a video, so you can see that I don’t play.”
“He told me that if I didn’t send the money to a card number (9227 0699 9085 5471) that he sent me, he would kill my daughter and me because no one would catch him, he told me,” the Cuban mother said.
Rodríguez Ameneiro assured that he tried to report the situation at the Zanja police unit, in Havana, last Thursday. However, he adds, the authorities only took note and evaded him. “I reported what was happening to me, but the response was that it could be a fake profile and that it cannot be traced. They did not give me help, protection or security, nor did they tell me: ‘Look, don’t worry, nothing is going to happen to you,'” he said.
The woman said she felt “depressed” and “fearful” because “there are many people who have no scruples who want to make money” from “any misfortune.”
On May 30, 2026, it will be five years since the disappearance of Maydeleisis Rosales Rodríguez. To date, her family still has no news of her. The teenager was last seen in the Campanario and Malecón park, in the municipality of Centro Habana, a few meters from her home.
After the disappearance, the mother went so far as to offer 5,000 pesos to anyone who offered her any information about her daughter’s whereabouts.
The teenager’s case even inspired the creation of the Mayde Alert, which arose with the intention of helping to find missing minors alive on the Island. The initiative is inspired by the Amber Alert, the acronym for “Americas Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response” (in Spanish: Emergency notice for disappearance in the United States) and the name of the nine-year-old American girl Amber Hagerman, kidnapped and murdered in January 1996.
