MERIDA, Mexico -. Barbara Lozano Pendones, BabyThe 44-year-old woman, resident in the Havana municipality of San Miguel del Padrón, who was absent from her home, was found.
“We consider the alert closed (…) she is already at home and has been seen by neighbors at her home. We appreciate the support of all the people in this case of high vulnerability and with very limited support networks,” reported on Facebook the YoSíTeCreo platform in Cuba, who issued a Yeniset Alert on Friday to locate her.
Lozano Pendones went missing on August 19 from the door of his house (Calle 6ta., No. 4225, between Central and 24 de Febrero, in Martín Pérez, San Miguel del Padrón municipality, Havana).
The woman suffers from paranoid schizophrenia at a psychotic level and had not received her medication due to the lack of fluphenazine decanoate, a drug that must be administered monthly by the Public Health system. In addition, she suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.
This is the first time Barbara has been away from home, which has caused great concern, especially for the well-being of her nine-year-old daughter.
Mayde Alert and Yeniset Alert
In the article “Disappeared in Cuba”, published in February 2023 in the magazine Alas Tensas, the journalist and feminist activist Marta Maria Ramirez dShe highlighted “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 same article, the journalist and activist launched her proposal for a Mayde Alert for missing persons in Cuba, inspired by the case of Havana teenager Maydeleisis Rosales, who has not been heard from for three years.
The Yeniset Alert is inspired by the case of Yeniset Rojas Pérez, who disappeared for 10 months in the municipality of Ranchuelo, in Villa Clara. On January 23, 2023, after locating the body, the young woman’s family confirmed what was already assumed to be a femicide.
For Ramírez, the case of Maydeleisis Rosales in particular revealed that Cuba did not have (and still does not have) a protocol for the disappearance of children.
“The police response not only reveals a significant lack of protocol, but also a failure to comply with what the Cuban State has said it does not only within Cuba, but outside of Cuba,” Ramírez told Cubanet last March.
