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They ask for help to locate a Cuban rafter missing at sea after leaving for the US.

The name is Yenrry Montufar Rodríguez, who was accompanied by another young man, identified as Roberto Madruga.

Yenrry Montufar Rodríguez y Roberto Madruga, balseros desaparecidos © Facebook/Yenrry Montufar Rodríguez y Roberto Madruga
Yenrry Montufar Rodríguez and Roberto Madruga, missing rafters Photo © Facebook/Yenrry Montufar Rodríguez and Roberto Madruga

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Family and friends of the young Cuban Yenrry Montufar Rodríguez They ask for help on social networks to locate him, after nine days after embarking on a boat trip to the United States and showing no signs of life.

“This here is my uncle. Yenrry Montufar Rodríguez"He left on April 14 on a boat (nine days ago now) and we don't know anything about him," Liz Crespo, who according to her profile lives in Havana, posted on Facebook this Saturday.

In his post, Crespo asks “anyone who knows something about him exactly to write to us or share this publication, so we can see if someone tells us something and helps us... his family and friends are very worried about him.” (in total there are two, him and another person). “I ask you to please help us get news about them.”

In the comments of the publication, the user identified as Nayade Albuerne pointed out that the other young man who accompanies Montufar Rodríguez is named Roberto Madruga.

“It is the other boy, my neighbor... what the Cuban has to do for a better future for himself and his people...,” he expressed.

In another reaction, an Internet user named Damara Rodríguez says that the Yenrry parents live three houses from hers in Jaimanitas, a town located west of the Playa municipality, in Havana.

The case of these two missing young people is not the only one in recent days, since A Cuban family is reported missing since they left the country on a boat called El Tridente, bound for the United States, on April 4.

It is about the marriage of Ana Irsia Landa Méndez and Alberto Expósito Gudes with his two year old child, Kris Ángel Expósito Landa.

In statements to CyberCuba Landa Méndez's sister explained that her mother is shocked and they are waiting for news that will give everyone peace of mind.

"All the families are desperate both there in the United States and here. We are dying of anguish," confirmed the young woman.

The missing Cuban rafters are residents of Playa Baracoa, in the Bauta municipality, in the Artemisa province. Since March, they put their house and other properties up for sale on social media.

They left the Cuban coast at night, around 11:35 pm. They were traveling on the El Tridente boat along with five other adults and two minors called Alejandra Mesa López, 16 years old, and Eloy Perez, of four. In total there were 10 people on the boat.

Also on the border route between Mexico and the United States there are other cases of missing Cubans.

This Friday it emerged that family and friends of the Cuban Roiler Camejo Velázquez They asked for help to locate him after he disappeared in the Rio Grande while trying to cross into US territory through the Mexican town of Piedras Negras.

Camejo Velázquez attempted to cross the dangerous tributary on the night of April 16 through the area that divides Piedras Negras, Coahuila, from Eagle Pass, Texas, confirmed to CyberCuba a familiar.

The man, 36 years old and a resident of the Las 40 neighborhood in Las Tunas, was trying to get to the United States from the border city and crossed the Rio Grande with his uncle to enter through Texas.

In addition to this Cuban, also another is missing who tried to cross illegally into the US from Mexico across the sea.

The Cuban immigrant, whose identity has not been revealed, tried to cross on April 12, around 2:00 p.m. through Playas de Tijuana, in the area where the border wall between Mexico and the United States is being built, which goes into about 100 meters in the sea.

Rescuers said the chances of him still being alive were very slim, given how long he had been missing, and they hoped the waves would bring the body to shore.

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