They locate a teenager who was missing in Havana

María de las Mercedes, a Cuban teenager of just 14 years old who was missing in Havana since Friday morning, has been found safe and sound.

The news wasconfirmed on Instagram by the events reporter Niover Licea citing the testimony of sources close to the minor's family.

The teenager - known by those close to her as "Capullo" - was found around noon on Monday in good health, althoughNo other details have been released about the circumstances of his disappearance and subsequent discovery.

The minor wasmissing since March 22, when she had been last seen near Calzada de Buenos Aires, in the Cerro municipality.

“Wanted, she is my cousin, her name is María de las Mercedes, well known by Capullo, she is 14 years old, she has not been seen since yesterday morning, we are desperate, we are from Cerro”, Facebook user La Cosi Bella wrote to notify the disappearance and released a phone number.

Until the closing of this note, the aforementioned source has not updated the discovery of her relative on Facebook, although comments in other social media groups where the news of the disappearance was spread confirm, as Licea has done, that the teenager is already found. with his family.

Reports of disappearances of Cubans have become more frequent in recent months, as well as the publication of requests for help through social networks to obtain information, in the midst of a context of growing violence in the country.

At this time, the search remains active for the young Karildi Marín, 24 years old, whoShe has been missing since the night of December 14. That day the young woman, who lives in Párraga, in the Havana municipality of Arroyo Naranjo, went to a party in Cerro and her family never heard from her again.

Much more recent is thedisappearance of Lali Paola Moliner, a three-year-old Cuban girl resident in the Bahía neighborhood, in the Habana del Este municipality, whose whereabouts have been unknown since March 3. In that case, the minor was last seen in the company of her mother, whose body was found on March 4 on the coast of Cojímar.

Especially shocking is the story of the teenager Maydeleisis Rosales Rodríguez,who disappeared almost three years ago in Havana and whose mother lamented in recent statements to the independent press outletCubaNet not having information about her daughter and being harassed by the repressive organs of the Cuban regime.