A former FAR officer is detained in Cuba after being returned by the U.S. in a group of rafters.

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) repatriated 41 Cuban migrants on Friday, among whom was a former officer of the Cuban Armed Forces (FAR), who is being held in the 100 and Aldabó prison in Havana by the regime.

Roxanna Pérez Rodríguez, 27 years old, held the rank of first lieutenant in the FAR. However, the young woman had requested her discharge from that Ministry.

On June 6, the former officer had sent a brief resignation note addressed to the personnel officer of Military Unit 2133, stating that she was "disappointed" and claimed she could not "perform her duties properly." "My financial situation does not allow me to take care of my family and work at the same time," she emphasized.

Pérez highlighted in her letter, accessed by the media outlet Click-Cuba, the treatment she received as an FAR official, which she and her colleagues regarded as unsatisfactory and not in line with their expectations.

He took the opportunity to mention that his sisters on his mother's side had already left the country and that his mother planned to emigrate soon. This family context further motivated his decision to leave military service in order to reunite with his family outside Cuba.

The former military officer was serving a 10-month sentence that restricted her movements from her home to work for maintaining a romantic relationship with a Cuban-American citizen.

At the time of learning about her detention by the USCG, the family members expressed concern about the possible deportation of the former military officer and the consequences it would have. This fact ultimately occurred on Friday, the day she was returned along with Yariel Duarte Rodríguez and Yohandra Miranda, with whom she had left in a raft on August 15.

The profile La Tijera added that after her arrival on Cuban soil, Pérez was able to communicate with her family. The Cuban police and State Security informed her relatives that "they could bring her toiletries because things with her were going to be long."

Upon their arrival, the Cubans were attended to by medical services due to their state of dehydration and exhaustion, common symptoms in people who have been exposed to the harsh conditions of the sea for prolonged periods.

Despite the warnings and the risk of deportation, attempts by Cubans to reach the United States or Mexico by sea continue in the context of the Cuban migration crisis.