At least 20 Cubans have been missing at sea for nine days after leaving for the United States.

At least 20 Cubans have been missing at sea for nine days, after leaving for the United States through a coastal area of the province of Villa Clara, according to information provided by a family source to CyberCuba.

According to statements by the daughter of one of the missing people, they are from the municipality of Colón, in Matanzas, and went out to sea on April 18, after remaining hidden for a week in the mountains.

He explained that on that trip his mother, Yamarys Molina Molina, his cousin Maikel Molina and Esliet Rodríguez, a family friend, were among the group of about 20 people in total.

“Nine days without hearing from them, after leaving Cuba by sea and they do not help us with clear answers. Please, we are devastated by not knowing about our relatives and others exactly,” he commented.

She also stated that she found out and learned that they left from Villa Clara and that there were around 20 people.

“There were no children going as far as I know, only men and women,” he noted.

“From what I found out, because I didn't know, they didn't tell me so as not to worry me, they spent about seven days in a mountain and left on the 18th in a large boat, I think it was made by them,” he said.

“We are all very worried, since my mother suffers from epilepsy. My mom is my everything and this wait of not knowing is very sad. She is 48 years old; my cousin, 36, and Esliet, 28,” he said.

In addition, he gave the names of the Cubans who were traveling on the boat, which he has been able to compile so far:

- Yamarys Molina Molina

-Maikel Molina

- Esliet Rodríguez

- Claudia Carmona Rodríguez, 2/20/1999

- Isael Miranda González, 12/8/1994

- Damián Nieves Cairo, 2/17/1990

- Alberto Díaz González, 9/19/1986

- Pablo Band Just Sotolongo, 3/1/1

- Yasley Justi Germany 11/1/1996

- Yasniel Justi Germany 11/1/1996

- Elisha Alvarez Cairo, 9/6/1976

This Tuesday it also emerged that 11 Cuban rafters They are missing since mid-April, when they left Ciego de Ávila on a homemade boat heading to the Cayman Islands, according to a family source CyberCuba.

The group of Cubans – made up of four women and seven men, all adults – left through the southern part of Ciego de Ávila, Júcaro, on April 14, in a boat without a motor that some of them made at home, and since then there has been no news.

According to the information provided to CyberCuba by the sister of one of them, four of the 11 missing rafters are named Yumilaisy Espinosa García, 29 years old; Yosdel García Ortiz, 32; Nelson Cabrera, 23, and Damian Batista, 22.

On the same April 14, the date on which the missing rafters left Cuba, a boat with around 12 Cuban immigrants ran aground in Spot Bay, Cayman Brac, but they were all men.

On April 22, the Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control Service confirmed the arrival of a non-motorized boat to Cayman Brac around four in the afternoon. There were six men and three women on board, for a total of nine Cuban rafters. Although the identity of the migrants has not been revealed and the statement does not specify whether they will be returned to Cuba, the source confirmed to this portal that it is not the same case.

In early April, another relative of a Cuban rafter contacted CyberCuba for report the disappearance of his brother and two other young people, who left Caimito, Artemisa province, on March 3.

The young people – identified as Abdiel Domínguez, Misael Yurisel Herrera Aliaga and Anyer Casero – left Cuba in a rustic rowing and sailing boat, without an engine. The families have not heard from them since, but it is believed that the case may be related to the rescue of three Cuban rafters who had been stranded on an island near Anguilla Cay, Bahamas.

This Sunday, family and friends of the young Cuban Yenrry Montufar Rodríguez They asked 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 on Saturday.

In his post, Crespo asked “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.”

At the beginning of the month, it was learned a Cuban family 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 number of Cuban rafters intercepted on the high seas or detained upon arrival on the coasts of Florida so far this fiscal year (since October 1, 2021) exceeds 1,500.