Cuban feminist activists demanded on Monday that the Police and the Prosecutor's Office reactivate the search for the young Beysi Moraima Pedroso Ramírez, who disappeared in Havana in May 2017.
Pedroso, who was 21 years old at the time, was last seen on May 30 of that year, at 10 pm, on Pedro Nuevo Street between 5th and 6th, in Mantilla, Arroyo Naranjo, two blocks from her home, specified the platform YoSíTeCreo en Cuba (YSTCC), which activated the Yeniset Alert to locate the woman based on a recent report from the independent media outlet Diario de Cuba.
The young woman is of medium height, with black skin and hair, and dark brown eyes. She can be identified by a scar on her chin," the note described. "She was dressed in white, a white sweater and white leggings, wearing black sandals and a caramel handbag, on her way to connect to the WIFI park. She suffers from asthma.
On May 31 - one day after leaving his house - Pedroso "made a brief phone call to his family, which was cut off before he could say where he was," the publication added.
The young woman's family "filed the corresponding complaint with the police at the time, as well as taking the case to several instances," including the PNR unit of Capri, the Territorial Unit of Criminal Investigation and Instruction of Acosta, Plaza de la Revolución, Citizen Services of the Ministry of the Interior, and the 100 and Aldabó unit, YSTCC listed.
In addition, they searched for the girl in hospitals, churches, rehabilitation centers, psychological centers, psychiatric facilities, bus terminals, and airports, among other places.
The publication of YoSíTeCreo in Cuba demands that "the Police and Prosecutor's Office resume the case with pertinent investigations, and keep the family informed and updated on the process. In addition to complying with existing international protocols for disappearances."
Similarly, they requested that anyone with information about the whereabouts of Pedroso contact his mother, Moraima Ramírez, at the telephone numbers 53850171 and 76942851.
The case of Pedroso was made public by Diario de Cuba weeks after his disappearance was reported.
The young woman's mother and grandmother expressed their desperation to the newspaper as they did not know where she was or how she was doing, while also expressing their discomfort with how little seriousness the police took the case. The officers stated that there were no missing persons in Cuba and treated the case as that of a person "absent from their home."
When Ramírez filed the first complaint, a police instructor told him: "You guys are watching too many soap operas," while listening to music.
The family turned to other official authorities to continue reporting and hung posters with photos of the young woman around the city, hopeful of being able to find her.
During these seven years, Ramírez has kept up the search for his daughter, even going to the Plaza de la Revolución once with a photo of her. "At the time, three patrol officers surrounded me. I told them I wasn't going to move from there until they told me what happened to my daughter," he told Diario de Cuba.
From there, they took her to a MININT Citizen Service office, where they informed her that they were working on her daughter's case and tried to convince her not to take any further public actions.
However, the authorities "have not found a single clue related to Beysi's disappearance," Ramirez emphasized.
On one occasion they told me they were sorry, that they had done everything possible, that they had searched 'everywhere', but they have not been able to find my daughter. That devastated me. Her father, her grandmother, her siblings, and I are psychologically affected," lamented the woman.
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