The Cuban baseball player Reinier Hernández Echevarría, who was trying to reach the United States from Mexico, has been missing for more than a week.
Hernández Echevarría, 35 years old and originally from Pinar del Río, was using the CBP One application to manage an appointment at the border.
Last Friday, October 4, he stopped showing signs of life while he was in Tijuana, the northernmost border city of the Aztec country.
His wife, Yedenia Pereda, who arrived in Miami five months ago, reported to the independent portal Cubalite that the messages he sends to her phone via WhatsApp do not arrive.
"The last time he logged in was at 3:30 in the afternoon. Since then, we haven't heard from him," he noted.
According to Yedenia, the young athlete had stopped playing baseball about 15 days ago and was working as security at a company, but he requested to leave.
"His goal was to get here, to the United States, to reunite with his little girl and me. He made the CBP One appointment, he was checking in every day," she specified.
The woman has already filed a report at the nearest police station to where Hernández Echevarría resided, but they told her they don't know about him.
"He had never disappeared, and even less so would he leave now that he achieved his dream of being a father. He never told me that they were blackmailing him. We have exhausted all avenues. We no longer know what other resource to turn to. I am very anxious, I have my heart in my throat," his partner explained.
Hernández Echevarría emigrated to Mexico in 2016, where he worked in various amateur baseball leagues. In the United States, he also played for a short time with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League.
In Cuba, he played in several editions of the Provincial Series with the San Luis team, and last year he was part of the preselection for Pinar del Río with a view towards the National Series, but he was eliminated in an earlier cut.
Anyone with information about the situation of this baseball player can call his mother's number in Cuba: 54138593.
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