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Cuban Felicia Gómez Díaz, 67, left her home on December 5 at 8:00 AM. She lived in a small family farm in the village of La Ermita, along the road from Trinidad to Sancti Spíritus, for the past 40 years. She was wearing a green coat, leggings, rubber boots, and a blue cap from the local baseball team. She told her husband she was going to look for their cows. By around nine in the morning, an hour later, her husband noticed her absence and began searching for her. Since then, there has been no news of her.
From the very beginning, neighbors and family members in the area came together to search. The woman, a mother of two daughters (Yaneisy and Yudisleisy Gómez Gómez), is diabetic, but she left her house after having breakfast. The locals believe it is not a case of robbery because the cows she went to fetch returned on their own. "The cows always go to the same place and come back by themselves."
Felicia Gómez has neither been seen with anyone nor found dead next to a cow, nor has she been decapitated, or anything of the sort, her associates clarify, debunking all the rumors circulating about the case. "She hasn't shown up, and there's been no information at all. There isn't a single clue regarding this case," they insist in statements to CiberCuba.
At first, the family was upset because the police did not begin searching immediately. "A man came at night to have them sign the report and said they couldn’t do anything until 24 hours had passed," sources close to Felicia Gómez's family explain.
This is a standard protocol in cases of disappearances and is applied internationally. Authorities typically exercise caution before mobilizing public resources and allow a reasonable period to rule out the possibility of a voluntary disappearance, during which the individual may return home on their own. This is why there is a wait of 24 to 72 hours.
The problem is that after those 24 hours, a police officer showed up at the farm with a dog, and the justification he gave to the family for not finding any trace of Felicia Gómez was that since 24 hours had passed, there were no more leads, and that’s why the dog hadn’t found anything.
The search proved daunting for the police, who a day later were seen sitting under a mango tree, "waiting for who knows what," while the rest of the neighborhood searched for the missing person, clearing and combing through areas with tall grass.
However, social media advertising has changed the police's attitude, and higher-ranking officials have come to the community, engaging actively with the case in recent days. The citizens have also shown their support, reaching out to express their interest and provide information.
"Finally, others of a higher rank have come, and they are starting to pay a bit more attention to our desperation regarding this mysterious case... but they have done so four days after the disappearance," notes a source close to the family.
"And nothing, there are no signs of anything, no clues, no indications. She told her husband that she was going to check on some cows right there in their field, and about an hour later, the cows returned, all of them, not one missing, yet her husband did not see her and searched everywhere for her. She left at 8:00 AM, and her husband began looking for her at 9:00 AM, and she was no longer anywhere to be found... No one can explain anything," they insist.
"From the very first day, the entire community of La Ermita and the surrounding fields where the family has friends have come together for the intense search that continues to this day. Some people have had to return to their jobs, but much of the family remains in La Ermita, and many of their daughter's friends frequently visit them. No one has left since the first day, and there have always been friends and family searching tirelessly," they emphasize.
So far, there are not only no clues but also no indications of what might have happened to Felicia in a small town where everyone knows each other.
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