Almost two years after the disappearance of little Lali Paola Moliner Bosa, her family is still without news. There are no leads, no progress, and no answers. All that remains is silence, which hurts more than the uncertainty itself.
Her grandmother, Beatriz Bosa Alfonso, who raised and cared for her since she was a baby, broke the institutional silence once again to remind that the girl is still missing and that the search, at least for the family, has never stopped.
"I was the one who slept with the girl, the one who took her to the circle, the one who was always with her," she said in statements to the feminist platform Alas Tensas.
Now she is remembered as a four-year-old girl, even though she was three when she disappeared on February 25, 2024, the day she was last seen with her mother, Teresa Moliner, who was found dead the next day in Cojímar with signs of violence. Since then, the family has lived amid visits to police stations, fruitless procedures, and the bitter feeling that no one is explaining anything to them.
Bosa Alfonso remembers that on that Sunday, they accompanied Teresa and the little girl to a building. They left them sitting for a moment to deliver a package. When they returned, they were gone. Two days later, they were notified of the discovery of the mother's body. There was no trace of Lali.
"From then on, they called us in every day, asking questions, probing... but then everything started to fade away. When I went to see the minister, he never met with me. They sent me to Cieneguillas de Abajo, and there they told me that they weren't the ones handling the case," he recounts wearily.
He has gone "five or six times," and always gets evasive answers, clichés, no concrete information. "Even just a little message: 'We're working on it, we haven't found anything.' But nothing. Total silence," he laments.
She assures that the case is not closed, but that doesn’t calm her. It hurts her to feel that the responsibility to keep pressing lies solely with the family. “It almost feels unbelievable when they say they are following up, yet they don’t call, don’t write, don’t say anything. One becomes desperate.”
Despite the fact that the name of Lali Paola has become known throughout Cuba and that thousands of people have shared her photograph, the grandmother feels that nothing has changed. “They say she is the most important girl in Cuba now, but in the end, we are still waiting in the same desperate situation.”
His plea is for the disappearances not to be concealed, for thorough investigations to be conducted, for connections to be made, and for institutions to not abandon the families. “There are many missing persons who are neither found alive nor dead. The unity lies in giving each other comfort,” he asserts, clinging to a hope that, although battered, does not extinguish.
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