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Family and friends of Wilder Néstor Almanza Ramos, a 34-year-old from Camagüey, have been searching for him for a week without any news following his disappearance in Mexico City, where he was living while waiting to regularize his immigration status.
The alert was disseminated on social media by the young man's family and others close to him, who provided information to help locate him.
The family is desperate. We are grateful to anyone who can help, even if it's just to share," wrote her cousin Rashmi Ariosa on Facebook, where the post has been widely shared by the Cuban community abroad.
According to a post by the user Guelmi Abdul, the Cuban "was living irregularly, waiting for documents in Mexico City," when all contact with him was lost. He added that his mother, Yamira Zamora, is in Camagüey, "desperate to hear from her son."
This and other profiles have requested that internet users share the alerts regarding the disappearance of Almanza Ramos, in order to gather information that could help locate him. For the same purpose, they provided phone numbers for contacting the family: 59028943 (his mother's) and 5534762079.
The disappearance of Almanza Ramos occurs against a backdrop of increasing danger for migrants in Mexican territory. The human rights organization Fundación para la Justicia documented 1,236 incidents of violence against migrants in Mexico, including kidnappings, extortions, and forced disappearances, during 2025.
Irregular migrants in Cuba are particularly vulnerable. In the middle of last year, three managed to escape from a safe house in Cancun where they were being held by criminal groups, in one of the many incidents that shook the community.
Similarly, eight Cuban citizens were rescued after being kidnapped in Tapachula, and in another similar incident, six also went missing in that city, highlighting an alarming pattern of violence against immigrants, including those from the island, on Mexican soil.
The situation is worsening because thousands of Cubans have been stranded in the country with no clear options for immigration regularization, putting them in conditions of extreme vulnerability to the networks of organized crime.
In March, the administration of President Donald Trump reported to a federal court in the United States that nearly 6,000 Cubans were deported to Mexico under an unwritten agreement with the government of that country. Hundreds of them have been stuck in Tapachula, in the state of Chiapas, and Villahermosa, in Tabasco, since February 2026, trapped in a legal limbo, without money, without documents, and unable to return to either Cuba or the United States.
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