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María Fernanda Fuentes, a 17-year-old girl from Ranchuelo, Villa Clara, has been missing for approximately 19 days, with no information provided by Cuban authorities regarding her whereabouts, according to the alert posted on Facebook by the Gender Observatory of Alas Tensas (OGAT).
The young woman resides with her grandmother in San José de los Ramos, Martí municipality, Matanzas, although she is originally from Ranchuelo.
One of the latest reports places it in the area of Motembo, a locality located in the border strip between Matanzas and Villa Clara, near the municipalities of Colón and Corralillo.
The disappearance was reported to the authorities in both localities, but no information about their whereabouts has been obtained so far.
The geographical dispersion of the case -with points in two different provinces and authorities from two municipalities notified- complicates the coordination of the search.
One element that heightens the family's concern is the situation surrounding the cell phone that María Fernanda used, which belonged to her deceased father.
According to the alert, the device "may have been removed by third parties": when her mother attempted to contact that number, she was informed that it no longer belonged to the young woman, suggesting that the phone may have changed hands inappropriately.
Those with information can contact the observatory at the address observatorio@alastensas.com.
La Alerta Mayde is a civil initiative that emerged in response to the institutional gap created by the absence of a state rapid alert system in Cuba, comparable to the Amber Alert in the United States.
It takes its name from the case of Maydeleisis Rosales Rodríguez, a 16-year-old adolescent who went missing on May 30, 2021 in the park of Campanario and Malecón, in Centro Habana, whose whereabouts remain unknown more than four years later.
In Cuba, the search for missing persons relies almost exclusively on family members, activists, and social networks, due to the lack of official protocols.
The OGAT documented 40 disappearances of women, girls, and boys in Cuba during 2025, and María Fernanda's case is not the first this year: in March, another young woman from Villa Clara, Amanda Pérez, was reported missing after being out of contact for more than 20 days.
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