Her father, Ismael Cabrera, made a desperate plea on social media when the girl had already been missing for 15 days.
"My girl has been missing for 15 days. If anyone sees her, please call my number 54639066. I'm desperate; her name is Melodys, she is 13 years old and is from Vereda Nueva, Caimito, Artemisa. Please share," he said.
According to the search notice issued by Alas Tensas on Facebook, the family has already filed a report with the Cuban police, although as of the date of the alert, there have been no visible results.
Melodys is described as having a fair complexion and a distinctive physical trait: "she has a red mole above one eyelid," as stated by family members in the comments of the post, who asked that anyone who sees her contact her father or notify the authorities.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of the minor can contact the family at the number 54639066 or write to the observatory's email: observatorio@alastensas.com.
The case highlights, once again, the lack of a state rapid alert system for missing minors in Cuba, equivalent to the Amber Alert that exists in the United States and other countries.
In response to that institutional vacuum, the feminist platform YoSíTeCreo in Cuba and the OGAT created #AlertaMayde as an alternative civic mechanism, disseminating search profiles mainly through social media.
The name of the alert pays tribute to Maydeleisis Rosales Rodríguez, a 16-year-oldwho disappeared on May 30, 2021 in Centro Habana, whose whereabouts remain unknown more than five years later.
The annual OGAT report published in April documented 40 disappearances of women, girls, and boys in Cuba during 2025, of which 12 -30%- were minors: ten girls or adolescents and two boys.
Out of those 40 cases, 26 people were found alive, six were discovered dead—four of them under circumstances of femicide—and eight remained with active alerts at the close of the report.
The same document states that the current Cuban legislation only protects the assets of missing persons, without establishing effective search mechanisms or comprehensive support for families, and that the regime's lack of transparency exacerbates the situation.
So far this year, there have been reported several cases of missing minors in different provinces, all sharing the same common denominator: the lack of effective response from the authorities and families' reliance on independent civil organizations to disseminate the alerts.
The municipality of Caimito, where Melodys resides, has also been affected by severe power outages, food shortages, and a lack of doctors—conditions that, as noted by Alas Tensas in April 2026, directly contribute to the vulnerability of women and girls in Cuba.
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