The 75-year-old Cuban man Juan Gallo Bellwho had been missing since May 23 in Santiago de Cuba, appeared safe and healthy this Saturday, his relatives confirmed.
“He’s stable, when they found him he was kind of scared, but he’s already talking loudly and everything,” Gallo Bell’s niece, who had reported the disappearance, informed journalist Yosmany Mayeta.
The elderly man, who suffers from diabetes and senile dementia, had been last seen last Thursday at 9:30 am on the corner of his house, located on Carretera de Siboney kilometer 1, Loma de San Juan, and appeared nearby. of the J Buildings in the José Martí District, the independent reporter said on Facebook.
The family had clarified that although the elderly man suffers from senile dementia, “he is not an aggressive person.”
The reports of disappearances of Cubans are increasingly frequent in recent months, as well as the publication of requests for help on social networks to obtain information, this in the midst of a context of growing violence in the country.
A portion of these systematic reports of disappearances are related to people who suffer from some condition or disability that causes them to disappear.
In recent days, the report of an 18-year-old autistic young man residing in the city of Matanzas who remained outside his home for almost a week, and who was finally located safe and sound, had a happy ending.
