Authorities obstruct search for missing elderly woman

On 17th May, 2018, Mrs. Marbelia Cañete Rondón disappeared from her home, suffering from senile dementia. Her relatives reported the disappearance to the authorities, but they have put obstacles in the way of the family's search for her grandmother. They were not authorized to publicize the disappearance in the government media and officer Yoandris Rodriguez refused to use the canine technique to search for her. In addition, the Department of State Security threatened one of his grandchildren with reprisals if he continued to publish the disappearance of his grandmother in the counter-revolutionary press.