A man identified as Roberto Hernández has gone to several Facebook groups on the island to ask for help finding several of his half-siblings that he claims to have in the Greater Antilles, whom he has never met.
According to its publication, the subject, who resides in the Dominican Republic, is the son of Roberto Hernández Matos, originally from eastern Cuba, who died in 1986, when his son was only one year old.
Hernández pointed out that his father was born on September 15, 1935, and was the son of citizens Máximo and Asunción.
“I am looking for the family of this man, his name was Roberto Hernández Matos, he died in Miami on January 25, 1986, son of Máximo and Asunción. He was born on September 15, 1935 and was a native of Oriente, Cuba,” he wrote in the group ‘Holguín the most beautiful province’.
The man indicated that, although he does not know them, he knows that his father had several children on the Island, so he wants to meet them.
“It was my father, he died when I was one year old. I know that I have brothers in Cuba but I don’t know them,” ends the request for help, which was accompanied by a photograph of his deceased father, as well as some of his identification documents.
The publication was shared more than 100 times, and among the comments, several users wished him luck finding his relatives. They pointed out that in the east of the Island it was very common to find people with the surname of Matos, so they did not doubt that they would find someone related to his father.
“The Matos are mostly from the East. In Nicaro I met a Matos family and in Guantánamo, Baracoa, there are quite a few people with that last name. It won’t be difficult to find your family,” wrote one of the Internet users.
Others confirmed this, noting that they had neighbors or friends with that last name throughout Holguín.
“I have a neighbor named Luis Matos. His family is from Nicaro, I live in Holguín”; “Greetings, here in Holguín lives a friend whose last name is Matos, originally from Guantánamo” and “The Matos family is Barbacoa, Guantánamo, I have a friend from there with that last name, I will ask him,” were just some of the almost 100 comments left in the publication.
Hernández’s case has not been the only one to gain popularity in recent months, as hundreds of families have been separated over the years due to the mass migration of Cubans. In February it was learned of a woman who was looking for her grandmother, which he gave up for adoption to his mother on the Island before she left the country in the Mariel exodus in 1980..
The woman was identified as Lidia María Chirino Hernández, who was originally from Villa Clara and lived in Matanzas before leaving Cuba.
