Yvis Abadin says it was on July 12 — the day after unprecedented anti-government demonstrations exploded across Cuba — that her 19-year-old son Michael Carey Abadin was taken.
There were still scattered acts of protest popping up around their neighbourhood in Old Havana, where police and pro-government vigilantes called Rapid Response Brigades had a heavy presence.
“Michael went down to the street and sat on the sidewalk talking with a friend,” Yvis Abadin told CBC News. “Some people from another building about half a block away threw some rocks and broke the windshield of a police car.
