"I’m alive and kicking"
Multiple news outlets reported Thursday that Cuban President Raul Castro’s daughter—Fidel Castro’s niece—was on the Air Algérie flight that disappeared earlier in the day, citing information from the airport in Burkina Faso. Mariela Castro, a sexologist and gay rights activist, is the director of Cuba’s National Center for Sex Education.
But she wasn’t on the flight.
“I’m at a meeting, happy and healthy,” she told the television network TeleSUR. “I’m alive and kicking.”
The Facebook post which appeared to have first reported the news was later deleted.