Waldo Orlando García Ferrera

Waldo Orlando García Ferrera, a native of Sagua la Grande, is a Cuban gastroenterologist physician. He was the head of the Department of that specialty at the "General Calixto García" Hospital and was fulfilling a medical mission in Mazatlán, Mexico, from which he deserted in 2007. He is currently accused of murdering his ex-wife, ballet teacher Margarita Naranjo de Saá in Mazatlán, Mexico.

Accused of having murdered ballet teacher Margarita Naranjo de Saá, 41 years old, daughter of Ramona de Saá, director of the National School of Ballet in Cuba; and Santiago Naranjo, chief of first escort of former president Fidel Castro in the 1960s.

The teacher was found dead by asphyxiation on August 26, 2008 in her home located in the Historic Center of Mazatlán after having taught classes for almost 10 years at the Municipal School of Classical Ballet of Mazatlán.

Margarita Naranjo was 41 years old at the time of her death. She was a ballet professor at the Municipal Center of the Arts in this port. She had been living in this city for seven years. On August 26, 2008 she was found in her bed in sleepwear.

It is worth noting that Waldo Orlando García Ferrera raised the victim's son in Cuba from age six until age 13. He had been divorced from Margarita Naranjo de Saá for one year. Both maintained friendly relations and systematically spent weekends together.

It had been nine days (until the day of the homicide) that the boy had arrived from Cuba to reside permanently in Mexico under the care of his mother. Dr. García Ferrera visited her more frequently to keep abreast of the child's material, educational, and spiritual needs.

On Thursday, August 28, 2008, a tribute to the teacher was held at the Ángela Peralta theater, which García Ferrera attended; hours later the funeral was held, which he did not attend, and as he was heading to the Resomaz clinic, where he worked, he was arrested by ministerial agents.