Cuban father reunites with his daughter after 17 years apart

El Narra traveled to Cuba and met his daughter in person for the first time in 17 years. The reunion was recorded in a video he posted to his TikTok account on October 7, 2026. The images show the father and young woman facing each other after nearly two decades while other people witness the moment. The user identifies himself on the platform as El Narra, the name under which he shared the recording.

The sequence, about two and a half minutes long, first shows the man outside a home and then his embrace with his daughter. In text over the images, he wrote that he was shaking “with nerves and joy” and called her “the love of my life.” The words convey the emotion he said he felt as the scene centers on their meeting and embrace.

By October 14, the video had about 58,400 views, more than 3,000 likes and 439 comments. In his replies, the father confirmed that he had traveled to Cuba. When one user asked who had cared for the young woman during those years, he answered that her mother had and added, “God bless her.” That response offered a brief family detail amid reactions to the post.

Most comments were congratulatory, and several Cuban users shared their own experiences of family separation. El Narra also replied to someone who described a personal experience and expressed how much reaching that moment had meant to him after enduring difficulties. The replies show how the recording opened an exchange about years spent far from relatives and the joy of meeting again.

The story takes place in a context of migration also reflected in Cuba’s demographic figures. The National Office of Statistics and Information put Cuba’s net migration loss at 245,264 people in 2025 and the population at 9,434,593 at the end of that year. The Cuban government estimates that more than three million Cubans live abroad, according to figures cited in information about the reunion.