SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- A 47-year-old woman was murdered On September 19 in Florida, Camagüey, by her partner, according to the platform for support for people in situations of gender violence YoSíTeCreo in Cuba and the Gender Observatory of Tense Wings (OGAT).
Annelis Hernández Puerto, 47, died at home at the hands of her partner, who later committed suicide. Hernández is survived by an adult son.
YoSíTeCreo in Cuba and OGAT also sent their condolences to Hernández’s family and friends.
The groups regretted the femicide, and They warned that these cases are a “repeated example of misogyny in Cuba.”
With this, there are now 38 incidents of extreme violence and three attempted femicides confirmed by independent feminist platforms in Cuba in 2024.
Until Thursday, the underreporting carried out by YoSíTeCreo in Cuba and the OGAT had accumulated 37 femicides. That day, they had confirmed the murders of Isabel Rojas Aguilera, 30 years old, and Arianni Céspedes Garcés, 35.
Rojas Aguilera was killed by her ex-partner in the La Bloquera neighborhood in the city of Camagüey on September 13, when she went to pick up belongings of their son from the attacker’s house.
For its part, the femicide of Arianni Céspedes Garcés occurred in her own home on September 14 at the hands of her ex-partner in the town of Aguacate, in Palma Soriano, province of Santiago de Cuba.
In addition, they are investigating two cases in Matanzas, one in Las Tunas, one in Camagüey and another in Guantánamo and have confirmed two gender-motivated murders of men, both of which occurred in 2024.
Femicides in Cuba
At the beginning of August, the island’s regime confirmed that a total of 110 women had been murdered at the hands of their partners or ex-partners throughout 2023. The figure, which was released by the Cuban Observatory on Gender Equality (state-run), only includes those cases that were tried during the past year and in which the victim was over 15 years old.
According to the agency, EFEthe rate of femicides on the Island (even without being exhaustive) is the sixth highest in all of Latin America and the Caribbean compared to the records of sexist murders of the Gender Equality Observatory of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) of 2022.
Allegedly, the visibility of cases of gender-based violence in independent media and on social networks led the Government to propose an Interoperable Administrative Registry, “which allows for real-time information on the violent death of women and girls for reasons of gender”.
However, feminist organizations consider that this measure is insufficient and that the Government must take concrete actions to prevent and punish gender-based violence.
