Beatriz Nápoles Morales, a 28-year-old woman living in the municipality of San José de Las Lajas, Mayabeque, was reported missing on July 14. The search for relatives is desperate. “There are more than 30 people stuck in the mountains trying to find a trail,” said Lien de Jesús García through a video uploaded to your Facebook account.
His relatives reported the case to the Police the same day contact with the girl was lost, but, as Lindbergh Ferrales Bacallao lamented, the authorities did not activate the disappearance at that time, since the protocol indicates that more than 72 years must have passed. hours.
Napoles Morales, indicated his acquaintances through social networks, works in the Children’s Circle of San Antonio de las Vegas. the feminist magazine Tense Wings issued an alert about the disappearance and detailed that the relatives reported that the young woman left her house around eight in the morning “to take her son to the circle.”
After leaving the little boy, he returned home to collect his things and go to work in San Antonio de las Vegas, but “he never arrived.”
According to the search efforts initiated by relatives and contacts, Beatriz’s cell phone “was reachable until approximately 10 pm, in Güines.” Tense Wings He also stated that the day after the disappearance: “The phone was located in Nueva Paz. Then it was turned off and on July 16 there was news that the phone was ringing and the location it gave was in La Sirenita, Matanzas.”
The feminist magazine Alas Tensas issued an alert about the disappearance and detailed that the relatives reported that the young woman left her house around eight in the morning “to take her son to the circle”
Lien de Jesús García, a relative of the young woman and who started a search campaign on social networks, considered that the authorities have done little to find Beatriz. “What I don’t understand is how the authorities, knowing that there is a phone that is ringing, can’t get to where that phone is on. All I ask is that they find where the phone is and there they will find the answer.”
At least 86 femicides were perpetrated in Cuba from January 2020 to date, according to the independent platforms that collect this data in the absence of official statistics.
Activist groups like Tense WingsYo Sí Te Creo en Cuba and the Cuban Women’s Network have pointed out that “the Cuban State, in addition to not classifying gender-based violence as a crime, has marked inequality gaps between women in independent civil society and the rest of the population “.
Although the Penal Code approved by the Cuban Parliament last May contemplates gender-based violence, the crime of femicide is not defined.
The most recent victim of sexist violence “ Arletty Reyes Batista, 24 years old, who lived in a rural area of the Urbano Noris municipality (Holguín). The event occurred on June 25 when the young woman left her house to go to the university, “reported the note from Tense Wings disclosed on Facebook
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