The young Cuban Yadira Sueiro Pérez, 22, died last Thursday in a hospital in Santiago de Cuba after her ex-partner attacked her with machetes in different parts of her body. Sueiro Pérez is the 28th victim of sexist violence in Cuba so far in 2022.
The femicide occurred in Corralón, located in the Santiago municipality of Songo La Maya, when the alleged murderer, identified as Osmel Morell Plutín, 24, attacked her with a machete. The young woman was taken from the emergency room to the Carlos J. Finlay polyclinic in the same town, however she died and was fired by her family on Friday.
An assistance center worker told the newspaper CubaNet that since the young woman entered the polyclinic “I knew that she was not going to be saved, because she was very, very hurt.” On his side, a source close to the family assured that the alleged murderer looked for his father, a soldier, to hand him over to the Police.
Sueiro Pérez is the second victim of sexist violence in the first two weeks of October. On the 11th of this month it transpired that the Cuban actor Jesús Rodríguez Vázquez murdered his ex-wife, Nodis Morales, and then hanged himself. An event that occurred in the early hours of Monday, October 3, but his bodies were found three days later.
The young woman was taken from the emergency room to the Carlos J. Finlay polyclinic in the same town, however she died and was fired by her family on Friday
Also in the municipality of Songo La Maya, last September, Yesenia Hernández Carrión, 23, was hit on the head by her husband. The young woman died days after being in intensive care.
These cases add to the list of femicides not counted by the Cuban authorities, while the independent organization Yo SíTeCreo reports seven frustrated assassination attempts and almost thirty murders that have come to light through complaints on social networks.
Although the Government recognizes gender violence in the Constitution and the Family Code, recently approved, in Cuba femicide is not classified as a crime or aggravating in the Penal Code, a situation repeatedly denounced by independent feminist associations.
The most recent official data dates back to the 2016 National Survey on Gender Equality, which revealed that 26.7% of Cuban women between the ages of 15 and 74 claimed to have suffered some type of violence in their partner relationship in the past few years. twelve months prior to the study and that only 3.7% of those attacked requested institutional help.
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