Miriam del Pilar Vidal Escoda, from Camagüey, is the 34th victim of sexist violence in Cuba so far in 2022. According to sources close to the 54-year-old woman, she was murdered by her ex-partner, from whom she had separated in several occasions.
The platforms that keep an unofficial record of the sexist murders on the Island have not yet confirmed the death, but those close to Vidal Escoda affirmed in social networks that it is a femicide. They even left comments on the Facebook profile of the alleged attacker, identified as José Alonso, in a publication on November 7, 2022 where he had notified that he was “in a relationship.”
A source close to the victim confirmed to the daily Cuban DNA that the crime occurred between 6 pm and 8 pm on Wednesday, December 7, when the alleged attacker wounded her in the chest with a knife. The source assured that the subject cleaned the blood and closed the door with a bar.
Then he went to work, in a bakery, where the police captured him hours later.
“She left with her hands bloody, but dry,” she added, heading to the house of a woman’s cousin, not far from her residence, where she handed her a cell phone with the request that she give it to Vidal’s daughter. Escoda. Later he went to his work, in a bakery, where the Police captured him hours later. The source assured that the same relatives of the subject alerted the uniformed officers to the fact and, when they broke down the door, they found the lifeless body of the woman.
Vidal Escoda worked as the main gastronomy specialist of the Provincial Tourism Company in the city of Santa María, and had a daughter, who graduated with a degree in tourism from the University of Camagüey.
This feminicide joins the long list that already totals 34 violent deaths in 2022, most of them brutally murdered by ex-partners. The most recent case was that of Yamila Batista, in the Mantilla neighborhood, in the Havana municipality of Arroyo Naranjo, who had recently moved house. His attacker took his life after several days of harassment.
In terms of sexist violence, October was the bloodiest month of 2022, with six cases reported by the independent press and feminist platforms, since the authorities do not publish official records on these crimes. The only data available in state sources on gender violence comes from a 2016 survey, 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 twelve months prior to the study and that only 3.7% of the assaulted requested institutional help.
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