Yeniset Rojas Pérez, the young woman from Ranchuelo, Villa Clara, who had been missing since March 18 of last year, has been presumed dead by the magazine taut wings, that independently registers the femicides that have occurred in Cuba.
In a brief statement made public on his social networks this Thursday, he affirms that “the alleged aggressor had a history of violence and assaults against women” and in this regard they call attention “to the responsibility of local authorities in preventing something irreparable such as death”. The magazine does not clarify how they have confirmed the death, if it is with the discovery of the body or by the confession of the suspect.
Ever since the 33-year-old woman, the mother of a 10-year-old girl, disappeared in broad daylight at the time she was returning from work, as an administrator at the Ranchuelo high school, her family and friends have not stopped waiting for her and denounce the inaction of the authorities on the case.
In this regard, they draw attention “to the responsibility of local authorities in preventing something irreparable such as death”
“We feel that apathy, we have felt it, it is felt,” said Yerandy Fleites, playwright and brother of Rojas, when this newspaper spoke with him, more than eight months ago. “There hasn’t been a much-vaunted ‘social worker’ assisting this family, there hasn’t been anything at all.”
Rojas, her brother explained then, was the pillar of their home, “a true warrior of life.” On her disappearance, in all this time, no official media has echoed.
The last desperate call from her mother, Iraina Pérez Valdés, in networks is Christmas Eve, 276 days after the disappearance. “Disappeared yes, never absent,” she wrote in her publication, where she had no choice but to appeal to “a miracle.”
That of Rojas Pérez is the second femicide recorded by Alas Tensas and the platform Yo Sí Te Creo in 2023, after the murder, on January 5, of the doctor Damaris Rodriguez Dominguez. Last year, the number of women murdered by their partners or ex-partners rose to 34, an alarming figure considering the country’s population.
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