The family of the young Cuban Yeniset Rojas Pérez, who disappeared in March 2022 in Ranchuelo, Villa Clara, confirmed this Monday her murder through social networks. Her sister-in-law, Giselle Sobrino, made a post on her Facebook profile in which she said goodbye to the 33-year-old woman.
“Now you can fly high, dear Yeny. Beautiful girl full of sunflowers. We take care of the monster’s death penalty. We love you with all our hearts,” he wrote. Subsequently, another relative confirmed to cybercuba the news, according to the independent media.
Following Sobrino’s words, the platform Yo Sí Te Creo in Cuba ended the search. “We closed the disappearance alert for Yeniset Rojas Pérez, after her family made a farewell on social networks. Our condolences reach her little daughter who survives her, mother and brother, and other members of the family,” wrote the feminist organization Freelance on Facebook.
Last Thursday I Do Believe You in Cuba and Alas Tensas issued a statement in which they considered Rojas Pérez dead, but hours later they backed down and apologized, although they confirmed that “an alleged attacker” with “a history of violence and assaults against women” was being investigated and they hoped that the investigations would lead to “the truth about this case and take preventive measures.
In its note this Monday, the platform once again claimed that the alleged murder of Rojas be taken as an example to act against violence against women.
“Thank you very much to all the people who for 10 months carried out actions for their discovery. Peace and light, Yeni! May this case serve to continue advocating for a specific protocol for the disappearances of women and girls!”, reads the text.
Rojas Pérez disappeared on March 18 in broad daylight when she was returning from her job as an administrator at the Ranchuelo high school. Her family, who kept the search active at all times, regretted the lack of involvement of the authorities.
“We feel that apathy, we have felt it, it is felt,” said Yerandi Fleites, the victim’s brother, in an interview with 14ymedio. “There hasn’t been a much-vaunted ‘social worker’ assisting this family, there hasn’t been anything at all.”
Fleites then insisted that he refused to speak in the past of his sister, whom he considered “a true warrior of life.” “She is a person with a simple life, divorced, dedicated to raising her 10-year-old daughter and caring for our mother who has major health problems,” she explained.
His mother, Iraina Pérez Valdés, was precisely one of the last people in the family to publicly remember his disappearance, when this Christmas Eve marked the 276th day of the disappearance.
“Disappeared yes, absent never,” he wrote, asking for “a miracle” that finally could not be.
The authorities and the official press have not mentioned the case to date.
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