CDMX, Mexico.- On March 1, Nancy Peña wrote on her Facebook profile that if anything happened to her, she would hold the Cuban authorities responsible. She had denounced her ex-partner for her continuous attacks and threats, and they did nothing to protect her from her. That post was one of her last posts on her social media. Four days later, the same man she had reported to the authorities murdered her.
Nancy Peña, 49, was killed by her ex-partner through the use of a knife on March 5 at her home in the Alcides Pino Popular Council, Holguín province. According to a friend of the victim told CubaNether attacker waited for Peña’s son to leave the house to attack her.
“She was talking with a neighbor, Chaly Fernández was his name, when that man arrived and stabbed him first and then her. He killed Nancy simply because she did not want to continue with him, as if she were her owner, and the neighbor because she was unlucky enough to be there, ”explains the source who asked not to publish her identity.
Previously, the femicide had raped Peña on several occasions. Days before her murder, Nancy’s son intervened and saved her at that moment. “The police knew everything, just like the prosecution. They had denounced it but until they kill you, they don’t put the aggressor in jail”, adds the victim’s friend.
So far, in 13 of the 15 provinces of the country at least one femicide during 2023. Let the news be known, Nancy Peña is the second woman murdered in Holguín this year and number 17 in the entire country. As in most recorded cases, she was killed in her own home by a man she knew.
Also in Holguín on January 26 Arletis Almarales, A 40-year-old physiotherapist at a San Germán Nursing Home, she was fatally assaulted by her ex-partner on public roads. In just nine weeks, the press and independent observatories have been able to confirm more than half of the femicides reported in all of 2022.
From 2019 to date there is evidence of a total of 129 femicides in Cuba. This is hardly an underreporting and the number could be even higher. The Cuban government does not publish the figures of how many women die each year for reasons associated with their gender.
