CDMX, Mexico. – The young Elisbel Lamorú Monjes, 30, was murdered in Mayabeque by her partner between the night of April 15 and the early morning of April 16, according to confirmed the Gender Observatory of the magazine taut wings (OGAT) and the feminist platform YoSíTeCreo in Cuba.
Elisbel is survived by her three minor children: a 10-year-old boy, a two-year-old girl, and a seven-month-old baby. The perpetrator was not the father of any of them.
“They [la víctima y sus hijos] They went out to the party and when they came back he killed her,” she told CubaNet a friend of the murdered young woman who, although she asked to protect her identity, agreed to speak to the independent press so that “there is justice and the case is known.”
The children witnessed the murder of their mother, who was killed with a knife, the source also said. The murderer was detained by agents of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR), he added.
The OGAT and YoSíTeCreo in Cuba also confirmed the death of Georvenia Castellanos Ramírez, on March 14, in the city of Santiago de Cuba, “due to complications derived from the extreme beating given by her partner,” as they detailed.
With the deaths of Elisbel and Georvenia, there are 26 femicides registered this year in Cuba.
In less than four months, more than 70 percent of the gender-related murders registered the previous year, when 36 were reported, have been confirmed.
Currently, in the 15 provinces of the country, at least one femicide has been reported during 2023. As far as news is known, Elisbel is the first woman murdered in Mayabeque this year.
The regions where this type of crime has been confirmed the most are Holguín (four), Havana (three), Ciego de Ávila, Cienfuegos, Camagüey, Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba and Sancti Spíritus (with two each). Meanwhile, in the rest of the provinces only one has been registered.
Of the 26 women killed, 23 lost their lives at the hands of men they knew. In most cases the perpetrators had been or were the partner of the women they killed.
On the other hand, most of the women killed had young children. In some cases they were single mothers.
These figures hardly constitute an underreporting: we do not know how many women have died from gender-related issues. The Government does not make the statistics transparent nor does it tell the stories of the victims.
In the next display, CubaNet presents brief profiles with the known data of the victims of the femicides reported on the Island so far this year. We hope we don’t have to add new names:
