SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The platform feminist I do believe in you Cuba and the Gender Observatory of the magazine Tense Wings (OGAT) confirmed this Monday the murder of a woman from Santiago de Cuba; He died in the street at the hands of his partner.
Tamara Carreras Martínez, 57, was attacked by her partner on October 24, on a public street in the center of the city of Santiago de Cuba. According to feminist platforms, the action of several passers-by, who defended her, failed to prevent the crime: Tamara did not survive the attack.
The news had first been published by journalist Yosmany Mayeta. According to the reporter, the aggressor was beaten by neighborhood residents who witnessed the attack. Later, he was arrested.
The victim was a worker in the Computerization area at the Universidad de Oriente, an institution that left a note of condolences on social networks for the “death” without referring to the cause of death.
The woman’s son, of legal age, was outside the country making a migratory journey to the northern border of Mexico.
With this feminicide, feminist platforms have confirmed 43 crimes until October 28.
Previously, they had reported the murders of two women, one from Santiago de Cuba and the other from Mayabeque.
Yucleidis (Cuca) Morales died at the hands of her partner on approximately October 6, 2024. She was murdered in her own home, in the town of Baltony, of the Los Reynaldo popular council, in the Songo-La Maya municipality, in Santiago de Cuba .
Yadira Moreira Pernas, 36 years old, died on October 16 at her workplace (a cafeteria at kilometer 50) in Güines, Mayabeque.
There it was attackfor his ex-partner, who had been released from the penitentiary where he was serving his sentence. Four children survive her, all minors.
At the beginning of August, the island’s regime revealed that a total of 110 women had been murdered at the hands of their partners or ex-partners throughout 2023. The figure, which was released by the Cuban Observatory on Gender Equality (state), only includes those cases that were tried during the last year and in which the victim was over 15 years old.
According to the agency EFEthe rate of femicides on the Island (although not exhaustive) is the sixth highest in all of Latin America and the Caribbean compared to the records of sexist murders from the Gender Equality Observatory of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ( ECLAC) of 2022.
The visibility of cases of sexist violence in independent media and on social networks led the Government to propose an Interoperable Administrative Registry, “that allows for real-time information on the violent deaths of women and girls for reasons of gender”.
However, feminist organizations consider that this measure is insufficient and that the Government must take concrete actions to prevent and punish sexist violence.
