The aggressor was arrested shortly after the crime. The victim’s daughter is still hospitalized.
Madrid, Spain.- A new feminicide shocked in recent days the residents of the Cruce del Coco neighborhood, in the city of Holguín, where a man murdered his wife in full public road and seriously injured his daughter, a minor who remains hospitalized.
The fact, occurred in broad daylight, was initially disseminated by the page of Facebook realities from Holguínwhich explained that the author of the crime – identified as Miguel – assaulted his partner for “personal problems” and fled after committing the murder. In his escape, he also attacked the victim’s daughter, and caused severe injuries.
The aggressor was captured shortly after by a joint operation of the Ministry of Interior (Minint), the National Revolutionary Police, the Technical Investigation Department (DTI), the Special Brigade of Holguin and troops from the neighboring province of Camagüey, with the support of the population, indicates the official information.
“The author of a murder is already behind bars. (…) Would this being think that changing the town was going to leave the crime behind?” Wrong the aforementioned page, in a tone that reinforces the institutional narrative of the Cuban regime and avoids direct references to gender violence.
Official media as Cubadebate They also echoed the event, unusually using the term “feminicide.”
Independent feminist organizations such as Yosítecreo in Cuba and the Observatorio de Alas tense documented 55 femicides in 2024, and at least 19 cases confirmed so far from 2025.
Feminist activists have repeatedly alerted about the absence of effective institutional protocols, shelters for women at risk and specific legal tools that allow preventing This type of crimes, especially in rural contexts such as Holguin. Despite the official speeches about “zero tolerance”, macho violence continues to charge lives on the island without still an integral law against gender violence.
