The victim would have been killed in front of her six -year -old daughter by her partner or ex -partner, who was in prison pass.
Miami, United States. – Several Facebook profiles reported a feminicide occurred on the morning of this Tuesday, July 22, in the city of Cienfuegos. The victim, identified as Yailin Carrasco Pérez, 29, would have been killed by his partner or ex -partner in front of one of his three minor daughters.
According to the official profile Fernanda’s things On Facebook“The incident occurred on the road road, University, at 6:30 in the morning, in the Popular Council of Pastorita.” The same source indicates that “neighbors of the community surrounded by the Polytechnic José Gregorio Martínez heard the terrifying shouts of a girl saying: ‘They killed my mother’.”
According to the independent journalist Alejandro Garlobo Leyvathe crime was committed by the victim’s couple, “who was a penitentiary pass,” in both’s own house.
The victim, known for her relatives as “La China”, leaves three girls orphans, as confirmed by both sources.
The Cuban authorities would have arrested the alleged perpetrator, he said Fernanda’s things. However, the fact that the author of the crime was temporary has caused a wave of indignation in social networks. Garlobo was sharp by stating that the case “exposes serious failures in prison control and protection of women at risk.”
The crudeness of the fact – allegedly facing a six -year -old girl, the victim’s daughter – has reopened the debate on the capacity of the Cuban State to prevent and punish sexist violence. “The girl (…) said to meet the aggressor, who presumably was a couple of the young mother finalized,” he reported Fernanda’s things.
The same official profile described the fact as “a horrendous crime” and described the act as a result of “passionate violence”, a term that has been widely criticized by feminist activists and specialists in gender violence.
Despite mentioning the advances in gender equality promoted by the Cuban revolution, the publication acknowledged that “the patriarchal structures and macho culture have persisted.”
The official profile also suggested to reactivate the death penalty in Cuba as a form of punishment against crimes of this nature. “In our Criminal Code, there is the death penalty for cases of violent murders (…) the moratorium was implemented as a sovereign act of strict faith and belief in human improvement (…). The historical moment in which this measure was taken has passed,” reads the publication.
In addition, Fernanda’s things It recognizes an increase in the visibility of femicides in recent years, mainly due to social networks: “What happened before, was not known, and what was known was left alone in the community where it happened.” Digital platforms have “expanded the resonance of these atrocious facts”, although also, as they indicate, “they can reflect a deeper crisis in social and family relations.”
About twenty sexist crimes so far from 2025
Until July 15, 2025, the Yosítecreo feminist platform in Cuba (YSTCC) and the magazine’s gender observatory Tense wings They had confirmed 19 femicides, a man murder for gender reasons and an attempt to femicide on the island, only for the year.
Meanwhile, last Tuesday, the Cuba Observatory on gender equality (OCIG, state) reported that the judicial processes completed in 2024 gave an account of a total of 76 Cuban women 15 years or more killed for gender reasons. (It is not strictly about the victims of femicides that occurred in 2024 on the island, but only those involved in judicial processes completed that year and collected by the complementary statistical information subsystem of the Popular Supreme Court).
Although the official OCIG report avoided using the term “feminicide”, statistics correspond, according to its definitions, to cases of extreme gender violence that derived from intentional homicides. Of the 76 judicial murders, 55 were perpetrated by the victim’s couple or ex -partner, and 21 by other known people.
Since 2019, the OGAT and YSTCC have managed to verify 267 femicides in Cuba, despite operating in a hostile environment characterized by the criminalization of feminist activism, restricted access to institutional sources and the absence of a legal typification of feminicide in Cuban legislation.
While the authorities use expressions such as “murder for gender reasons” or “extreme gender violence”, independent groups insist on the need to name the problem as feminicide and demand the creation of public registration protocols and an integral law against gender violence.
The Cuban State does not systematically publish annual statistics with detailed methodology or offer disaggregated data with intersective approach accessible to citizens. This institutional opacity remains an obstacle to dimensioning the true magnitude of the phenomenon.
