Havana/Mailenis Blanco Amor, 47, was killed on August 4 at his house at the door, consolation of the South, in Pinar del Río, by three strangers who passed by police to enter to steal. The news, which transcended, as usual in these cases, through social networks, It was confirmed This Tuesday for independent observatories tense wings and I do believe you in Cuba.
The three men attacked the woman brutally, indicated the platforms, which account for this crime as femicide. “Although some murders of women during robberies are not classified as femicides, in this case gender bias is evident, because the aggressors waited for Blanco to be alone and exercised excessive violence,” they explained in their publication.
“Although some murders of women during robberies are not classified as femicides, in this case gender bias is evident”
According to the Facebook page Cuba report nowtwo of the alleged aggressors were arrested. This is Reinier Raúl Pelegrín Izaguirre, with a history of “theft with force, corruption of minors and rape of domicile”, and Ernesto José, aka ‘El Maja’, who “would have used a police uniform stolen from his brother to commit the fact.” The third suspect, Miguel Ángel Reve Tamayo, former inmate with a history of disorders in prison, is still a fugitive.
On August 5, Milagros Batista Estévez, 56, was murdered by his ex -partner In his home of the cast Alex Urquiola, in Holguín. According to feminist organizations, the victim had filed several previous complaints against the aggressor before the police, but these did not result in effective protection measures. Batista leaves two children of legal age and several grandchildren, in addition to a community impacted by the violence of the fact and inaction of the authorities.
The Government does not publish disaggregated statistics on this type of violence nor has it typified femicide in the Criminal Code
The verification of these cases was carried out from reports in independent media, citizen complaints and testimonies of activists, contrasted with community sources. This methodology, seeks to supply the lack of official data on femicides on the island, where the government does not publish disaggregated statistics on this type of violence nor has it typified feminicide in the Criminal Code as an autonomous crime.
Feminist organizations have warned on multiple occasions that formal complaints do not guarantee the safety of women, since there are no clear protocols to evaluate the risk or refuge systems that allow to escape an aggressor.
According to the registration that ’14ymedio’ has been, so far this year there have been 22 women killed
Independent observatories tense wings and I did believe you accounted for 54 cases during 2024. For their part, the Government acknowledged that, in court, judicial processes related to 76 women were carried out by 76 women killed by their partners, former partners or other people in judicial proceedings held last year, although they did not use the term femicide or detailed the specific dates of the crimes.
According to the registration that carries 14ymedioso far this year there have been 22 women killed. In 2024, this newspaper accounted for 52 murders for sexist violence from independent records. According to figures from the Cuba Observatory on gender equality, in 2024 a total of 76 murders were judged in the country for gender reasons, in which the victims were over 15 years. The agency does not need what dates the crimes were committed, but most likely between 2023 and 2024.
