Havana/A violent fight that occurred on Saturday night at the Somos Young Complex, in the city of Santa Clara, Villa Clara, left a deceased worker and two other wounded, as confirmed on Sunday the Minister of Internal Trade, Betsy Díaz Velázquez, in a publication on her social networks.
According to the officialthe fact occurred after a confrontation between two brothers, which managed to be contained by the security body and the center staff. However, the aggressions left serious consequences: one of the workers lost his life because of the wounds suffered, another remains admitted to intensive therapy with head injuries and a third is recovered after receiving a back wound.
The attackers managed to escape, although the authorities of the Ministry of Interior in Villa Clara already work in their location and capture, Díaz explained. The deadly victim has not been identified by the authorities but commentators described the deceased worker as a young man named Denys.
In his message, he described the fact as a repudiable act and assured that justice will be required: “that the whole weight of the law falls on the guilty”
The minister transmitted her condolences to the family of the deceased worker, “especially his wife and two girls,” and expressed solidarity with the injured and their relatives. In his message, he described the fact as a repudiable act and assured that justice will be required: “that the whole weight of the law falls on the guilty.”
Acts of this type are not isolated, but part of a growing trend on the island. Already in November 2023, the magazine Bohemia dedicated An extensive report To the increase in violence in Cuba and revealed alarming figures: 92.3% of the interviewees considered that crime had increased considerably, while almost half (48.9%) said he had been a direct victim in the previous six months. The distrust of the authorities was also palpable: a third did not feel safe to denounce and, among those who did, 73.4% said they did not obtain any solution to their claim.
The journalistic work also pointed out that, after several interviews and consultations to sociological, criminal and anthropological investigations, almost half of the Cubans were able to list at least ten violent crimes that occurred in the first half of that year. The perception of insecurity led to 83% of respondents to completely modify their daily routine, designing self -protection strategies that many still maintain today.
The conclusion of Bohemia It was overwhelming: in a few years, the rebound of crime in Cuba has been proportional to the deterioration of living conditions, the loss of social values, the growing vulnerabilities of the population and the collapse of the police resolution resolution mechanisms.
Since then, the situation has only aggravated itself, fed by the economic crisis and the rise of drug use, such as the popular chemicalespecially among young people.
