With these two new macho crimes, the Sub -gap of femicide in Cuba rises to 26 so far from 2025.
Miami, United States. – The support platform for victims of Yosítecreo gender violence in Cuba (YSTCC) and the magazine’s gender observatory Tense wings (OGAT) They confirmed this Monday Two new femicides occurred in Havana on August 11 and 12, respectively. With these two new macho crimes, the Sub -gap of femicide of both NGOs rises to 26.
In their publication on social networks, organizations regretted “the premature and violent death on August 12 of Ledisvannielis Acosta Echavarría, 19, in Centro Habana, in the capital.” “The events happened in the house that he shared with his partner and aggressor, which gave himself to the police,” they detailed.
A day before, on August 11, the feminicide of Barbara Elena Tejeiro Magdaleno, 58, in the Las Cañas peri -urban neighborhood (Municipality Boyeros, Havana) occurred. The victim was in disappearance until her body was found on August 14 in a field.
“Elena died at the hands of her partner, who later took her life.
In addition, both organizations maintain the sub -registration of a man’s murder for gender reasons and two attempts to feminicide so far in 2025. They also report four alerts in research (Holguín, Santiago de Cuba, Villa Clara and Camagüey).
Last week, both NGOs other two femicides confirmed occurred on August 4 and 5. In Holguín, on the 5th, Milagros Batista Estévez (56) was killed by his ex -partner in his home of the cast Alex Urquiola, “despite several complaints prior to the police,” according to the OGAT. A day before, on August 4, Mailenis Blanco Amor (47) was killed in his home at the door (consolation of the south, Pinar del Río).
Since 2019, independent activist organizations have verified more than 270 femicides in Cuba.
Machist crimes verified in Cuba so far from 2025 are approaching 30
At the beginning of last July, 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.
