Havana/The body of Ledisvannielis Acosta Echavarría, 19, was found in the bathroom of his home, located on Friendship Street, between San José and Barcelona, in the Havana municipality of Centro Habana. The Gender Observatory Alas Tenses (OGAT) confirmed on Monday the event through its social networks.
The crime occurred last Tuesday, August 12 and, according to residents of the area, the aggressor was seen trying to sell his pet before surrendering to the police about eight at night. The victimizer, also very young, declared to be under the effects of drugs when committing the murder.
The murder of Acosta Echavarría adds to a particularly bloody cycle. The young Havanera became the youngest victim of the femicides registered this month.
Violence against women is going through the entire national territory
With this case, 14ymedio Account 24 femicides in Cuba so far from 2025. Only in August, four women have lost their lives in similar circumstances.
The records of this newspaper and feminist platforms show that violence against women is going through the entire national territory. Holguín heads the list with four confirmed feminicides. They are followed by Havana and Camagüey, with three victims each. With two cases they appear blind from Ávila, Sancti Spíritus, Granma and Santiago de Cuba, while in Pinar del Río, Cienfuegos, Matanzas, Las Tunas and Artemis have been documented at least one murder of this type.
The dispersion of the facts shows that almost no province is exempt from a phenomenon that feminist organizations qualify as national emergency. The absence of official data and effective prevention protocols aggravates the panorama.
Not all women murders in the context of a robbery are classified as femicides
On August 4, in the town of Puerta de Pora, Municipality of Consolation of the South, She was killed Mailenis Blanco Amor, 47. Three unknown men, who passed by police to enter their home and steal, ended their lives. Both Ogat and I do believe you in Cuba underline that, although not all women’s murders in the context of a robbery are classified as femicides, in this case “gender bias is evident,” since the aggressors waited for the victim to be alone and exerted disproportionate violence over it.
A day later, on August 5, another crime occurred in the city of Holguín. Milagros Batista Estévez, 56, He died at the hands of his ex -partnerin his home of the cast Alex Urquiola. According to the reports of the feminist platforms, the victim had filed multiple previous complaints against their aggressor, without the police authorities adopting effective protection measures. Batista, mother of two older children and grandmother of several grandchildren, was well known in her community, which was shocked by the fact and institutional passivity.
The 72 -hour period required to officially report a person’s disappearance puts women victims of sexist violence at greater risk
The third victim of August was Barbara Elena Magdaleno, also 56 years old, resident in Calabazar, municipality of Boyeros, in Havana. August 11 It was attacked to machetes for his partner, who denied for days to have seen her. Bárbara’s body Elena was found three days later in a field in the Las Cañas neighborhood. The aggressor took his life shortly after. His case revived the debate on a period of 72 hours required to officially report the disappearance of a person, a protocol that, according to activists, puts women victims of sexist violence at greater risk.
Neither the Federation of Cuban women nor other state institutions have offered a public reaction to these crimes, despite the growing social alarm they cause. Independent observatories warn that the absence of effective recognition of feminicide in the Cuban Criminal Code is reflected in the lack of prevention policies, in the unprotection of the victims and in the opacity of official statistics.
The state response is limited to judicially processing the aggressors and establishing “exemplary convictions”
Nor exists, they denounce these organizations, a network of host houses for women at risk, or specialized lines of care that systematically work throughout the country. The state response is limited, in most cases, to judicially process the aggressors and to establish “exemplary convictions.”
The four victims of August share common elements: loneliness in front of their attackers, the lack of institutional protection and extreme violence against them. From the murders committed by former resentful partners to those perpetrated in robbery contexts, the common denominator is the use of excessive force against women in situations of vulnerability.
