Citizens Francisco Torres Rodríguez, 80 years old, and his son Yaciel Torres Remedio (46) were found lifeless this Friday, September 5 in the afternoon, reported local newspaper of Artemisa.
According to the report, the victims were killed in the place known as the El Cusco estate, intricate site of Las Terrazas, in the mountainous area of the Candelaria municipality, Artemisa. Their bodies were found outside the house and in different locations of that geographical area.
The Ministry of Interior of the province said that the investigation is in progress, and that at the moment “the identity of the authors of the violent event is unknown, in which it is presumed, there are several involved.”
Several violent events in 2025
In recent months, several violent events have been reported on the island. Last March, five people were arrested by the murder of a worker of the provincial wholesale company in the municipality of Esmeralda, in Camagüey.
The fact was triggered when the detainees tried to steal products from the basic basket, such as rice and sugar, from a warehouse that the victim guarded. By surprising them in the spot, the worker, identified as Osmany Trujillo Guevara, 58, was deadly shot.
More recently, in mid -August, a security worker of the recreational complex is young, in Villa Clara, died and two others were injured after a quarrel started between two brothers in the center. Those responsible fled, but were trapped 48 hours after the fact.
Only a few days later, in Santiago de Cuba, a human head was found in a garbage collector in the city of Santiago de Cuba, fact that shook the inhabitants of the eastern territory for the unusual and spooky.
The author of the murder was also captured. This is a 60 -year -old citizen, resident in the community itself, who after his detention confessed that he had deprived his victim violently “while they were ingesting alcoholic beverages inside their apartment on August 21, motivated by a personal account adjustment.”
They stop the murderer who threw his victim’s head into a garbage container
In early August, another violent event shuddered Santiago society, when it was reported that a custodian of an agricultural cooperative was killed and another seriously injured in the municipality of Contramaestre.
Also in Santiago, a young journalist and university professor He received a brutal beating To steal him, which caused serious head injuries. Fortunately, although it has gone through a severe gravity picture, it has been recovering little by little.
In addition, until the beginning of September, 30 macho murders have been reported in Cuba, according to independent activists data. Feminist platforms Tense wings and I do believe you in Cuba They confirmed this week three new femicides, two of them in the province of Holguín and the other in Villa Clara.
Macho murders reach 30 in the year, according to independent activists
This accumulation of criminal events many interprets them as a rebound in violence in the population, beaten by the deep and prolonged economic and social crisis that the country is going through.
According to Data managed By agency APcrimes of all kinds occurred in Cuba during the first half of 2025 tripled with respect to the same period of the previous year.
The statistics compiled by the Cuban Observatory of Citizen Audit indicate that at that time there were 1319 crimes -from theft and assaults until drug trafficking -, which contrasts with the 432 recorded in the first six months of 2024.
However, the medium draws attention to the absence of official data in that area, and the low coverage that is carried out in the state press.
Despite this, the reflection of these events through social networks is found more frequently, which leaves the feeling that citizen insecurity has gained space in a little accustomed country during the last half century to deal with such problems.
