Madrid/The murder of a father and his son In a rural area of Artemisa And the panic unleashed, last weekend, by the adventures of the author of the double crime in the area are another sign of the increase in insecurity in Cuba. To this is added the lack of official information, as has happened in the case of the young Yosvani Hernández Meriño, who was stabbed in his own home a month ago.
The testimony of his relatives denies the first version of the events, which assured that the 33 -year -old boy, known as El Moro and was briefly detained in the protests of July 11, 2021, had earned money with the ball, the popular raffle that works illegally on the island, which made him an ideal victim. Your relatives They have told this weekend to Strong coffee That, in reality, there was never a great unexpected money in between, but Yosvani was killed by an acquaintance who had given shelter at home and who took advantage of his solidarity to kill him and take his belongings.
Yosvani, a resident in Lawton, in the Habanero municipality ten of October, worked as a janitor in a MSME in Centro Habana, where he met Yurixandre Batista, a holguinero who argued to have nowhere to live. The young man offered him to stay at his home as he got an independent rental and Batista not only accepted, but after the days, he asked Yosvani to welcome his friend from Granma.
Yosvani was killed by an acquaint
As the relative has told Strong coffeeasking to maintain anonymity, the two individuals planned the crime and took advantage of a blackout to commit it. With knives that hid under a mattress that Yosvani had in the sleeping patio on the nights of more heat and without light, they both waited for it to come out of the bathroom and stable it to death.
Then, all the value belongings that Yosvani had at home, including televisions, fans, an electric generator and even clothes were taken.
“They loaded the objects in a suitcase and one of them went to the October ten road to take a taxi, but a driver who agreed to take them to Havana Vieja for 5,000 pesos wondered if there would be no problems, because young people were carrying many things,” said the relative.
According to the story, the young people said they came from their grandmother’s house, but when they reached the destination and after admitting that they did not have the money agreed, they offered to pay the taxi driver with three stolen fans. It is not clarified if this was how the case was uncovered, but the family member argues that a person who bought the subtracted belongings – which were recovered in their entirety – was arrested within the framework of the investigation, as well as Yurixandre Batista, alleged murderer of Yosvani. His alleged accomplice is fled in Granma, where he is originally, and is expected to be located for later arrest.
“Yosvani was my life, what happened was very hard, even more because of the way they killed him,” he said with weighing the source to Strong coffee. The young man was the father of a seven -year -old girl.
Precisely in Granma were arrested Recently the murderers of a Bayamo bicitaxist who was assaulted in mid -August. Juan Carlos Hernández Báez was violently attacked by several individuals who tried to strip him of the vehicle with which he earned life and other belongings.
According to a neighbor of the deceased, Hernández was assaulted in the city of the Latin American cast of the city and, together with the Bicitaxi, took his mobile phone and the money he had. The violence of the blows ended up producing the death of the worker three days later at the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes hospital.
The violence of the blows ended up producing the death of the worker three days later at the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes hospital
This same source said that the authorities They delivered this weekend The vehicle and the rest of the widow stolen objects, which showed, “Relata–” the thanks and satisfaction of the professionalism and interest with which the forces of the Ministry of Interior worked in the soon clarification of this murder. ” The neighbor, creator of official content, added that the thieves had removed the gums and other accessories to the bicitaxi with the intention of marketing them.
The statistics Criminality in Cuba doubled last 2024, according to a report prepared by the Cuban Observatory of Citizen Audit (OCAC) and Cuba Century 21. The data of that document indicated that most of the reports were by robberies (880), followed by murders (167), assaults (93), aggressions (65) and “others” (112).
According to the most recent report of that agency, between January and June 2025, 1,319 crimes were verified in the country, including 63 homicides. Under the number of murders, but an increase in cases of domestic violence, femicides and armed attacks in rural communities is indicated.
Although the figures are not very high in the Latin American context, the growth is remarkable, as well as the perception of risk between a population accustomed to the fact that these facts did not exist simply because the authorities kept those information locked up, which now cannot be hidden by the role of the independent press and social networks.
