According to official sources, the attacker was immediately arrested with support from the National Revolutionary Police (PNR).
Miami, United States. – The Provincial Health Directorate of Matanzas He reported on Wednesday that a nurse of the Gynecobstric Hospital “José Ramón López Tabranes” had been attacked by his “sentimental ex -partner” within the health center on Tuesday night.
According to The official note Disseminated by the entity on Facebook, the attacker was immediately arrested with the support of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR).
According to the statement, the hospital staff “immediately activated the established security protocols.” The “rapid and coordinated intervention of the security and protection bodies of the center, together with the decisive support of the Revolutionary National Police, allowed to neutralize the threat and stop the alleged aggressor effectively.”
The worker received medical care at the hospital itself. “His state of health is stable and is currently hospitalized, under observation and receiving all the necessary medical and psychological support, together with the support of our institution,” said the center’s address.
The administration of the health center expressed its rejection of violence and its commitment to the safety of workers and patients. “The hospital ‘José Ramón López Tabranes’ emphatically rejects any act of violence. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to the safety of all our staff and patients, and we appreciate the promptness and professionalism of the forces of order.” He added: “Our thoughts and solidarity are with our colleague and his family, to whom we will provide all our support at the moment.”
Macho crimes in Cuba so far from 2025
So far this year, the magazine’s gender observatory Tense wings (OGAT) and the support platform for people in situations of yosítecreo gender violence in Cuba (YSTCC) have confirmed 30 femicides, the murder of a man for gender reasons and three attempts at femicide. (With the new case reported in Matanzas they would add four).
Both groups also currently investigate alerts of macho crimes in Santiago de Cuba, Villa Clara and Camagüey.
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 verified more than 270 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.
