With this case, the number of femicides that have occurred and verified on the Island so far this year rises to 40.
MIAMI, United States. – The magazine’s Gender Observatory Tense Wings (OGAT) and the YoSíTeCreo platform in Cuba (YSTCC) confirmed a new feminicide in the country: the victim was identified as Liena de la Caridad Reinoso Ramos, a 23-year-old nurse. With this case, the number of femicides that have occurred and verified on the Island so far this year rises to 40.
According to the publication of both platforms, the young woman “was attacked by her ex-partner on a public street on November 6, with extreme violence” and “the sad events happened in the La Conchita neighborhood, in the city of Pinar del Río.”
Independent media They had previously reported the crime.
The OGAT and YSTCC added that the facts were “verified with community sources.” Both platforms maintain your record with a network of observers and community verification to document each case of lethal violence against women in Cuba.
From January 1 to November 11 of this year, the organizations have recorded 40 femicides, the murder of a man for reasons of gender, 15 attempted feminicides, three cases that require access to police investigation, and two alerts of sexist crimes in Santiago de Cuba and one in Villa Clara.
At the beginning of last July, the Cuban Observatory on Gender Equality (OCIG, state) reported that the judicial processes concluded in 2024 accounted for a total of 76 Cuban women aged 15 or older murdered for reasons of gender. (These are not strictly the victims of femicides that occurred in 2024 on the Island, but only those involved in judicial processes concluded that year and collected by the Complementary Statistical Information Subsystem of the Supreme People’s Court).
Although the official OCIG report avoided using the term “feminicide”, the statistic corresponds, according to its definitions, to cases of extreme gender violence that resulted in intentional homicides. Of the 76 judicialized murders, 55 were perpetrated by the victim’s partner or ex-partner, and 21 by other known people.
Since 2019, the OGAT and YSTCC They have verified at least 300 femicides in Cubadespite operating in a hostile environment characterized by the criminalization of feminist activism, restricted access to institutional sources and the lack of a legal classification 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 a comprehensive law against gender violence.
The Cuban State does not systematically publish annual statistics with detailed methodology nor does it offer disaggregated data with an intersectional approach accessible to citizens. This institutional opacity continues to be an obstacle to measuring the true magnitude of the phenomenon.
The OGAT and YSTCC maintain support lines and a mechanism for reporting and verifying femicides and attempts, supported by citizen complaints, media coverage and work in the territory. Its methodology—based on community verification and public documentation—is available in its institutional channels.
