Madrid/Heidi García Orozco, a 17-year-old teenager, was wearing the uniform of the school she attended when she was attacked in her own home by her boyfriend last Friday around two in the afternoon. He stabbed her to death. Yours is the most recent. feminicide reported by the Alas Tensas Gender Observatory (Ogat), number 40 so far this year, according to the record kept 14ymedio.
The event occurred in the rural settlement Finca Alcancía, in the Matanzas municipality of Jovellanos, after the girl left the Pedro Pablo Rivera Cué Urban Pre-University Institute, where she was studying.
According to the same sources, the aggressor tried to flee, but was found hours later by his father, who handed him over to the Police.
“The community and family, especially her mother, are deeply affected by the loss of a teenager who was very loved in her environment, in a context in which observatories have also recorded 16 attempts at feminicide in the same period,” he reported. Ogat detailed to Martí News.
The Observatory also publicized several cases of missing women, as part of the #NoMeOlvides campaign, launched on November 25.
The Observatory also publicized several cases of missing women, as part of the #ForgetMeNot campaign, launched on November 25. One of them, Mabel García Corrales56 years old, who vanished without a trace on July 1, 2024 in Ciego de Ávila.
Another, in a more dramatic and mysterious case, a four-year-old girl, Lali Paola Moliner, who disappeared from the municipality of Regla, in Havana, in February of last year. On Sunday the 25th of that month, her grandmother, Beatriz Bossa, left her daughter Teresa and her granddaughter Lali “on the ground floor of a building to run an errand,” explains Ogat. “When he returned, they were gone. Two days later, on Tuesday the 27th, the family received the news that Teresa, Lali’s mother, had been found dead on the coast of Cojímar.” Although the family has tried on several occasions to contact “high-ranking authorities,” including a minister, the publication continues, “they have never been assisted.”
This same Monday, independent feminist platforms have called for a vigil in Madridin the Plaza de Isabel II, where the Opera Metro is, as part of the same campaign. In their announcement, they explain: “On the eve of Human Rights Day (December 10), it seeks to make visible the situation of missing people and their families, in a context of total lack of state protection.”
