Madrid/There is no truce with sexist violence, which begins the year as it ended. 2026 had barely been born when the first feminicide of this year in Cuba was announced, that of Yuleidis Sánchez Rodríguez, from Altamira, in Santiago de Cuba. Several sources on social networks claim that the 43-year-old woman was stabbed by her ex-partner on the Altamira Reparto Tourist Highway, although other versions indicate that it happened on 14th Street in Luis Dagnes.
Sánchez had left the house shortly after midnight to bring food to some relatives when the attacker attacked her in the middle of the street. The two wounds, in the neck and leg respectively, cost him his life in a few minutes, leaving his three children orphaned. The only male is serving his Mandatory Military Service in Havana, which is why the funeral was delayed.
The alleged murderer surrendered to the Police after being on the run for several hours. Among the hundreds of comments that the event has sparked was that of an acquaintance of the victim, who stated that already in July the deceased told her that she was being threatened by the alleged murderer “with cutting off her face. She had already reported him and the police were looking for him, but he did not appear. That was a premeditated murder,” she claimed.
Sánchez is the first Cuban assassinated so far this year, at least as far as it has been publicly known. The last is, predictably, Elizabeth Hernández-Sánchez, although in this case the crime was committed on the other side of the Strait of Florida and also led to the death of another national, Yeisir Buster Concepción, both of whom were allegedly murdered by Sancti Spiritus native Randy (Randys) Ramírez, her former partner.
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The events occurred in Missouri on December 30 around 3 in the morning. According to official information from the Warren County Sheriff’s Office, several deputies responded to a tip toward South Stracks Church Road and State Highway M, where they found two people seriously injured by firearms who ended up dying. Yeisir Buster Concepción, 42 years old, originally from Céspedes (Camagüey), and Elizabeth Hernández Sánchez, 33 years old, born in Sancti Spíritus, also the mother of three children, two of them from her ex-husband and alleged murderer, were then identified.
Both were attacked while traveling together, presumably by Ramírez, who had previously threatened to kill both of them, a fact that is being investigated by authorities. The aggressor appeared before the police who had responded to the scene, but he pulled out a gun and shot himself.
The local press claims that there are around twenty agents working on this case, which has disrupted life in the quiet town of Warrenton.
Hérnández’s sister has opened a fundraiser on GoFundme to “cover funeral expenses, since everything happened suddenly.” So far, more than half of the 6,000 that the family seeks to raise has already been raised. The funeral is expected to be held next Monday, and although it is not expressly indicated, it can be assumed that it will be in the United States and that Elizabeth will not return to Cuba again.
