MIAMI, United States. – The young Cuban Patricia Williams, 30 years old and a resident of the Los Pinos neighborhood, Boyeros municipality, in Havana, was murdered by her partner on the night of June 22, the feminist platform confirmed on Monday. I do believe you in Cuba and the magazine Tense Wings.
Williams is survived by a minor daughter, both sources said.
The feminicide of the young woman is the first registered in Cuba during the month of June and the twelfth reported since the 1st. January 2022. There could be more cases, but the independent organizations that regularly report episodes of sexist violence do not have access to official statistics.
“We continue to warn of the singularity of femicide violence, which in this case reiterates the cruelty and cruelty on women’s bodies. And specifically, it must be addressed in confronting the general problem of gender violence, which in the Cuban case continues to be fragmented and limited,” said Yo SíTeCreo in Cuba.
For the feminist platform, “the lack of recognition is so profound [de la violencia machista en la Isla] that a new Penal Code has been approved, without defining the different types of femicides. Faced with the Cuban State’s ignorance of the problem, femicides fall on society and families,” lamented the group of feminist activists.
Femicide: an evil that stalks Cuban women
In the middle of last May, the Cuban Women’s Network denounced a femicide perpetrated in La Vuelta del Caño, a rural community in the province of Granma located a few kilometers from the city of Manzanillo.
The feminist platform specified that the victim’s name was Yurisnelsy and she was about to turn 22. He also specified that the young woman left “two small children” as orphans. She “she was stabbed enormously. She cut off both her breasts. The perpetrator is from Havana [y fue] detained in Manzanillo”, specified the same source.
Also, on April 30, the Cuban Odalys Lavin, 55, was killed by her husband. Said femicide occurred in her own home, in the city of Cárdenas, Matanzas, according to reported I do believe you in Cuba.
The group of activists specified that the victim’s partner, who committed suicide after committing the crime, had a history of sexist violence.
“We alert citizens and authorities to take extreme measures and avoid stereotypes and justifications when mental illness and sexist violence intersect. We demand clarity in the investigations into this case, which could imply the responsibility of hospital centers,” YoSiTeCreo also requested in Cuba.
Meanwhile, on April 21, the feminist platform also confirmed the femicide of the young mother Eriday Soto Martínez, 26, which occurred on March 24 in the Argentina Sur neighborhood of the Jobabo municipality, in Las Tunas.
Soto Martínez “was a victim of femicide by the father of her five-month-old baby, whose death we also regret by vicarious femicide,” indicated the support platform for women victims of sexist violence.
In mid-April, YoSiTeCreo in Cuba and the feminist magazine Tense Wings confirmed the femicide of Yamilka Silva, who died in the early hours of April 12 after her partner went to “attack her at her father’s house (…), where she had taken refuge, according to community sources.”
Last March three women were murdered on the island, in the provinces of Havana, Matanzas and Las Tunas. In February a young woman died at the hands of a man who harassed her and whose case was already known by the Police. In January three women victims of gender violence were murdered in Villa Clara, Camagüey and Guantánamo.
During 2021, according to a report published by the Gender Violence Observatory of Tense Wingsat least 36 women died in Cuba as a result of sexist violence.
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