MIAMI, United States. – The body of the young Cuban Claudia Montes, 22, was found lifeless this Saturday, as confirmed by several of her relatives on social networks. Montes, who lived in the municipality of Martí, in Matanzas, had been reported missing 14 days ago.
“My little sister, they took you from our side, from the side of your little girl who desperately misses you, I only ask God to have you in his glory… I have no words for my pain, I only swear that that wretch who took your life He will pay handsomely.” posted on facebook her sister Laura Montes.
Montes was last seen on June 11. Due to the alleged lack of interest of the Martí Police to solve the case, her family asked for help on social networks to locate the young woman, the mother of a four-year-old girl.
“Many times I have said that I do not find the words to express my feelings but today I really do not find them, if there is any pain that is felt beyond the depths of the heart, I am feeling that today”, wrote on facebook her aunt, Gladys Pérez Compte.
“Sadly our 22-year-old niece Claudia was taken from us,” he confirmed.
Although the authorities have not ruled on the discovery of the body, the murder of Claudia Montes would be the second femicide registered in Cuba during the month of June and the thirteenth 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.
just this friday transcended that The young Cuban Patricia Williams, 30 years old and a resident of the Los Pinos neighborhood, Boyeros municipality, in Havana, had been murdered by her partner on the night of June 22.
“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”, lament the feminist platform Yo SíTeCreo in Cuba as a result of the femicide of Williams.
“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,” added 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 close to turning 22 years old. 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. This 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.
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