SANTIAGO DE CUBA. – Last Thursday, the young Yadira Sueiro Pérez, 22, died after being attacked by her ex-partner in the town known as Corralón, in the Songo La Maya municipality, Santiago de Cuba. Pérez received multiple machetes in different parts of her body and died in the hospital. Her funeral took place on Friday afternoon.
“Since I saw her arrive at the polyclinic I knew that she was not going to be saved, because she was very, very hurt,” she told CubaNet a worker at the Carlos J. Finlay polyclinic in La Maya, where Sueiro was transferred after the attack.
The victim has no surviving children.
The murderer, Osmel Morell Plutín, 24, was handed over to the Police by his father, a soldier. “As soon as he did it, he looked for his father to hand him over to the police,” said a source close to the family.
Also in Songo La Maya, in September of this year, she was murdered by her partner Yesenia Hernández Carrión. The 23-year-old woman from Santiago was hit on the head by her husband, and after several days in intensive care, she died.
Only in the first semester of this year, in Cuba 23 women were murdered, many of them at the hands of their partners, confirmed in August the Cuban feminist platform Yo SíTeCreo in Cuba.
The activist group also confirmed that during the same time period there were a vicarious femicide and five attempted violent assaults for reasons of gender.
Throughout 2021, the independent feminist platform and the magazine Tense Wings They counted 36 femicides, four more violent deaths than in 2020 when they registered 32 (including four vicarious femicides).
“The number of femicides verified during the first half of 2022 is alarming,” said Yo SíTeCreo in Cuba when announcing the figures of extreme violence against women so far this year.
There could be more cases of femicide on the island, but the independent organizations that regularly report episodes of sexist violence do not have access to official statistics.
“Cuba cannot continue without carrying out the standard mechanisms to confront femicide violence: states of emergency must be declared, shelters created, specific protocols for the disappearance of people, and a specialized system. If the authorities do not want to or cannot, then let civil society work and support. Cases of femicide continue to be reported and there is no state response. How many more must die unnecessarily?” asked the activists of YoSiTeCreo.
They also said that this situation was “alarming”, especially in “a scenario of economic and political crisis.”
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