With this case, the observatories raise the number of verified femicides in Cuba to 44 in 2025.
MIAMI, United States. – The magazine’s Gender Observatory Tense Wings (OGAT) and the YoYesTeCreo platform in Cuba (YSTCC) confirmed a new feminicide occurred on the Island, that of the 26-year-old girl Elianne Reyes Gómez, murdered by her partner on December 7 in their home in Madruga, province of Mayabeque.
In the note spread on social networks, the OGAT and YSTCC regretted the crime and indicated that the victim is survived by a young daughter.
The observatories stressed that the information about this murder was initially disseminated by “the media, citizens and activists” and that it was verified “with community sources.” It is the methodology that both initiatives have consolidated in recent years: a network of observers and local contacts that allows cases to be documented and confirmed in the face of the lack of transparent official statistics on femicides in Cuba.
According to the registry updated by OGAT and YSTCC until December 10, the number of verified femicides in the year amounts to 44. Added to this is one murder of a man for gender reasons and 16 attempted feminicides. In parallel, the organizations keep three files open that, they emphasize, “need access to the police investigation” to reach a definitive conclusion.
In addition to the facts already confirmed, the OGAT and YSTCC warned that they continue to investigate new alerts of possible femicides or other extreme forms of gender violence: one in Santiago de Cuba, two in Guantánamo, two in Camagüey, two in Artemisa, one in Villa Clara and another in Granma.
The OGAT and YSTCC are today the main independent references in monitoring femicides on the Island. Given the absence or opacity of state data, these projects have become a key source for measuring sexist violence in Cuba.
At the beginning of last July, the Cuban Observatory on Gender Equality (OCIG, state) reported that the judicial processes concluded in 2024 accounted for a total of 76 Cuban women aged 15 or older murdered for reasons of gender. (These are not strictly the victims of femicides that occurred in 2024 on the Island, but only those involved in judicial processes concluded that year and collected by the Complementary Statistical Information Subsystem of the Supreme People’s Court).
Although the official OCIG report avoided using the term “feminicide”, the statistic corresponds, according to its definitions, to cases of extreme gender violence that resulted in intentional homicides. Of the 76 judicialized murders, 55 were perpetrated by the victim’s partner or ex-partner, and 21 by other known people.
Since 2019, the OGAT and YSTCC They have verified at least 300 femicides in Cubadespite operating in a hostile environment characterized by the criminalization of feminist activism, restricted access to institutional sources and the lack of a legal classification of feminicide in Cuban legislation.
While the authorities use expressions such as “murder for gender reasons” or “extreme gender violence”, independent groups insist on the need to name the problem as feminicide and demand the creation of public registration protocols and a comprehensive law against gender violence.
The Cuban State does not systematically publish annual statistics with detailed methodology nor does it offer disaggregated data with an intersectional approach accessible to citizens. This institutional opacity continues to be an obstacle to measuring the true magnitude of the phenomenon.
The OGAT and YSTCC maintain support lines and a mechanism for reporting and verifying femicides and attempts, supported by citizen complaints, media coverage and work in the territory. Its methodology—based on community verification and public documentation—is available in its institutional channels.
