SLP, Mexico.- A 28-year-old Cuban, father of a three-year-old girl, He was murdered this December 31 in San José de los Ramos, municipality of Colón, Matanzas, as confirmed by the victim’s spouse on social networks.
According to several sources who left their testimony on Facebook, Yadiel Carballo Castañeda would have been attacked in his home in San José de los Ramos, during the early hours of the last day of 2024.
“What they did cannot be forgiven but I, my life, am going to do everything I can to make them pay for what they did to you, a loss like that cannot be made up for, they did not care about my daughter or the suffering of two mothers, for “That’s what I ask for justice to be done,” read in the note written by the wife, in Carballo’s own profile.
Yadiel Carballo would have been stabbed in his home in front of his wife and daughter, according to Internet user Víctor Hernández, who noted that the crime It would have been a “settling of accounts.”
Its publication states that the victim would have defended himself and wounded one of his three attackers before dying. The latter, identified as Niubel Chacón, was taken to a hospital and photographed while crying.
“Don’t worry, justice will be done, these murderers will pay for what they did,” a Cuban commented on the spouse’s post.
So far neither the authorities nor the official press have offered information about this violent event that adds to the wave of violence on the Island.
In the early morning of this January 1, a 31-year-old young man, identified as Elio Delis Hardy, and father of a six-year-old child, was murdered in the ‘El Salao’ neighborhood, in Santiago de Cuba, as reported the independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta through social networks and corroborated CubaNet with local sources.
The crime, which marks the first publicly reported homicide in the eastern city this year, occurred in a building in the area known as Micro II. According to the information available, Delis Hardy was stabbed by a man who was accompanied by other young people from the area. Although the exact reason for the attack has not yet been clarified, relatives suggest that the conflict could be related to the sale of a mobile phone, Mayeta said.
Although the official figures have remained silent on the Island violent crime rates and Cuba stood out as one of the least dangerous countries in the Western Hemisphere, the economic crisis, the scarcity of basic resources and the weakening of the social fabric have contributed to the increase in crimes such as violent robberies and murders.
Although until 2019 the regime had reported some of the lowest rates of violent crime in the Western Hemisphere, the picture has changed.
a special published by CubaNet In 2024, it has recorded violent events and citizen insecurity in the 15 provinces of the country, in rural and urban areas; in public spaces, homes and in state institutions. In the case of femicides, the highest incidence occurred in the homes of the victims themselves (more than 80 percent). On the contrary, in the case of murders of men, they occurred mainly in public spaces (38.78%), as occurred with Delis.
Of the 187 murders that we verified based on citizen complaints from across the country, 27 were related to robberies.
