The independent feminist platforms Alas Tensas and Yo Sí Te Creo in Cuba confirmed This Monday a new sexist murder, on April 4 and twenty-third so far in 2023.
The victim is a young woman, whose name and age have not been disclosed, murdered on Sunday at the hands of her partner in the Jesús María neighborhood in Havana.
According to the activists, the femicide is linked to a case of sex trafficking and internal migration (people who move from the provinces to Havana). In this sense, they have called for “an exhaustive police investigation.”
“Several sources indicate that the attacker took the victim to the nearby polyclinic, but it was too late,” they add in their note.
This macho murder adds to the double femicide of a mother and her daughter – on behalf of the former partner of the latter – documented last Thursday by Alas Tensas and Yo Sí Te Creo in the province of Holguín. A day before, the feminists notified the murder of Rosa Amelia Sotolongo22 years old, in the Cienfuegos province.
Two weeks apart, the previous victim had been Darisleni Fuentes Infante, murdered by her ex-partner on March 19 in the Popular Fisheries Council, belonging to the municipality of Baraguá, in Ciego de Ávila. ten days before, Elaidy Alonso Arbolaez27, was also killed by a man who “harassed” her in the community of Condado, in the municipality of Trinidad, in the province of Sancti Spíritus.
The activists permanently advocate for the approval of a comprehensive law on gender violence
Most of the femicides registered on the Island are carried out by partners and ex-partners of the victims. To date, February is the most violent month with 13 murders, plus three in January and three in March. The most affected provinces have been Guantánamo, Villa Clara, Matanzas, Camagüey, Havana, as well as Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Pinar del Río, Sancti Spíritus and Ciego de Ávila.
Yo Sí Te Creo has insisted on the urgency of the “Third Call” to declare a “State of Emergency in Cuba due to Gender Violence”, a petition supported by 15 other independent projects.
The appeal criticizes the lack of protocols and prevention mechanisms in Cuba, the persistence of problems in complying with restraining orders and receiving complaints, as well as the lack of shelters and protection networks.
The activists permanently advocate for the approval of a comprehensive law on gender violence.
The Yo Sí Te Creo observatory recorded 36 sexist murders in 2022 -two of them vicarious- plus seven attempted feminicides and two matricides.
The state press is not accustomed to reporting these facts -increasingly visible through social networks- but lately some media have reported at least two cases that occurred in the provinces of Camagüey and Las Tunas.
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