Lisandra Crespo Rodriguez, 18 years old, She is the second woman murdered by her ex-partner. in just two days. The young woman died in Sagua la Grande, Villa Clara, after allegedly being repeatedly stabbed by a pedicab driver with whom she had had a relationship, according to local media.
“The young woman was not from here, but from Quemado de Güines. The murderer entered the nightclub and beat the girl, for which they expelled him. But he waited for her outside and, when she left, he gave her about 20 stabbed in Padre Varela street, in front of a bar in the area,” said a resident of the municipality, Jaime Castillo.
The alleged perpetrator of the death was beaten by a crowd of people who were inside the premises, called Artex, and who were alerted by what was happening
According to this same witness, the alleged perpetrator of the death was beaten by a crowd of people who were inside the premises, called Artex, and who were alerted to what was happening, although to date no further details have emerged. about the situation of the subject, known as Biruli in the locality.
The events occurred early Saturday morning, just 48 hours after the murder of Yanet Martínez Guzmán, 47, in Minas, Camagüey. With the death of Lisandra Crespo, there are 32 women murdered by their current or former partners in Cuba so far this year.
In addition, October has become the worst month according to the unofficial data available, since the Cuban government still does not have a record of victims of sexist violence.
The first femicide this month transpired on October 11, when Cuban actor Jesús Rodríguez Vázquez allegedly murdered his ex-wife, Nodis Morales, and then hanged himself. The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday, October 3.
Subsequently there were two murders in Santiago de Cuba, the first of Yadira Sueiro Pérez, 22, on October 16, when she was allegedly attacked by her ex-partner with a machete in Corralón, located in the Santiago municipality of Songo La Maya. Three days later, Eudelvis Leyva Rivera, a 19-year-old mother of a nine-month-old girl, was found dead with several wounds on her body, a victim of rape and her throat slit.
A week later, the Alas Tensas and YoSíTeCreo observatories confirmed the violent death of Lisandra Fernández, 34, who died at the hands of her husband in the city of Las Tunas.
Yanet Martínez was murdered with machetes on Thursday, allegedly by Héctor, an officer of the National Revolutionary Police whose surnames are unknown and who works in this town.
Yanet Martínez was murdered with machetes on Thursday, presumably by Héctor, an officer of the National Revolutionary Police whose surnames are unknown and who works in this town. After committing the crime, she fled and her whereabouts are still unknown.
Both were a couple for five years and had recently separated.
Although the Government recognizes gender-based violence in the Constitution and the recently approved Family Code, in Cuba femicide is not classified as a crime or aggravating circumstance in the Penal Code, a situation repeatedly denounced by independent feminist associations.
The most recent official data dates back to the 2016 National Survey on Gender Equality, which revealed that 26.7% of Cuban women between the ages of 15 and 74 claimed to have suffered some type of violence in their partner relationship in the past few years. twelve months prior to the study and that only 3.7% of those attacked requested institutional help.
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