CDMX, Mexico. – A Cuban woman identified as Yurina Yaque Pérez was assassinated on Monday night on Céspedes avenue in the Sueño neighborhood, in Santiago de Cuba. As the independent newspaper could corroborate 14ymedio, the woman would have been killed by her partner, who cut her throat in the middle of the street.
Although it was relatively early, between 7:00 and 8:00 at night, the perpetrator took advantage of the fact that there was no electricity and a heavy downpour was falling, so his victim would be more unprotected.
“It was her partner who cut her throat yesterday in the downpour,” he assured 14ymedio one of the sources consulted.
With this crime there are 11 femicide registered in Cuba so far this year, which represents (in a month and a half) a third of the total number of women murdered for gender reasons in 2022, according to reports from independent organizations. This year they have killed almost two women a week.
Yurina is survived by an adult daughter, who had recently immigrated to the United States.
Offenders mostly know the victims
Most of the murdered Cuban women have been killed in their own homes or very close by, by men they knew. Just three days ago, Mercedes Vasallo Herrera, 51, was murdered by her partner in Jovellanos, Matanzas, inside her own room.
Meanwhile, in Camagüey, Arisdani Viamontes Tomás, 43, was murdered by her husband Yisney López in the house where they both lived on January 27. Her perpetrator killed her with a knife, according to a relative who contacted CubaNet and asked to protect his identity.
This medium also confirmed the femicide of Neisa López Vargas who had filed a complaint against her perpetrator in the Municipal Unit of the PNR of Bayamo, months before. “She accused him of harassment and nothing happened to her, like she always did,” her stepmother, Lien Alvarado, explained on Facebook. The authorities only arrested the murderer after he stabbed the young woman 17 times, a few meters from where her children and her husband were. Despite the fact that he had murdered her ex-partner and was stalking Neisa, the police did nothing to protect the young woman.
Faced with this wave of murders, activists have asked the regime to declare a “state of emergency” and promote public policies and legal mechanisms; but so far no response from the authorities that continue to make invisible the theme and hiding the real statistics.
