SLP, Mexico.- A Cuban mother of two girls was murdered at the hands of her ex-partner in Santa Clara, Villa Clara, at the beginning of this month, a crime that raised the number of femicides in Cuba to 46 in 2024, according to reports from independent feminist platforms.
The lifeless body of Elaine González Estrada was found on November 5 at her ex-partner’s house, after her disappearance had been reported on social networks of friends and family, according to the information offered this Thursday by the gender observatories. IYesI Believe in Cuba and from the magazine Tense Wings.
The observatories specified that González was missing since November 3. After the feminicide, the aggressor, her ex-partner, fled but was captured.
The platforms’ complaint detailed that the authorities, instead of helping, re-victimized their relatives during the search process.
“In this case, we focus on the re-victimization that the family has suffered due to the poor work of the authorities, as reported on social networks,” they alleged.
With the murder of González Estrada, the number of femicides that occurred in Cuba this year reaches 46 cases.
Feminist activists alluded to the femicides preceded by citizen alerts of early disappearances, which are not considered fundamental by the authorities. “The time of action is decisive to find a person at risk alive.”
The platforms also reported that five attempts at feminicide have been recorded and they need access to the police investigation of six possible cases of sexist crimes that occurred in Havana (3), Santiago de Cuba (2) and Villa Clara (1).
In addition, they are investigating other possible femicides, two in Matanzas and one in Las Tunas, another in Holguín, Guantánamo, Ciego de Ávila and Santiago de Cuba.
Also this month, Dianelis Veloz Hernández and Yoannia (Yuyi) Hernández Pupo, both young mothers, were murdered in public places.
The rate of femicides on the Island (although not exhaustive) is the sixth highest in all of Latin America and the Caribbean compared to the records of sexist murders from the Gender Equality Observatory of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). ) of 2022, as reported by the agency EFE.
The visibility of cases of sexist violence in independent media and on social networks led the Government to propose an Interoperable Administrative Registry, “that allows for real-time information on the violent deaths of women and girls for reasons of gender”.
