Madrid Spain.- The feminist platform Alas Tensas demanded that the Cuban government authorities act in the face of the increase in femicides in Cuba in recent times.
“If the regime does not fully recognize that it is not showing any kind of political will to contribute to the eradication of gender violence, and if it does not take urgent and effective actions, it is behaving like a femicide,” Alas Tensas denounced.
The group remembered through Facebook that last year the secretary general of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), Teresa Amarelle, announced that the methodology of the official Femicide Observatory was being studied.
However, since then the Alas Tensas Observatory has verified 40 femicides, most of them committed by partners and ex-partners of the victims, which have not been reported by the official press.
Alas Tensas stated that Cuban women are going through one of the worst economic crises since the 1990s; and they are in “total vulnerability within society” as they lack shelters and personnel in the police and in health centers trained to respond and care for them in cases of sexist violence.
This situation is aggravated “without the criminalization of femicide within the Penal Code and with the criminalization of all types of citizen activism,” highlights the feminist platform.
This same week, Yo Sí Te Creo En Cuba, also a defender of women, warned the authorities “to take extreme measures and avoid stereotypes and justifications when mental illness and sexist violence intersect.”
As a result of the feminicide of the Cuban citizen Odalys LavinI do believe you in Cuba demanded clarity from the regime in the investigations into these cases.
Odalys Lavin, 55, was killed by her husband on April 30 in her own home in Matanzas.
Lavin’s femicide is the third registered in Cuba during the month of April and the tenth reported since the 1st. January 2022. There could be more cases, but the independent organizations that regularly report cases of sexist violence do not have access to official statistics.
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