(EFE).- The independent platforms confirmed this Tuesday two new femicides in Cuba, bringing the total number of sexist murders to six so far this year.
Yo Sí Te Creo and Alas Tensas, which record cases of sexist violence in the absence of official statistics, reported on Twitter that the murdered were Arletis Almarales and Yanet Rodríguez.
The first, a 40-year-old physiotherapist residing in the Holguín province, was attacked by her ex-partner on a public highway on January 26, the activists said.
Yanet (33 years old) “died at the hands of her ex-partner on February 3 in San Agustín, La Lisa, in Havana.” In his case, they denounced “the situation of family violence (gender and child violence, specifically) in this home and the need for comprehensive actions in these cases.”
The previous verified femicide in Cuba took place last Sunday in the Camagüey province when a 50-year-old man, with a criminal record, murdered his ex-partner, a minor under 17according to an unusual statement from the Ministry of the Interior.
These groups have repeatedly called for effective mechanisms for the prevention of gender violence “so as not to reach its extreme manifestation, which is irreparable.”
This case has generated commotion, reflected above all on social networks, since the young woman was murdered in a police station, when she tried to protect herself from her attacker.
The independent Cuban observatories verified 34 sexist murders in 2022, after 36 in 2021 and 32 in 2020.
These groups have demanded on several occasions effective mechanisms for the prevention of gender violence “so as not to reach its extreme manifestation, which is irreparable,” they pointed out.
The activists demand a law against Gender Violence and criticize the Cuban government for not expressly classifying femicide as a crime in the new Penal Code, which came into force last December, despite the fact that it contemplates gender-based violence.
The most recent official statistics appear in the 2016 National Gender Equality Survey in which 10,698 women participated.
The survey showed 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 twelve months prior to the study. Of these, only 3.7% of the assaulted requested institutional help.
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