Until this Tuesday, 35 femicides have also been verified that occurred this year alone.
MIAMI, United States. — The magazine’s Gender Observatory Tense Wings (OGAT) and the YoYesTeCreo platform in Cuba (YSTCC) reported that, until this Tuesday, they had verified 12 attempted feminicides in the country. According to the cut released by both initiatives, the victims are nine cisgender women, one trans woman and two girls.
The events occurred in the municipalities of Havana (unspecified), Güines (Mayabeque), Matanzas and Cárdenas (Matanzas), Remedios (Villa Clara), Ciego de Ávila, Camagüey, Guisa (Granma), Santiago de Cuba and Holguín. In addition, they are investigating a case in Guantánamo and another in Villa Clara.
The organizations defined that “they are attempts at feminicide when the victim(s) carry out direct attacks against the victim(s) because they are women, but do not achieve their goal of taking their lives.”
The report is published a few days after the same observatories will confirm two new femicides—which occurred in Havana and Granma—and the number of fatalities due to sexist violence in 2025 will be updated to 35.
At the beginning of last July, the Cuban Observatory on Gender Equality (OCIG, state) reported that the judicial processes concluded in 2024 accounted for a total of 76 Cuban women aged 15 or older murdered for reasons of gender. (These are not strictly the victims of femicides that occurred in 2024 on the Island, but only those involved in judicial processes concluded that year and collected by the Complementary Statistical Information Subsystem of the Supreme People’s Court).
Although the official OCIG report avoided using the term “feminicide”, the statistic corresponds, according to its definitions, to cases of extreme gender violence that resulted in intentional homicides. Of the 76 judicialized murders, 55 were perpetrated by the victim’s partner or ex-partner, and 21 by other known people.
Since 2019, the OGAT and YSTCC They have verified at least 300 femicides in Cubadespite operating in a hostile environment characterized by the criminalization of feminist activism, restricted access to institutional sources and the lack of a legal classification of feminicide in Cuban legislation.
While the authorities use expressions such as “murder for gender reasons” or “extreme gender violence”, independent groups insist on the need to name the problem as feminicide and demand the creation of public registration protocols and a comprehensive law against gender violence.
The Cuban State does not systematically publish annual statistics with detailed methodology nor does it offer disaggregated data with an intersectional approach accessible to citizens. This institutional opacity continues to be an obstacle to measuring the true magnitude of the phenomenon.
