A woman died this Tuesday after falling from the top floor of a high-rise apartment building in the central Carlos J. Finlay avenue in Camagüey. The news was known, like so many others that the official press does not give, through social networks, and has been confirmed by sources of this newspaper in that city.
Around 8 in the morning, user Egbert Ángel Escobedo Morales shared, “a lady dressed in a custodian’s uniform and who apparently does not live in this building, decides to take her own life by jumping from this 12-story building,” which, she says, ” has the record of about 15 suicides with this one, according to the neighbors”.
Escobedo Morales attached in his post photos of the corpse covered with a sheet, at the foot of the stairs of the building, one of the most recognizable in the city, and denounced: “It is 9:35 am and legal medicine has not yet arrived, just a patrol car that covered the body”.
The slogans painted on the walls at the entrance to the building – “The homeland is worth more than life”, “No one gives up here” – gave the scene an even more gloomy air.
Around the unidentified body, the slogans painted on the walls of the building’s entrance – “The country is worth more than life”, “No one surrenders here” – gave the scene an even more gloomy air.
And he continued: “The social and economic crisis unfortunately increases the cases of suicide, crimes and all kinds of violence in the desperate Cuban population.”
In the same city, last February, the official press confirmed the death of Michel Amodia Ferrer, director of the Camagüey Business Business Group, which his relatives assured was by suicide.
The data published by the National Office of Statistics and Information (Onei) indicate a rise in the number of suicides in Cuba in 2021, the last year recorded, although the Government does not call them that, but rather deaths from “intentionally self-inflicted injuries.” The rate per 100,000 inhabitants went from 14 in 2017 to 16 four years later.
Although the Island has the highest suicide rate on the continent, according to figures from the World Bank and other institutions, such as the Pan American Health Organization, the official media rarely discuss the issue.
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