MADRID, Spain.- The Cuban regime confirmed this Thursday that a total of 110 women were murdered at the hands of their partners or ex-partners in 2023. According to data provided by the Cuban Observatory on Gender Equality, cited by the EFE agencyThe figure includes cases that were tried during the past year and in which the victim was over 15 years old.
The report, which does not call these crimes feminicidesdistinguishes between murders prosecuted by the courts “for reasons of gender”, which total 60 cases, and those that, although committed by partners or ex-partners of the victims, were not judged with that aggravating circumstance, totaling 50 cases.
With these figures, Cuba closed 2023 with a rate of 2.16 femicides per 100,000 women. This rate is the sixth highest in all of Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) records for 2022.
Furthermore, the official figure is higher than the 89 femicides recorded by the independent feminist platforms Yo Sí Te Creo and the Gender Observatory of Tense Wings (OGAT) in the same period. Last March, when presenting its Annual Report on Femicides in CubaThese platforms described 2023 as “very dramatic for Cuban women.”
According to the report, of the 89 femicides, 67 were committed with knives; 39 of the victims They were between 31 and 45 years old (the most represented age group); in 12 of the cases there were previous complaints that were ignored by the Police; and 76 of the perpetrators were partners or ex-partners of the victims.
Last week the official newspaper Granma She reported on the creation of the “National System for the registration, attention, follow-up and monitoring of gender violence in the family setting.” This system, presented by the Attorney General of the Republic, Yamila Peña Ojeda, to the Council of Ministers, aims to generate statistical information to prevent gender violence.
During the presentation, Peña Ojeda indicated that in 2023, 75% of gender-based violence incidents occurred in homes, a trend that continues this year. In addition, 72% of the victims were between 25 and 59 years old, and 45% were unpaid workers. 84% of the aggressors were partners or ex-partners of the victims and 31% had criminal records for violent acts.
After learning about the creation of the National System for registration, attention, follow-up and monitoring of gender violence incidents, OGAT regretted that Granma It did not clarify whether this would be public or not. “The transparency of statistics on gender-based violence is one of the demands that the gender observatories of OGAT and YSTCC have been asking for several years, organizations that have been under-reporting feminicides in Cuba since 2019, under the criminalization of the regime,” the publication noted.
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