SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- Between Sunday, October 6 and the early hours of Monday, October 7, an 18-year-old Cuban girl was murdered by her partner in Mayajigua, in the municipality of Yaguajay, in Sancti Spíritus, as confirmed by the magazine’s gender violence observatories Tense Wings (OGAT) and the YoYesTeCreo platform in Cuba.
In a social media publication, the independent platforms stated that the victim’s name was Liz Yohana Jiménez Morales and she died at the hands of her partner, who is a minor.
“In this case, we warn about the importance of talking about dating violence and between minors, given that this is not the first case where adolescents are involved in feminicidal violence,” stated YoSíTeCreo in Cuba.
In turn, they expressed their condolences to Liz Yohana’s family, and extended their empathy towards the aggressor’s family, “who is devastated.”
With this feminicide, there are 39 crimes confirmed by the Cuban observatories, which keep an under-record of femicides on the Island, due to the lack of an official registry of the regime and the impossibility of accessing the case files.
According to the platforms, five attempted feminicides and two murders of men for gender reasons have also been reported in 2024.
Cuban activists, who have made these gender-based crimes visible, exposed another feminicide, which occurred on September 19, when a 47-year-old woman was murdered in Florida, Camagueyfor your partner.
Annelis Hernández Puerto, 47 years old, died in her home at the hands of her partner, who later committed suicide. Hernández is survived by an adult son.
On that occasion, the groups they alerted that these cases are a “repeated example of misogyny in Cuba.”
At the beginning of August, the island’s regime confirmed that a total of 110 women had been murdered at the hands of their partners or ex-partners throughout 2023. The figure, which was released by the Cuban Observatory on Gender Equality (state), only includes those cases that were tried during the last year and in which the victim was over 15 years old.
According to the agency EFEthe rate of femicides on the Island (although not exhaustive) is the sixth highest in all of Latin America and the Caribbean compared to the records of sexist murders from the Gender Equality Observatory of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ( ECLAC) of 2022.
Presumably, the visibility of cases of sexist violence in independent media and on social networks led the Government to propose an Interoperable Administrative Registry, “that allows for real-time information on the violent deaths of women and girls for reasons of gender”.
However, feminist organizations consider that this measure is insufficient and that the Government must take concrete actions to prevent and punish sexist violence.
