That of Nancy Peña is the first femicide registered in Cuba in this month of March. The 49-year-old woman was murdered by her ex-partner last Sunday at her home in the Alcides Pino Popular Council, in Holguín, according to a report CubaNet.
She herself documents the independent journal, had published on social networks his fear that something would happen to him. “I feel threatened by a man,” wrote Peña on March 1, who said he was writing it “in case something happens to me,” since he had reported it to the Police and they had not arrested the individual. “What country do I live in, that doesn’t care about the life of a Cuban citizen,” she lamented.
A friend of the victim told CubaNet that the femicide, who used a knife and had previously assaulted Peña, waited for her son to come out of the house to attack her, and that he also stabbed a neighbor who was talking with her. “Nancy was killed simply because she didn’t want to go on with him, as if she owned her, and her neighbor because she was unlucky enough to be there,” the source told the outlet.
“He killed Nancy simply because he didn’t want to stay with him, as if he were his owner, and the neighbor because he was unlucky enough to be there”
So far in 2023, there are already 17 women killed at the hands of their partner, ex-partner or sexual offenders, according to the report of independent media and platformsin the absence of official data.
On March 5, the authorities informed of the arrest of Liván Reinaldo Mora Pérez, accused of stabbing Vanelis Macola to death on February 28 in the town of Tuinicú, in Sancti Spíritus. According to the official newspaper Escambray, the detainee had “multiple criminal record for the crimes of threats, injuries, theft, rape, robbery with force, among others”.
Earlier this month, the organization Yo Sí Te Creo in Cuba had identified Isabel Rodríguez Díaz as the victim of a femicide that took place on February 11 in Camagüey.
This March 8, in which International Women’s Day was commemorated throughout the world, the group of activists who planned to hold a peaceful demonstration had to protest in silence.
The National Assembly did not accept the letter that was sent to them by the women, and some of them were later harassed by State Security and detained. Two initiatives transcended: wear a black belt on the wrist as a sign of mourning and a “virtual march” to continue asking the Government to protect women.
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