Nayibis is one more victim of sexist violence on the island. The platform Yo Sí Te Creo en Cuba (YSTC) specified on its social networks that mammothsas people close to the victim called, was murdered on May 30 by her ex-partner, “who later turned himself in to the Police.”
This femicide, number 35 so far this year, occurred in the rural town of Las Nuevas, in La Sierpe, Sancti Spíritus. The information was verified by YSTC and the Alas Tensas Gender Observatory (OGAT), after an alert from journalist Alberto Arego.
It was the same communicator who told on Facebook that Nayibis was a “primary school teacher in the town of Las Nuevas” and mother of two children, one 17 years old and the other 13 or 14. According to testimonies, the feminicide, from whom he had separated months ago, had ingested alcoholic beverages the day the crime was committed.
The victim’s body was lying in his house for around three hours, until the experts arrived at ten o’clock at night. “When the police arrived it was late, but they did arrest him,” said one of the neighbors.
Nayibis was a “primary school teacher in the town of Las Nuevas” and mother of two children, one 17 years old and the other 13 or 14.
The Alas Tensas platform reiterated a third call for the Government of Cuba to “declare the state of emergency due to gender violence“, stressing that it is necessary because “numerous acts of extreme violence have been reported in a short space of time.”
He insisted that it is urgent to have a mechanism that allows “establishing measures to prevent and eradicate behaviors that promote gender violence, together with protection protocols for survivors.”
Alas Tensas recalled that weeks ago, “two disappearances of women were registered that became femicides”; in addition to another case of sexist violence in a police station, where “the 17-year-old victim had managed to enter asking for help while she was fleeing from her attacker and ex-partner, 49 years old and with a criminal record.”
The platform also listed the legal and social gaps that remain on the island: “we lack protocols and effective prevention mechanisms in Cuba, because we do not have access to justice: problems persist in complying with restraining orders and receiving complaints “.
The activists regretted that everything remains in promises such as the program for the advancement of women and that “the promised Gender Violence Observatory has not yet arrived. Line 103 was not active for even a year,” they add.
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