Havana/A worker in a bakery in Luyanó, in the Havana municipality of Diez de Octubre, her son and her mother are injured, after the young woman’s partner stabbed them last Sunday. According to a local resident, who spoke to 14ymediothe three victims – whose names have not been revealed – are admitted to the Miguel Enríquez hospital in the capital, although the young woman is the only one reported to be in serious condition.
According to the same source, the worker received at least seven stab wounds, while her son and mother were injured when trying to intervene. His attacker, identified as Omar Fundora, escaped, and until now there is no news about his arrest.
The news, which began to spread like wildfire among the neighbors this Monday morning, was also spread by the communicator’s page Niover Liceawhich hours later published the alleged image of the aggressor. In your profile Facebookthe man has only uploaded four photographs, two of them accompanied by a woman, but without further details.
Just last Thursday, the independent platform Alas Tensas confirmed the feminicide of Yaimeé Carranza Herrera32, who was murdered on February 24 in Santa Clara while walking with her 14-year-old son.
The case has some similarities with the one registered in Luyanó. According to details provided by testimonies on social networks, Carranza was heading to her workplace when, in the section of the ring road between the highway and the road to Camajuaní, she was stabbed multiple times by a man, with whom, despite some photographs having been made public, it has not been specified whether she had any type of relationship.
Carranza’s sexist murder was the eighth on the Island so far in 2026, according to this media’s record.
According to a report from the Alas Tensas and Yo Sí Te Creo observatories in Cuba83.3% of femicides in the country in 2025 were committed by the victims’ partners and in more than 90% of cases the aggressor had a previous relationship with the victim. Likewise, the home was the main scene of the crime (62.5%) and the use of knives predominated (64.6%). In two-thirds of the cases, aggravating factors of special cruelty were identified, “which reflects high levels of cruelty,” according to the report.
In 29 cases (60.4%) the victims had dependents in their care, mainly underage daughters and sons, “which has generated situations of orphanhood and lack of protection without specific state policies for reparation and support.”
Regarding violence in general, crime in Cuba last year increased by 115% compared to 2024, according to the most recent report from the Cuban Observatory of Citizen Audit (OCAC), which has collected this data since 2023. In total, the organization identified and verified 2,833 crime reports, compared to 1,317 in 2024 and 649 in 2023. If compared to that year, the figure has grown by 336.58%.
Since that year, crimes have not only been sustained, but have doubled in number in parallel with the worsening of the economic and social crisis, far from the discourse of the ruling party, which maintains that there is a “trend to decrease”, as reported on the Presidency portal and statements by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero in 2024 and 2025.
This increase also translated into victims, which last year were 700 – 335 men, 213 women, 48 minors and 62 elderly –, 173 more than in 2024 and 257 more than in 2023.
The report places violent deaths at 173, including femicides, while the perpetrators were 170, of which only four were women.
