Cuban rapper Dayan Torres, the maasai, died last Saturday “in the hands of five assailants” in Alamar, Havana del Este. This is how he denounced on his social networks, without offering more details, Eliexer Márquez, the funkyone of the authors of the award-winning song homeland and life.
This Monday, through a live broadcast, Arnau Lizaire explained that Torres was “executed by five criminals” in Alamar, in zone 25, belonging to the Havana municipality. “Hopefully the agencies, the Police and all those people do a good job with the same efficiency as the work is done if that happens with the son or daughter of the people of lineage” to catch the murderers, he cried.
Within the city of Havana, Alamar has traditionally had higher rates of violence, although official statistics on insecurity on the island’s streets are rarely published. Conceived as a neighborhood for the “new man” to inhabit, the area is full of concrete blocks inspired by the communist architecture of Eastern Europe, the lack of road infrastructure, lots of vegetation and large dark areas contribute to crime.
Alamar has traditionally had higher rates of violence, although official statistics on insecurity on the island’s streets are rarely published.
Alamar hardly has recreational options for younger people, it lacks its own cemetery and until a few years ago it did not even have a church. Over the years it has become a commuter town, where most of the workers must go through the bay tunnel to get to their jobs, something complicated in times of fuel crisis.
It was also in Alamar where many locate the birth of Cuban rap and where the independent group Omni Zona Franca had its headquarters for several years until the authorities evicted it from its premises in the Casa de Cultura in the area. Several members of this group, already in exile, lamented the death of Torres. “Have a good trip Masai. May the light of the lights receive you and heal you,” the artist Kizzy Macías wrote on her Facebook account.
According to data provided by the legal organization cubalex, only in the month of May in Cuba six femicides and 11 murders were reported. “We recorded assaults with knives and firearms, confrontations with shots on public roads, violent robberies of minors,” she specified. “In total there were 39 incidents.”
Cubalex warned that the data “should not be considered total”, because despite the fact that there are complaints from victims of human rights violations on their social networks, these are private publications.
“Nor is it possible to hear complaints from persecuted people who do not have a cell phone or mobile data service, which prevents them from publishing their testimony or resorting to third parties to make their case visible,” the NGO said.
According to data provided by the legal organization Cubalex, only in the month of May in Cuba six femicides and 11 murders were reported.
At the beginning of June, some masked men broke into the house of the Catholic priest’s parents Leandro Naun, located in the Santa María neighborhood, on the outskirts of Santiago de Cuba. Her mother, Elsy Hung, was beaten up, while her husband, Nelson Naun, was struck on the head with a machete.
In the list of murders is the case of the cart driver from Santa Clara, Antonio Silvino Diaz Yera, 57, who was assaulted and stabbed outside the Los Caneyes hotel in late May. The victim’s niece, Laurien López, demanded to stop “the speeches that the country is advancing,” because this is only reflected in “delinquency and crimes.”
The murder of a family made up of Maykel González and Linet Lucía and their eight-year-old son, at the hands of a former soldier, also shocked the small town of Cidra, in the municipality of Unión de Reyes (Matanzas), in May. The murderer whose name was not revealed He was arrested when I was thinking of fleeing the Island.
The host of the local radio station CMKS, David Alexis Gonzalez, was assassinated at his home in Guantánamo the last week of April. A source confirmed to 14ymedio that the murderers “entered the house” of the victim and “stabbed him and cut his throat.”
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