AREQUIPA, Peru – The murders of Cuban women Yucleidis Morales, Yadira Moreira Pernas and Dagnis Alida Hernández Milanés raise the number of femicides in Cuba to 42 in 2024. reported this Friday the Alas Tensas Gender Observatory (OGAT).
The platform indicates that the three victims were murdered in their places of residence or work by their partners or ex-partners.
Yucleidis Morales, known as Cuca, was murdered in her home in Baltony, Songo-La Maya municipality, Santiago de Cuba, allegedly by her partner on October 6.
Days later, on October 13, Dagnis Alida Hernández, 39, was murdered at her home in the San Pedrito neighborhood, in Santiago de Cuba, due to injuries caused by her ex-partner. The young woman had filed previous complaints with the police against her attacker, according to independent observatories.
For her part, Yadira Moreira Pernas, 36 years old, was also murdered at his workplace on October 16. The crime occurred in a cafeteria in Güines, Mayabeque, and was perpetrated by his ex-partner, who was on prison leave.
OGAT and the collective Yo Sí Te Creo en Cuba (YSTCC) have verified, as of October 22, 2024, some 42 femicides and five attempted feminicides this year. The observatories also include in their sub-registration six additional cases that require access to police investigation in several provinces, including episodes of extreme violence reported in Havana, Villa Clara and Santiago de Cuba.
At the beginning of August, the island’s regime revealed 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.
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.
