The macho murders In Cuba they reached ten so far this year, according to the count of independent activists.
The platforms tense and I do believe you on Thursday the new feminicide, whose victim was a 40 -year -old woman named Yunisleidy López.
The woman, known as Yuni, was killed by her partner on March 27 at home that both shared in the province of Sancti Spíritus, according to the activists.
“The aggressor came to denounce Yuni’s disappearance in the police and participate in the searches organized by relatives and neighbors in the week in an unknown whereabouts,” they said.
Feminists alerted “the trend between the aggressors to cover up the crime with macabre strategies how to make the complaints themselves for the disappearance of their victim.”
Independent groups criticized that the local radio station Radio Sancti Spíritus referred to the case as a “passionate crime”, a term they considered “incorrect and even justification” used “inadequately.”
In addition, they pointed out that they currently investigate alerts of other alleged macho murders in the western provinces of Havana, Artemis and Matanzas and the Oriental Santiago de Cuba.
In 2024, macho violence ended the life of 55 women. However, despite the fact that the number of femicides was less than that of 2023 (85), the number of orphans increased significantly: a total of 62 (21 more than in 2023).
Most macho crimes collated by EFEfrom the records of the independent feminist, the victim’s couples (25) and sentimental companions (20) committed them.
For its part, the Government confirmed last year that the courts identified a total of 110 women over 15 killed by their partners or ex -partners in judgments held in 2023, even though on the island the feminicide is not legally typified as a type of murder.
The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has declared “zero tolerance” against sexist violence and although there are no frequent information about femicides in the state media, in recent months reports and articles on cases of macho murders have appeared.
Two days ago, the Attorney General’s Office, the Ministry of Interior, the Supreme Court and other institutions announced the joint elaboration of a computerized administrative registry, but not public, to collect data on femicides.
EFE/ONCUBA.
