Since 2019, independent activist organizations have verified more than 270 femicides in Cuba.
Miami, United States. – The magazine’s gender observatory Tense wings (OGAT) and the Yosítecreo gender violence support platform in Cuba (YSTCC) confirmed two new femicides that occurred in Cuba on August 4 and 5, which raises the macho mortal crimes verified on the island to 24.
“We regret two new femicides in Cuba, which once again demonstrates the serious consequences that the State does not stop gender violence or the general rise in crime in Cuba,” They pointed out Both entities in their social networks.
On August 5, Milagros Batista Estévez, 56, was killed by his ex -partner in his home of the cast Alex Urquiola, in the city of Holguín. According to the OGAT, the crime occurred “despite several complaints prior to the police.”
A day earlier, on August 4, Mailenis Blanco Amor, 47, was killed in his home in a coup, Municipality of the South (Pinar del Río). According to the Observatory, three strangers who passed by police broke into the house and perpetrated the fact.
The OGAT and YSTCC said that not all murder of a woman linked to robberies constitutes femicide, but in this case “gender bias is evidenced since the aggressors waited for the victim to be alone and exercised excessive violence against her.”
The organizations made their condolences public to the families of both victims: in the case of Holguín, “to the two children of legal age of miracles, and their grandchildren, other relatives and relatives, in addition to the community that lived moments of terror caused by the aggressor and the inaction of the police”; And in the case of Pinar del Río, “to the elderly children of Mailenis, other relatives and relatives, who demand justice due to evidence that organized crime grows in Cuba.”
Both organizations indicated that, until this Tuesday, in addition to the 24 femicides, they had confirmed the murder of men for gender reasons and two attempts of femicide. In addition, they specified that they investigate four alerts of sexist crimes: one in Holguín, one in Santiago de Cuba, one in Villa Clara and one in Camagüey.
More than twenty sexist crimes so far from 2025
At the beginning of last July, the Cuba Observatory on gender equality (OCIG, state) reported that the judicial processes completed in 2024 gave an account of a total of 76 Cuban women 15 years or more killed for gender reasons. (It is not strictly about the victims of femicides that occurred in 2024 on the island, but only those involved in judicial processes completed that year and collected by the complementary statistical information subsystem of the Popular Supreme Court).
Although the official OCIG report avoided using the term “feminicide”, statistics correspond, according to its definitions, to cases of extreme gender violence that derived from intentional homicides. Of the 76 judicial murders, 55 were perpetrated by the victim’s couple or ex -partner, and 21 by other known people.
Since 2019, the OGAT and YSTCC have managed to verify 267 femicides in Cuba, despite operating in a hostile environment characterized by the criminalization of feminist activism, restricted access to institutional sources and the absence of a legal typification of feminicide in Cuban legislation.
While the authorities use expressions such as “murder for gender reasons” or “extreme gender violence”, independent groups insist on the need to name the problem as feminicide and demand the creation of public registration protocols and an integral law against gender violence.
The Cuban State does not systematically publish annual statistics with detailed methodology or offer disaggregated data with intersective approach accessible to citizens. This institutional opacity remains an obstacle to dimensioning the true magnitude of the phenomenon.
