MADRID, Spain.- A new feminicide in Cuba has shocked the residents of Guantánamo, the province where the crime occurred. The victim was identified as Iliana Martínez.
“They killed my younger sister Iliana Martínez,” he said this Sunday night Obersy War on the social network Facebook.
According to sources close to the journalist Alberto Arego, the murder occurred in the San Gregorio neighborhood, between 13 and 14 Sur.
“The man hanged himself after he killed her. I live quite close, but when I went they were already taking away the bodies. It was around 7:00 pm and they were taken away at 9:00 or so. It was there full of people,” the source told Arego.
The reporter shared a video where a large number of people can be seen around the crime scene.
If this murder is confirmed, the number of femicides registered in Cuba so far this year would increase to 33. Currently, in the 15 provinces of the country, at least one femicide has been reported this year.
Most of the murdered women lost their lives at the hands of men they knew and who had been or were their partners.
Given the wave of femicides in the country and the state of defenselessness in which women find themselves, feminist platforms they keep asking the regime —without obtaining a response— a series of demands that protect women from sexist violence.
Among these demands are the definition of the specific crime of femi(ni)cide; Creation of shelters and rescue systems for women and their children in danger; Legalization of activism; and a Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence.
From 2019 to the present, the feminist platform YoSíTeCreo in Cuba has registered more than 130 femicides in the country, which is barely an underreporting, since the State does not publish the official figures of these crimes.
