MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban feminist platform YoSíTeCreo in Cuba confirmed this Wednesday the discovery of the body of the 18-year-old Yoilén Acosta Torriente, who disappeared in the municipality of Cruces, Cienfuegos, on January 29.
“We closed the disappearance alert for Yoilén Acosta Torriente, after her body was found on January 31. The 18-year-old girl was last seen on January 29, around 8:00 p.m., in her town of Cruces de ella, in Cienfuegos, ”the feminist platform specified on its social networks.
Likewise, YoSíTeCreo specified that the available data was not sufficient to determine whether or not the case was a femicide.
“Our condolences reach his family and thanks to all the people who supported his search,” the group of feminist activists concluded.
This very Wednesday, YoSíTeCreo in Cuba confirmed the femicide of Yailanis Lázara Pérez Camacho, 36 years old and resident of the city of Matanzas.
The crime against the young woman, the platform pointed out, shocked Matanzas “from the alert of her disappearance made by her family on social networks on January 28 until the discovery of her body on January 30.”
“This case is under police investigation but the disappearance and characteristics of the attacks indicate feminicide. Our condolences reach her mother, who suffers the cruel loss of her only daughter, and other relatives, ”he published. I do believe you in Cuba.
The feminist platform also reiterated its “demand for effective mechanisms to prevent gender violence, so as not to reach its extreme manifestation, which is irreparable. Early warnings of disappearances are urgently needed, to help avoid these extreme violent outcomes”, concludes the publication of the group of feminist activists.
This case constitutes the second femicide registered on the Island only in the first month of 2023.
On January 5, a police officer shot his partner to death in Guantanamo, and marked the first femicide known on the Island in the year just begun.
In the first week of January, the Gender Observatory (OGAT) of the feminist magazine tautwings confirmed 34 femicides occurred in Cuba throughout 2022.
According to the magazine and its observatory, the provinces with the highest number of cases were Havana, with eight femicides; and Camagüey and Matanzas, with five each.
“Carrying out a complete record of the deaths of women due to sexist violence entails numerous difficulties and risks, because the island’s regime has been in charge of criminalizing all kinds of political activism, and also inhibits any possible citizen complaint,” he lamented. taut wingsone of the three independent platforms that, along with YoSíTeCreo in Cuba and the Cuban Women’s Network, counts sexist crimes on the island.
“We cannot fail to thank the courage of families, neighbors and citizens, who have denounced, on their social networks or through private means, the cases of femicides that have occurred in their respective communities,” added the post on Twitter.
“Let’s remember that accounting for sexist violence helps us to propose public policies that help eradicate it. Naming the femicides is doing justice, ‘the most basic exercise of reparation with all the victims of sexist violence,’” she declared.
