Madrid, Spain.- Yosítecreo independent platforms in Cuba (YSTCC) and the Gender Observatory of Tense wings (OGAT) They confirmed a new feminicide on Thursday In Cuba, with which the number of cases verified so that it goes from 2025. The victim was identified as Yunisleidy (Yuni) López Milián, 40, killed by his partner on March 27 in the town of Guayos, municipality of Cabaiguán, province of Sancti Spíritus.
According to the information shared by both groups on social networks, the aggressor tried to cover up the crime denouncing on his own the victim’s disappearance before the Revolutionary National Police (PNR). In addition, he participated in the searches organized by relatives and neighbors during the week in which López Milián was in an unknown whereabouts.
The victim’s body was found in a pit inside his own home, during a police operation in which firefighters also intervened, amid the shock of the residents of the place. The aggressor and the victim had a five -year -old daughter.
“We regret a new feminicide in Cuba and warn about 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,” the organizations denounced.
Both YSTCC and OGAT questioned the media treatment of the case by the Radio Sancti Spíritus state broadcasterwhich described it as a “passionate crime”, a term that they consider “incorrect and even justification”, and inappropriate when it comes to femicide.
Feminist organizations expressed their condolences to relatives and relatives of the victim. In addition, they currently investigate four new alerts of possible femicides in the provinces of Artemis, Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba and Havana.
55 femicide in 2024
At the close of 2024, YSTCC and the OGAT registered 55 femicides throughout the country, as well as several attempts at femicide, six cases in which police investigations and two murders of men were not accessible for gender reasons.
Both groups have reiterated the need for the Cuban government to declare a “state of emergency for gender violence” and promulgate a comprehensive law that effectively face sexist violence. “It is imperative that concrete measures are taken to protect women and prevent more femicides,” they insist.
A registration without public access
This week, the Cuban authorities announced the creation of a Administrative Registry computerized on femicides, as part of government actions to face gender violence. However, according to the Official Gazette Granmasaid registry will not be public.
Among the sanctions contemplated in the current legislation are the “prohibition of approach” of the aggressor, the “removal of guardianship” in certain cases and the “obligation to receive psychological treatment.” The hardening of penalties in cases of gender violence is also expected, and the victim can be given from the complaint if it is shown that it acted under coercion.
However, the official article does not address the historical sub -registration of femicides in Cuba, nor the state’s refusal to officially recognize the term for years. Nor does he mention the sustained work of independent platforms such as YSTCC and the OGAT, which, given the lack of transparent official data, have been responsible for documenting these crimes on their own.
