The sub -agreed of mortal macho crimes on the island, so far this year, rises to 30.
Miami, United States. – The magazine’s gender observatory Tense wings (OGAT) and the Victims Support Platform of Gender Violence Yosítecreo in Cuba (YSTCC) They confirmed three new feminicides on the island and updated their sub -registration to 30 muskist mortal crimes so far this year.
“We regret three new femicides in Cuba, with the tendency to greater violence against women’s bodies, which is demonstrated with aggravating in a growing number of cases,” both non -governmental organizations said.
The two NGOs verified the death of Damaris Ricardo Martínez, 48, took place on August 28 at his home in the municipality of Cueto, in Holguin. “[La víctima] She was brutally attacked by her partner, who later took her life, ”the organizations said.
They also regretted feminicide on August 25, Dayli Villa Ortiz, 24, “who died at the hands of his partner in his home in Carlos Rojas, Matanzas.” “We denounce that these terrible events happened in front of one of Dayli’s daughters, which we hope will receive the specialized attention it needs.”
The third confirmed case corresponds to Yolennis Rojas Rojas, 32, who died “at the hands of his ex -partner at the home he left in the Corojal de la Palma neighborhood, in Rafael Freyre, Holguín”. “The painful events happened on July 29 and reveal the urgency of specialized protection systems that support women when leaving violent homes. Yolennis tried and received the direct support of his father, who was injured and almost dies.” The OGAT and YSTCC sent their condolences “to the two minor children who survive her, family and other people close.”
Until Wednesday, both observatories have confirmed, in addition to 30 feminicides so far from 2025, the murder of men for gender reasons and three attempts at femicide. Currently they also investigate alerts of macho crimes in Santiago de Cuba, Villa Clara and Camagüey.
Machist crimes verified in Cuba so far from 2025 reach 30
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.
