Misladis Carmenates Hidalgo, about 43 years old, was murdered by her partner on January 6 at her residence located in the Albaisa neighborhood, on the outskirts of the city of Camagüey. “Eleven stab wounds, in addition to the slaughter, the murderer did to the woman, before escaping”, reported this friday the independent newspaper The Time of Cuba.
The victim, who was buried yesterday in the town of Cuatro Caminos, in the Camagüey municipality of Najasa where she is from, is survived by three children as a result of previous relationships, one of them a minor.
Hours after the crime, Carmenates’ couple, known as Manduco, with the last name Oropesa and ten years her junior, surrendered to a police unit in Najasa, where he resides. The detainee was transferred a few hours later to another station in the provincial capital.
“The crime was also the end of a turbulent relationship of encounters and disagreements, aggravated by frequent fights and exaggerated consumption of alcohol,” relatives of the victim told The Time of Cuba, and although for the moment “the direct causes” of the murder are unknown.
“The crime was also the closure of a turbulent relationship of encounters and disagreements, aggravated by frequent fights and exaggerated alcohol consumption”
According to the independent media, three women from the municipality of Najasa, with a population of just 16,000 inhabitants, have been victims of crimes of sexist violence. The previous one was the double stabbing murder of Zaily Téllez and her daughter at the hands of the owner of the apartment in which they lived, “without the causes being officially disclosed so far.” In that area of the center of the country, “events of daily violence against women by their partners are not rare or secret.”
The first registered femicide this year took place in Villa Clara. A mother of two grown children. Maylén Guerra García, worked as a custodian at the Chiquitico Fabregat sugar refinery in Remedios and was murdered by her partner on January 2, according to the magazine Tense Wings.
At the beginning of December, the publication also disclosed the femicide of Yoanka, a woman who “was in her 40s and had three daughters in her care.” They specified that she was a neighbor of the Ciudamar neighborhood, in San Miguel del Padrón, and that the aggressor was her partner. Tense Wings She then demanded that the Federation of Cuban Women and the authorities worry “about this silent pandemic” that claimed the lives of thirty women in 2021.
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