The confirmation in less than a week of the murders of Milsa, in Granma, and of María Cristina Rodríguez Rodríguez, in Santiago de Cuba, brings the number of femicides on the island to 37 so far this year.
The latter, 43, was found lifeless in the El Manguito neighborhood, located in the Songo La Maya municipality of Santiago, last Friday, as confirmed CubaNet, after his family had reported the disappearance to the Police. His body was abandoned in a river near his house.
“She was found dead, a crazy criminal killed her,” a neighbor told the independent media, who explained that the victim died of “mechanical suffocation” and suffered sexual abuse. “The murderer is already in prison,” according to the same source
On the other hand, the violent death of Milsa was reported this Thursday by journalist Alberto Arego and perpetrated on June 2 in the town of Mabay, on the outskirts of the Bayamo municipality, Granma.
Femicides registered in the first five months of the year have already exceeded the 34 violent acts reported in all of 2022
The journalist confirmed, with two sources on condition of anonymity, that the alleged murderer was his ex-partner, with whom he had been separated for five months because he beat her. According to the account of one of her witnesses, the 46-year-old woman was going to get a manicure at the house of the niece of her former life partner, when she attacked her with a knife in front of several people. .
“He stabbed her from behind and from the front, which caused her death from severe organ damage,” a source said. Another witness collected by Arego said the as-yet-unidentified man had previously served a “sanction” because he attacked another couple.
The victim is survived by two children, who, according to witnesses, had filed a complaint with the Police for mistreatment. However, they denounced, the authorities “did nothing about it.” This new case of femicide has not yet been confirmed by the independent platforms Alas Tensas and Yo Sí Te Creo, which keep records in the absence of official data.
These organizations published this Thursday in their networks that they are studying the case of Yaiden Bolaños Morales, murdered in El Naranjal, in the city of Matanzas. “After contrasting six primary sources, press reports and doing a review of social networks,” they say, “it does not have all the elements to determine if it was a femicide” and it remains, for the moment “in the category of ‘It is You need access to the police investigation.'”
As they explain, “the UN emphasizes that a femicide is not only about the murder of a woman by a partner or ex-partner, but also for social and cultural reasons and unequal power relations.” For this reason, the victim is classified into eight categories, “that can coexist in the same case”, including having previously suffered violence, or sexual violence before or after death, being in a situation of illegal exploitation, having been kidnapped or kidnapped or known if the aggressor was known to have “hatred and prejudice” towards her.
May was one of the bloodiest months in Cuba, with at least six femicides. The last one was confirmed this Wednesday by the platform Yo Sí Te Creo in Cuba (YSTC), who reported the violent death of Nayibis on May 30 in the rural town of Las Nuevas, in La Sierpe, Sancti Spíritus.
The UN emphasizes that a feminicide is not only about the murder of a woman by a partner or ex-partner, but also for social and cultural reasons and unequal power relations.
This case was also reported by Alberto Arego, who said that Nayibis was a “primary school teacher in the town of Las Nuevas” and mother of two children, one 17 years old and the other 13 or 14. According to testimonies, the femicide , from whom he had separated months ago, had ingested alcoholic beverages the day he committed the crime.
This week it was also confirmed the murder of Danila Rivero García in Bartle, Las Tunas, on May 27, as well as Iliana Martínez, last Sunday in Guantanamo.
In this sense, the Alas Tensas platform made a third call for the Cuban government to “declare a state of emergency due to gender violence.” In a proclamation, signed by several independent organizations, he pointed out that it is necessary because “numerous acts of extreme violence have been reported in a short space of time.”
The femicides registered in the first five months of the year have already exceeded the 34 violent acts reported in all of 2022. February has been the deadliest month, with 11 deaths from sexist violence.
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