Additionally, in 2025, five attempted feminicides and the murder of a man for gender reasons were reported.
MIAMI, United States. – The magazine’s Gender Observatory Tense Wings (OGAT) and the YoSíTeCreo platform in Cuba (YSTCC) verified two new femicides that occurred in Havana and Granma and updated their record to 35 sexist crimes in the country, which occurred since January.
According to the OGAT and YSTCCthe Cuban Liudmila Álvarez Coll was murdered by her partner on October 6 in her home, in La Marina, Manzanillo municipality (Granma). “Clear information is needed from the authorities about the whereabouts of the aggressor,” the two organizations indicated.
In addition, they stated that the victim leaves a daughter orphaned.
One day before, on October 5, Noralis Estenoz died at the hands of her ex-partner and in her own home, in the Versalles neighborhood, La Lisa municipality (Havana). In this case, the OGAT and YSTCC demanded official actions to capture the attacker: “We demand that the authorities make a statement regarding the capture of the attacker, who fled.” The organizations also requested citizen collaboration: “Citizen support is needed to complete the information about this case, especially if there are children who survive Noralis.”
The two platforms stressed that these events were initially documented by “the media, citizens and activists” and were verified with community sources through the joint effort of OGAT and YSTCC.
In their information court until this Wednesday, the two organizations count 35 femicides, the murder of a man for reasons of gender, five attempted feminicides and three cases that require access to police investigation. Likewise, they stated that they are investigating three more events: one in Santiago de Cuba, one in Villa Clara and one in Camagüey.
At the beginning of last July, the Cuban Observatory on Gender Equality (OCIG, state) reported that the judicial processes concluded in 2024 accounted for a total of 76 Cuban women aged 15 or older murdered for reasons of gender. (These are not strictly the victims of femicides that occurred in 2024 on the Island, but only those involved in judicial processes concluded that year and collected by the Complementary Statistical Information Subsystem of the Supreme People’s Court).
Although the official OCIG report avoided using the term “feminicide”, the statistic corresponds, according to its definitions, to cases of extreme gender violence that resulted in intentional homicides. Of the 76 judicialized murders, 55 were perpetrated by the victim’s partner or ex-partner, and 21 by other known people.
Since 2019, the OGAT and YSTCC They have verified at least 300 femicides in Cubadespite operating in a hostile environment characterized by the criminalization of feminist activism, restricted access to institutional sources and the lack of a legal classification 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 a comprehensive law against gender violence.
The Cuban State does not systematically publish annual statistics with detailed methodology nor does it offer disaggregated data with an intersectional approach accessible to citizens. This institutional opacity continues to be an obstacle to measuring the true magnitude of the phenomenon.
