SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The platform feminist I do believe in you Cuba and the Gender Observatory of the magazine Tense Wings (OGAT) confirmed this Wednesday the murders of two women, one from Santiago de Cuba and the other from Mayabeque.
Yucleidis (Cuca) Morales died at the hands of her partner on approximately October 6, 2024. She was murdered in her own home, in the town of Baltony, of the Los Reynaldo popular council, in the Songo-La Maya municipality, in Santiago de Cuba .
Previously, the reporter Yosmany Mayeta He had specified that the victim was attacked with a knife. In the comments to her publication, several people close to the young woman indicated that her partner had psychiatric conditions.
Morales was in charge of caring for his grandmother, the feminist platforms said, without providing more details.
They also confirmed the feminicide of Yadira Moreira Pernas, 36 years old, who died on October 16 at her workplace (a cafeteria at kilometer 50) in Güines, Mayabeque.
There it was attackfor his ex-partner, who had been released from the penitentiary where he was serving his sentence.
Four children survive her, all minors. “Our condolences go to the four children who survive her, all minors and with their father living outside of Cuba, other family members and close people, especially her work group,” the observatories wrote.
In their post they repudiated the lack of a approach of gender in Cuban prisons, which causes the lack of protection of women, girls, boys and adolescents. “There are many femicides committed during the prison term of the aggressors,” they warned.
Last year, a recluse who was passing murdered his ex-partner with a knife and attacked the ex-mother-in-law in the Cerro municipality.
At the beginning of this year, Diana Rosa Cervantes Mejías, a 29-year-old girl, was murdered by her partner in the city of Camagüey. He feminicide He was out on bail for assaulting another person.
According to the sub-registration of both observatories, as of October 23, 2024, 42 femicides have been confirmed throughout the Island, as well as five attempted feminicides, six cases that require access to police investigation and two murders of men for reasons of gender.
Both platforms are also currently investigating one case in Las Tunas, two in Matanzas, one in Camagüey, one in Guantánamo and another in Holguín.
At the beginning of August, the island’s regime revealed that a total of 110 women had been murdered at the hands of their partners or ex-partners throughout 2023. The figure, which was released by the Cuban Observatory on Gender Equality (state), only includes those cases that were tried during the last year and in which the victim was over 15 years old.
According to the agency EFEthe rate of femicides on the Island (although not exhaustive) is the sixth highest in all of Latin America and the Caribbean compared to the records of sexist murders from the Gender Equality Observatory of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ( ECLAC) of 2022.
The visibility of cases of sexist violence in independent media and on social networks led the Government to propose an Interoperable Administrative Registry, “that allows for real-time information on the violent deaths of women and girls for reasons of gender”.
However, feminist organizations consider that this measure is insufficient and that the Government must take concrete actions to prevent and punish sexist violence.
