The mother of the family Lisandra Fernández, 34, died at the hands of her husband this Thursday in the city of Las Tunas, the observatories denounced Tense Wings and Yo SíTeCreo in Cuba this Friday. With the death of Fernández, there are four femicides in October and 30 cases throughout 2022.
“The aggressor was her husband, who later committed suicide,” the platforms indicate in a publication on Facebook without giving details of how the victim died. “Our condolences reach their children and other relatives,” they add.
The observatories also point out that they have been notified of “another three possible femicides” through their complaint channels, for which they requested information on violent acts against women that occurred in Camagüey and Sancti Spíritus.
“A new rise in femicide alerts is being reported, which speaks to the seriousness of this problem in Cuba,” they warn.
In recent days, Santiago de Cuba was the scene of two femicides, the victims are Yadira Sueiro Pérez, 22, and Eudelvis Leyva Rivera, 19.
“A new rise in femicide alerts is being reported, which speaks to the seriousness of this problem in Cuba”
Sueiro Pérez was attacked by her former partner with a machete in the town of Corralón, in the municipality of Songo La Maya. Although the young woman was taken to an emergency medical care center, she died from the severity of her injuries. While Leyva Rivera’s body was found near the Hermanos Díaz oil refinery, located at kilometer seven and a half of the Mar Verde highway, and according to a family source, the woman “was raped, stabbed seven times and had her throat slit.” and it is not known who is the author of the facts.
These cases are added to the list of femicides not accounted for by the Cuban authorities, while Yo SíTeCreo reported seven frustrated assassination attempts and thirty murders that have come to light through complaints on social networks.
Although the Government recognizes gender-based violence in the Constitution and the recently approved Family Code, in Cuba femicide is not classified as a crime or aggravating circumstance in the Penal Code, a situation repeatedly denounced by independent feminist associations.
The most recent official data dates back to the 2016 National Survey on Gender Equality, which revealed that 26.7% of Cuban women between the ages of 15 and 74 claimed to have suffered some type of violence in their partner relationship in the past few years. twelve months prior to the study and that only 3.7% of those attacked requested institutional help.
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