Miami:- Melissa Castillo, a young mother who lived with her two children in the micro III cast, popularly known as “El Salao”, in Santiago de Cuba She was killed This Wednesday on the island.
The aggressor, identified as his ex -partner and father of children, is a man from the province of Guantanamo. The news was initially released by The journalist Yosmany Mayeta on his Facebook page and corroborated by Cubanet with residents of the area.
This new femicide case occurs in the midst of the recent announcements of the Cuban authorities about the Creation of a record computerized administrative of femicide. This system, according to official media, seeks to collect data and support the prevention of sexist violence on the island. However, the registry will not be publicly accessible, which has generated concern between activists and independent organizations that demand transparency to dimension the magnitude of the problem.
According to an article published in Granma On April 7, the registration will allow to provide information to state and government institutions, as well as the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), to identify risk patterns, take prevention measures and repair victims. The initiative is being developed by a multidisciplinary group composed of the Attorney General’s Office, the Ministry of Interior, the Popular Supreme Court and the University of Computer Sciences (ICU).
However, observers warn that the lack of citizen access to this data limits the independent monitoring capacity and social control over a phenomenon that, according to feminist organizations, continues to grow in the country.
The murder of Melissa Castillo adds to a painful list of femicides that occurred in Cuba in recent months, which with this crime would amount to 12 women murdered, in a context where complaints from macho violence are often neglected and the institutional protection mechanisms are insufficient to avoid tragedies like this.
