Cuban feminist platforms denounced the murders of two women on the Island, one of them in the municipality of Caibarién, Villa Clara, and the other in the municipality of Manzanillo, in the province of Granma.
Through a statement shared on social networks, the platform I do believe you in Cuba identified one of the victims as Lizandra Pérez, a 35-year-old young mother, who was murdered in her home.
The woman was allegedly murdered by her partner with a knife. The worst thing about the matter is that the crime would have been committed in front of her son, when they returned from a party last Sunday, October 15.
According to a neighbor, who gave her testimony anonymously to the media CubaNet, the man had a history of violence, having abused the victim and other women in the past. After committing the heinous crime, he would have turned himself in to the authorities of Villa Clara.
For its part, the official Fuerza del Pueblo profile shared more details of the murder, identifying the attacker with the name Randel.
“Inside the house they begin to argue and RANDEL hits her a few times, her youngest child and his mother try to intercede, and RANDEL pushes them, so Lizandra tries to run away to ask for help and in that her husband RANDEL (a person violent and aggressive) takes a knife from the house and stabs him several times, causing his death,” the Facebook post states.
Similarly, Yo Sí Te Creo in Cuba confirmed the feminicide of Bárbara Rodríguez Guerra, a teacher from Manzanillo who had been murdered on September 20.
In previous days, Feminist organizations on the Island requested help to confirm if the teacher’s death had been a gender crime.something that was suspected due to the level of violence with which it was committed.
Now, the platform has managed to confirm that it was a femicide, pointing out that the teacher’s ex-partner would have been responsible for her death. Bárbara Rodríguez left behind two minor daughters.
With these two crimes, the count of femicides registered in Cuba since the beginning of 2023 rises to 65, a number that is nowhere close to doubling the 36 that occurred last year.
It is important to note that feminist platforms consider that these numbers could be much higher, but that the lack of transparency on the part of the Castro authorities makes it almost impossible to keep an accurate record of these crimes.
For this reason, the community’s help has been requested on countless occasions, since citizen complaints are one of the few ways in which organizations in favor of women’s rights on the Island can confirm these types of crimes throughout from the country.
