havana/The independent platforms <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/the-platform-yo-si-te-creo-raises-to-50-confirmed-sexist-murders-in-cuba-in-2023/" title="The platform Yo Sí Te Creo raises to 50 confirmed sexist murders in Cuba in 2023″>Alas Tensas and Yo Sí Te Creo confirmed this Wednesday two new femicides in Cuba. The murders of Yucleidis Morales, in Santiago de Cuba, and Yadira Moreira, in Mayabeque, bring up to 39 crimes of sexual violence on the Island so far this year, according to the count 14 middle.
According to the report, Morales died on October 6 at his home at the hands of his partner in the town of Baltony, in the popular council of Los Reynaldos, in the town of Songo-La Maya.
Meanwhile, Moreira, 36 years old and mother of four, died on October 16 in her workplace (cafe) in Güines, where she was attacked by her ex-partner , who had left prison on leave. Yo Sí Te Creo and Alas Tensas said that many women in the country have been promised when the attackers were released from prison for a period of time.
With these two cases, four crimes of sexual violence have been reported on the Island in just two weeks. On October 9, the same platforms announced the case of an 18-year-old girl. The victim, identified as Liz Yohana Jimenez Moralesher husband was allegedly murdered by her partner, a teenager just 15 years old.
In the report this past Wednesday, the NGOs said that they are aware of five feminicide attempts in the country
With these two cases, four crimes of sexual violence have been reported on the Island in just two weeks. On October 9, the same platforms announced the case of an 18-year-old girl. The victim, identified as Liz Yohana Jimenez Moralesher husband was allegedly murdered by her partner, a teenager just 15 years old.
The attack against Jiménez Morales took place between the night of October 6 and the early morning of the 7th in the home of the victim, in the town of Mayajigua, in the town of Yaguajay, in the region of Sancti Spíritus.
Likewise, last Wednesday, feminism de Dagnis Alida Hernandez Milanés39 years old, in Santiago de Cuba. The incident took place on October 13 at the woman’s home, which is located in the San Pedrito area. According to observers, her ex-partner stabbed her, an attack witnessed by one of her two children, aged 11. The woman had previously complained to the Police against her attacker.
In this Wednesday’s report, the NGOs said that they are aware of five femicide attempts in the country, and indicated that they are investigating six other possible cases in Las Tunas, Camagüey, Guantánamo, Santiago de Cuba and two in Matanzas.
Platforms and independent media are the ones who monitor femicides in the country due to the lack of information from the government. It is assumed that the actual number of cases It is much older.
Independent platforms and media are the ones that keep records of femicides in the country due to lack of government information
According to a count by the Alas Tensas Observatory, 238 cases were registered in Cuba from 2019 to July 2024.
The Cuban Observatory of Gender Equality, in charge of the National Office of Statistics and Information (Onei), published on August 2 that 110 femicide trials took place in the country last year – without specifying when they took place -, six times more than in 2022, when 18 were counted.
At the end of July this year, the Government, faced with a phenomenon that is getting worse on the Island, agreed to create a national system for “recording, attention, follow-up and investigation” of sexual violence on the Island, with results uncertain so far. At that time, the attorney general, Yamila Peña Ojeda, explained that 75% of cases of sexual violence occurred in the home, that 72% of the victims are between 25 and 59 years old, to 84% of the perpetrators were partners. or was a partner, and 31% had a criminal record of violent acts.
