Recent Femicides in Cuba: Updates on Gender Violence Cases in Guanabacoa and Santiago de Cuba

2023-06-23 14:30:37

CubitaNOW Newsroom ~ Friday, June 23, 2023

A Cuban mother was assassinated the previous week by her ex-partner in Guanabacoa, a municipality in the province of Havana.

According to the report by the Cuban Feminist Magazine Alas Tensas, the victim’s name was Nelbys Leyva, she was 37 years old, and she was killed on June 16.

The deceased is survived by a daughter, indicates the platform that argued that “this femicide has been verified by the joint work of the independent observatories of the Observatory of Alas Tensas and the Femicide Observatory of Yo Sí Te Creo in Cuba.

“Our condolences reach the daughter who survives her, her relatives and other close friends,” said the platform, while updating that the underreporting of femicides until June 23 is 45 cases, with two attempted feminicides and two other cases. who needs access to the police investigation.

“We are also working on an alert in Santiago de Cuba, another in Baire, one in Trinidad, another in Zulueta and a new one in Guanabacoa,” said Alas Tensas, who called on the community to denounce any case of extreme gender violence they have. knowledge.

This week a young Cuban woman identified as Yanet Mejías González, 24, was assassinated in Santiago de Cuba.

A source from the Department of Statistics of the Gustavo Machín Psychiatric Hospital, where the young woman worked, told on condition of anonymity Marti Newsthat the aggressor was allegedly his ex-partner.

“He is my cousin. He is in jail, the first day he turned himself in. He is like 40 or 41 years old. A neighbor from the neighborhood told her: ‘so-and-so is saying that he is going to kill you’, and she replied: ‘I have to die of something’. If he had gone to the police, he might have avoided the tragedy, because they would have caught him, since he was in prison, “Mirielis Garbán León, a friend of the victim and cousin of the perpetrator, told the aforementioned outlet.

“No one has the right to take anyone’s life, but when he left her, they had several family problems, with his mother and father, which I, as a woman, the man who touches my mother, ended. From that moment on, I shouldn’t have continued with him anymore,” the source said.

“There were three of them, two sisters and a boy, and she was the youngest in the house, the most spoiled, the only one who lived with her mother,” she argued.

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