The Gender Observatory of the independent magazine Tense Wings and the Yo Sí Te Creo platform in Cuba confirmed a new feminicide on the Island, number 15 so far in 2024as well as two attempts at sexist crimes.
In accordance with these initiatives of independent civil society, on March 25 Yudeisi Pedroza, 45, was murdered in her home in Sibanicú, Camagüeyby his ex-partner.
This case was verified by activists on the ground, he indicated Tense Wings in https://twitter.com/AlasTensas/status/1773382872218444247in a note in which he regretted the incident and sent his condolences to the victim’s two children, one of them a minor, as well as their families.
“We continue to warn about extreme violence against women’s bodies”the note indicated, before summarizing that, to date, in addition to the 15 confirmed sexist murders and the two attempted feminicides, there are five more cases of alleged crimes of that nature whose confirmation requires access to the police investigation, something that the authorities never provide to civil society groups.
Of the latter, one corresponds to the death of an elderly woman from Esperanza, Villa Clara; another two in Havana and two more in Santiago de Cuba.
“We are investigating an alert in Manzanillo, one in Ciego de Ávila, two in Havana and one in Artemisa,” the note added.
On March 7, the observatories presented their report for 2023 and confirmed that There were 89 femicides verified last year in Cuba. Although this is an under-record, the figure exceeded double those verified in 2022, which closed with 32.
The seriousness of the phenomenon of femicides in Cuba is demonstrated when the figures left on the Island in 2023 and those left in Spain are compared. In that country, with almost 50 million inhabitants, compared to Cuba’s 11 million, official statistics from last year reflect 105 femicides and other murders of women committed by men, only 16 more than those verified on the Island by independent platforms. , who do not have State resources and whose work is criminalized.
When speaking at the closing of the XI Congress of the ruling Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), Miguel Díaz-Canel exhibited a increase in sentences for sexist murders in 2023 regarding 2022 in Cuba as an alleged effective response of the authorities to the problem.
However, The ruler denied the existence of femicides in Cuba and accused “the enemies of the Revolution” of using and manipulating “conveniently and biased figures.”
