The trial against the alleged perpetrator of the kidnapping and murder of the young Cuban mother Yeniset Rojas Pérezmissing since March 18, 2022, in Ranchuelo, Villa Clara, ended this Friday, April 26, 2024 in that province, reported the feminist magazine Tense Wings. According to the court, the judge will hand down the sentence in three weeks.
The disappearance of Rojas Pérez, 33, became a public issue after his family reported what happened to the Police and asked for help on social networks. without being able to obtain information about the whereabouts of the young woman in almost a year.
In January 2023, the Cuban authorities They arrested a suspect of crime and, a few days later, the family said goodbye to Rojas Pérez through social networks.
“You can fly high now, Yeny dear! Beautiful girl, full of sunflowers,” wrote her sister-in-law Giselle Sobrino in a short message. “We’ll take care of whether the monster gets the death penalty. We love you with all our hearts,” he added.
Likewise, in January 2023, the feminist platform “I do believe you in Cuba” closed the issue and, on its social networks, wrote: “May this case serve to continue advocating for a specific protocol for the disappearances of women and girls!”.
According to Sobrino, the young woman disappeared after leaving her workplace and heading home to take her daughter to school in the afternoon. But she never arrived at the house. Since then her phone has not answered. “Her connection to WhatsApp ended in the morning,” she said.
Likewise, another of the young woman’s relatives in Cuba indicated in May 2022 that the case was no longer in charge of the Ranchuelo Police, where the disappearance occurred, but rather that was investigated by provincial authorities.
The Cuban playwright Yerandy Fleites, brother of Rojas Pérez, expressed his frustration with the authorities, who only two months after the events They barely offered news to the family about the progress of the investigation to find his whereabouts.
“It must be said, friends, that the highest levels of the police (the Ministry of the Interior, the National Directorate of the Police), the political (Council of State) and the judicial (Attorney General’s Office) are up to date thanks to a Report/Complaint/SOS that we have made, and It must be said that things have not changed at all.”he denounced.
“We could even say that they have gotten worse, that The silence is greater and the dialogue with the family is none: Right now, for example, we don’t even know what, who or who is facing the case,” he concluded.
This is not the only case of missing persons that remain in limbo in Cuba.
