Havana/The list of independently verified femicides in 2024 in Cuba was expanded this Friday to 17 cases. The victim is María Emilia Sabigne Borjas, 38 years old and resident in the city of Santiago de Cuba. The news was spread by journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, who claims that she knew Sabigne. Independent observatories have not yet commented on the case.
As Mayeta published on her social networks, the woman from Santiago was attacked last Thursday “in the middle of a public street” allegedly by her ex-partner and father of one of her children. Sabigne was accompanied at that time by her current partner and one of her minors, who witnessed when the aggressor stabbed her in the neck at the Rotonda bus stop, on Carretera del Morro.
The reporter explains that the woman had previously reported her ex-partner, “but the authorities did nothing about it.” He added that Sabigne was transferred to the Joaquín Castillo Duany military hospital and she died this Friday morning due to cardiorespiratory arrest, after undergoing surgery for the injuries suffered in the attack.
Sabigne is the fourth woman victim of sexist violence in Santiago de Cuba this year according to the ’14ymedio’ registry
Sabigne is the fourth woman victim of sexist violence in Santiago de Cuba this year according to the registry. 14ymedio. On April 17, Ariannis Torres Tamayo, 38, died in the town of Chivirico, municipality of Guamá.
According to Mayeta, who then shared information about the victim, Torres was attacked by her ex-partner in the middle of the street, around 2:00 in the afternoon. The alleged murderer worked in a Acopio car and she was on a motorcycle. The man got off her and threw a knife at her with which he then slit her throat. Mayeta also reported that, after attacking her, Torres managed to run in search of help to the La Jabá store, in the La Calabaza neighborhood, where there was a crowd of people. However, the woman, a mother of three children, died at the scene.
A month earlier, on March 2, 22-year-old nurse Samantha Heredia was murdered. The alleged aggressor was her husband, who worked as a doctor alongside Heredia at the Juan Bruno Zayas Clinical Surgical Hospital in the eastern city. According to a Mayeta source, the young woman was “beaten and then beaten” and her partner surrendered to the Police.
In February, also in Santiago de Cuba, the death of Yanelis Coca, 40 years old, in a arrive and put known as La Conejera from the San Andrés neighborhood, in the town of El Caney. The victim was allegedly attacked with an ax by her ex-husband, who committed suicide after killing her.
In 2023, there were 87 cases of femicides recorded by independent platforms and media, a figure that contradicts the statements of the Cuban Government, which assures that sexist violence has few cases on the Island. The regime did recognize, however, that more than 16,000 Cuban women and girls live in situations of violence.
