Aniuska Hernández Ginard, a 49-year-old Cuban resident in Guantánamo, was murdered last Tuesday “at the hands of an acquaintance with a criminal record for sexist violence,” denounced the gender violence observatories of the independent platform Yo Sí Te Creo in Cuba and the feminist magazine Tense Wings (OGAT).
This crime is the 23rd feminicide reported in Cuba so far in 2024.
According to the complaint, so far The only verified link between the victim and the perpetrator is that they were neighbors.“but we continue investigating in search of the best classification of this feminicide.”
“We focus on the situation of Aniuska’s seven-year-old daughter, who witnessed the attack against her mother in her home. We warn that At the time of writing this post, the aggressor was on the run.”added the independent organizations.
Likewise, civil society groups, which do their work thanks to the support of volunteers within the Island, sent their condolences to “the three daughters, two of them minors, who survive Aliuska, her husband and other relatives and close people, as well as the community where they live.
The under-registration of both groups accounts for 23 femicides and three attempted femicides to date.as well as six cases that need access to the police investigation to elucidate the motives for the crime.
Of the latter, one corresponds to an unidentified older adult from Villa Clara; three to women from Havana; two others from Santiago de Cuba, plus the murder of a man “for gender reasons.”
Apart from the above, the groups say they are investigating cases in Havana, Artemisa, Camagüey and Santiago de Cuba, at a rate of one, respectively.
Of the 89 fatalities verified in 2023 by both independent groups, at least nine had reported their attackersas DIARIO DE CUBA showed in an analysis.
Recently, the Villa Clara Prosecutor’s Office requested a life sentence for the alleged perpetrator of the death of the Cuban Yeniset Pérez Rojas, a 2022 case that became a public issue after her family reported the disappearance of the young woman from 33 years old to the Police and asked for help on social networks. Almost a year later it was possible to obtain information about the whereabouts of the young woman.
In January 2023, Cuban authorities arrested the main suspect in the crime and, a few days later, the family said goodbye to Rojas Pérez through social networks.
