Feminist platforms announced the discovery of the body of a Cuban residing in the United States, who was found dead inside her apartment in the city of Santiago de Cuba.
YoSíTeCreo in Cuba (YSTCC) and the Alas Tensas Gender Observatory (OGAT) identified the victim as Elba Yipsi Pérez Álvarez, 49 years oldand asked the community for more information about the circumstances of the woman’s death.
The victim was found dead inside a house in the José Martí District, last Sunday June 11although it has not been until now that the incident has been made known through the aforementioned gender platforms, which did not specify whether the body was found with signs of violence.
The aforementioned sources also requested information on the death of another woman in the province of Santiago. In that case, they indicated that the victim was murdered in Contramaestre municipality.
At the close of this note there is no evidence that official media have reported on either of the two deaths referred to by the feminist platforms.
Femicides do not give truce in Cuba
This same Tuesday, the murder of another young Cuban woman, the mother of a four-year-old boy, who she was murdered in front of her son by her ex-partner in the province of Matanzas, according to what was announced Cubanet citing a familiar source.
In this case, the victim, identified as Yunisleive Fernandezhad denounced the attacker on June 19 for serious injuries at the Torriente police station, in Jagüey Grande, just four days before she was murdered, on the 23rd.
According to a cousin of the young woman in statements to the aforementioned outlet, the attacker was not arrested and upon learning of the complaint, the subject threatened the woman and the minor with death. Finally, on June 23, he fulfilled his threat and murdered Yunisleive with a knife in front of her son and the mother of the deceased. The man also tried to harm the minor, but the young woman’s mother prevented him.
Cuba is close to fifty confirmed femicides this year, while feminist platforms work on the confirmation and verification of new cases.
The total number of femicides recorded in Cuba so far in 2023 already far exceeds the total of 2022, when 36 were confirmed. However, you must take into account that in any case it is an underreporting, since the Cuban government does not disseminates official figures on sexist violence.
