The feminist platformI do believe you in Cuba declared that this March 8 there is “nothing to celebrate” in a country where 34 events occurredfemicides in 2021 and four so far this year.
The support and accompaniment group for people in situations of sexist violence stated this Tuesday on its Facebook profile that among the reasons why this “International Women's Day” on the island is not to celebrate, the 76 women who remain in detention for political reasons, the increase and legitimization of police violence, in addition to the increase in maternal mortality and early pregnancy.
Likewise, she recalled that in Cuba there are no shelters or specific protocols for victims of gender violence and limited statistics on women's problems, in addition to the growing criminalization of feminist activism.
Other problems that they pointed out for not considering this day of celebration dealt with the structural exclusion of trans, queer, and non-binary people, in addition to the institutional silence on the program against racial discrimination and the precariousness of life due to the economic and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The platform also recalled among its points the increase in the criminalization of subsistence and political dissent and how the Family Code project on the island has been brought to a plebiscite, so that the majority approves the rights of the minority, in addition to that a new Penal Code is being prepared that violates fundamental rights.
Nor in the country, they said, is there a date for the approval of a Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence in Cuba.
The publication of the feminist platform also disseminates the list of cases of femicides that occurred during the last year, a period in which 34 Cuban women were murdered because of their status as women.
According to the magazine's Gender Violence ObservatoryTense Wings, in 2021 it happened at leasta feminicide every 10 days, a frequency that represented an increase in this phenomenon compared to 2020.
According to this Observatory,In 2020, 28 femicides were recorded, plus 4 cases of vicarious femicides, for a total of 32.
The document ensures that “the context of vulnerability in which Cuban women find themselves favors this cruel expression of gender violence to have greater space in society.”
The most recent case of femicide What happened on the island came to light at the end of February, when it was learned that Yaite Balmaceda Cano, a 27-year-old Cuban woman living in the Río Cauto municipality, in the Granma province, was murdered on Saturday, February 19, by a man whose harassment she already He had reported it to the police.
“Yaite lived near where I live,A few months and days before being murdered, she had been the victim of beatings and threats by the young man who murdered her.The Río Cauto police were aware of this, the person who murdered her recently tried to rape a young woman from the same neighborhood and the police were aware of this incident,” Alexander Verdecia Rodríguez, UNPACU coordinator in the aforementioned confirmed on social networks. Granma municipality, who reported the feminicide.
Also in the first weeks of 2022At least three other femicides were reported in Cuba. The first occurred in the province of Villa Clara, where a Cuban woman wasmurdered by her partner in the early morning of January 2, in the Chiquitico Fabregat batey, belonging to the municipality of Remedios.
The victim, identified as Maylén Guerra García, had two adult children. The aggressor was his partner and the violent incident occurred in the home they both shared.
A few days later, the case of Misladis Carmenates Hidalgo, 43 years old and mother of three children (one of them a minor), who wasmurdered in Camagüey by her partner.
Also in January, the death of Ruthjaine Estrada González, 25 years old and mother of two children, who wasmurdered in the city of Guantánamo by her ex-partner. The crime occurred on December 24 but was not revealed until the beginning of this year.
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