Cuban mother murdered by her partner in Camagüey.

The Cuban Annelis Hernández Puerto, 47 years old, was murdered by her partner on September 19, in her home in the municipality of Florida, in Camagüey, independent platforms confirmed this Monday.

The crime against Hernández raises the number of reported femicides in Cuba to 38 during 2024, according to the underreporting documented by the observatories of gender-based violence Yo Sí Te Creo en Cuba (YSTCC) and the magazine Alas Tensas (OGAT).

The killer, whose name was not revealed, committed suicide after taking the life of his wife.

Both platforms corroborated with community sources the events that had been published in previous days by media outlets, citizens, and activists.

OGAT and YSTCC warned “about the extreme violence of this case, as a repeated demonstration of misogyny in Cuba,” although they did not provide details about the tragic event, which has brought grief to another Cuban family.

The statement issued this Monday conveyed condolences to Hernández's adult son, who survives him, as well as to other family members and individuals close to the victim.

To date, the platforms have also verified three attempts of femicide, six cases that need access to police investigation, and two murders of men for gender-related reasons.

In addition, they are investigating five other possible femicides, in Matanzas (2), Las Tunas (1), Camagüey (1), and Guantánamo (1).

At the beginning of last August, the Cuban government reported that in 2023, 60 cases of murders of women aged 15 or older for gender-related reasons were tried in courts, of which 50 (83.3%) were killed by their partners or ex-partners, and the rest by other assailants, according to data from the Observatory of Cuba on Gender Equality.

In addition, according to the same source, 378 cases of sexual violence were judged in judicial processes, and several women were left with injuries after attacks by their ex-partners.

The official Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) recently acknowledged that more than 16,000 women and girls from 9,579 families live in situations of violence in the country.

The organization also acknowledged an increase in femicides since the pandemic, although it refuses to use that term and employs the term femicide instead.