Tamara Carreras Martínez, 57 years old and a resident of the city of Santiago de Cuba, was murdered this Thursday by her partner in the street, as reported by journalist Yosmany Mayeta.
The victim worked in the IT department at the University of Oriente. The educational institution published a brief note of condolences, in which they did not specify the cause of death.
"The university community mourns the unfortunate passing of our colleague Tamara Carrera Martínez at the age of 57, a worker at the Directorate of Computerization of our University," wrote the esteemed institution on its Facebook profile.
"News like this saddens us and fills us with sorrow. We extend our sincere condolences to their family and loved ones," they added.
According to Mayeta Labrada, the attacker was beaten by neighbors in the neighborhood who were witnesses to the aggression.
Images shared showed the moment when the assailant -whose identity has not been disclosed- was being taken to a hospital. There is no information about his health condition.
Tamara Carrera Martínez would have turned 58 years old next November and lived on San Antonio Street, between Barnada and San Agustín.
A neighbor who requested to remain anonymous told the cited source that the woman was suffering from abuse.
"The husband is very toxic and was suffocating her," she pointed out.
The victim had a son, Ariel Despaigne Carreras, who, according to the same neighbor, was "out of the country," "crossing," for a few days, presumably making the migratory journey through Central America.
The young man has acknowledged in several responses in Mayeta's post that he learned about the terrible news while being away from the country.
"To find out from so far away hurts," he wrote, in addition to thanking one by one the messages that hundreds of users publicly sent him expressing their condolences.
"Thank you very much to my neighbors and family for their total support," he summarized in another of those messages.
Tamara Carreras would be the second femicide reported in Santiago de Cuba so far this month.
Just a few days ago, the femicide of Yucleidis "Cuca" Morales was confirmed in the same province, in this case in Baltony, in the Los Reynaldo popular council, in the municipality of Songo-La Maya.
Until the closure of this note, feminist platforms have not reported on their networks the most recent femicide that occurred in Santiago de Cuba.
If confirmed as such, the number of crimes due to gender-based violence verified by independent platforms would rise to 43 in 2024.
In August, the regime revealed that in 2023, 60 cases of murders of women aged 15 or older for gender reasons were judged in courts, of which 50 (83.3%) were killed by their partners or ex-partners, and the rest by other aggressors, according to data from the Cuba Gender Equality Observatory.
A total of 378 cases of sexual violence were also judged, and an unspecified number of women were left with injuries after attacks from their ex-partners.
In the Cuban Penal Code, femicide is not classified as a crime, and the terms "femicide" or "machista crime" are not used either.
The official Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) has admitted that more than 16,000 women and girls, from 9,579 families, are living in situations of violence in the country.
The government created a national system in July for registering, addressing, following up on, and monitoring cases of gender-based violence in the family setting.
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