A Cuban mother was fatally stabbed on Monday morning by her ex-partner in the street in the Cerro municipality of Havana, according to reports on social media.
The victim -identified as Dianelis Veloz Hernández- had just dropped her children off at "Reinel Páez" Primary School, located at the intersection of Calzada de Buenos Aires and Consejero Arango, when she was intercepted by her ex-partner on the street, as reported on Facebook by the news outlet La Tijera, based on information from the victim's family sources.
The woman and the man began to argue, and then he attacked her, stabbing her multiple times, one of which was in the neck.
According to eyewitnesses of the crime, they were arguing over some money. She told him she had it at home, and at one point, he seemed to embrace her, and in that instant, he stabbed her.
The killer -who the victim's family identified as Johnny González- was admitted urgently and underwent surgery, the hospital where this took place is unknown.
Although the referenced source did not specify, in the comments section of the publication, several users clarified that the assailant was hospitalized because, after committing the femicide, he injured himself.
On social media, family and friends of Dianelis have expressed their sorrow over the femicide, which leaves behind small orphans.
As of the publication of this report, feminist platforms have not reported on what could become the 44th verified femicide so far this year.
On October 28, the Gender Observatory Alas Tensas (OGAT) and YoSíTeCreo en Cuba (YSTCC) verified another femicide that occurred in broad daylight, in this case in Santiago de Cuba on October 24.
Last week, Tamara Carreras Martínez, a 57-year-old employee of the University of Oriente, was attacked by her partner on a street in downtown Santiago de Cuba. The assailant was beaten by neighbors who witnessed the femicide. The attacker was hospitalized and later arrested.
As of October 28, the underreporting recorded by the mentioned observatories this year in Cuba included 43 femicides, five attempted femicides, six cases requiring access to police investigations, and two homicides of men for reasons of gender.
Investigations are also underway into alleged femicides in Las Tunas, Matanzas, Camagüey, and Guantánamo.
In August, the regime revealed that in 2023, 60 cases of murders of women aged 15 and older for gender-related reasons were tried in the courts. Of these, 50 (83.3%) were murdered by their partners or ex-partners, while the rest were killed by other assailants, according to data from the Observatorio de Cuba sobre Igualdad de Género.
A total of 378 cases of sexual violence were also prosecuted, and an unspecified number of women sustained injuries following attacks by their former partners.
The Cuban Penal Code does not classify femicide as a crime, nor does it use the terms "femicide" or "machista crime."
The official Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) has acknowledged that more than 16,000 women and girls from 9,579 families live in situations of violence in the country.
In July, the government established a national system for registering, addressing, tracking, and monitoring incidents of gender-based violence within the family setting.
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