A man was arrested in the Morón municipality of Ciego de Ávila province, as the alleged perpetrator of the murder of a young woman just 25 years old, according to the pro-government Facebook profile "Avileños de corazón."
The source revealed that in the early hours of last Friday, a man identified as Asiel Aquino Hidalgo knocked on the door of a young woman named "Doralis" with the intent to "assault her."
"Its fury was so violent that it left her lifeless," added the state-run media, which specified that the attacker was only able to hide for a few hours before being captured by the police.
"Avileños de corazón" did not specify the relationship between the victim and her aggressor, and simply stated that he took the woman's life "out of jealousy."
The alleged femicide occurred on the island of Turiguanó, in the Morón municipality of Ciego de Ávila.
"As is often the case, the swift action of the police and the residents of Manatí, in the Turiguanó popular council of the Morón municipality, led to the capture of the murderer in just 12 hours," concluded the source, which did not provide further details nor labeled the case as a "femicide," a tendency often observed in Cuban state media that avoids the term.
As of the close of this report, feminist platforms have not spoken out about the case, which, if confirmed as a femicide, would raise the number of women murdered this year as a result of gender-based violence to 46.
On November 4th, the platforms YoSíTeCreo in Cuba and the Gender Observatory Alas Tensas reported a total of 45 verified femicides for the year, along with five attempted femicides, six cases requiring access to police investigation, and two homicides of men for gender-related reasons.
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 courts, of which 50 (83.3%) were killed by their partners or ex-partners, while the rest were murdered by other attackers, according to data from the Observatory of Cuba on Gender Equality.
Additionally, 378 cases of sexual violence were judged, and an unspecified number of women were left injured after attacks by their former partners.
The Cuban Penal Code does not classify feminicide as a crime, nor does it use the terms "feminicide" or "machista crime."
The official Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) has acknowledged that more than 16,000 women and girls, from 9,579 families, are living in conditions of violence in the country.
In July, the government established a national system for the registration, assistance, monitoring, and oversight of incidents of gender-based violence within the family context.
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