Cuban mother murdered with a firearm in Güines

Otherfeminicide is reported in Cuba, after themurder with a firearmmother in the municipality of Güines, province ofMayabeque, according to complaints reported on social networks.

The victim of this new case of femicide is named Rosmery Ponce, 25 years old, who was allegedly shot to the head by her ex-partner, 50 years old, and father of her two-year-old son, as reported inFacebook by Yasmely Peña.

“This man is dangerous and evil. He says that the police don't do anything to him because he fills the bellies of all the police. And it's true, because we have made several complaints and they never did anything to him and look what he ended up with: he killed my niece, the mother of his child. I want justice, justice,” Peña denounced on the social network, where he posted photos of the alleged murderer.

Also inFacebook The independent journalist Alberto Arego assured that a source close to the victim informed him that the alleged murderer is “a man about 50 years old,” who “killed his wife who was only 25 years old and left an orphaned child of so "only two years old."

Likewise, he commented that the murder of this young mother occurred on Monday night when she was at a friend's house.

“She was at a friend's house in the living room and the shot came through the window. Just one straight to the head. "No one saw the person, but it is believed that it was her ex-partner and father of the child because he constantly threatened her and beat her," the source said.

Furthermore, a friend of the murdered young woman confirmed to the journalistCubita Now that his death was caused by a firearm and that the alleged murderer is a fugitive from justice.

“It was with a firearm. She was an acquaintance of mine, the person who murdered her is still a fugitive and was her ex-partner. I am writing to you because I know the work you do to make these events visible in our country,” he noted.

Other people close to the victim in statements to other media reported a similar version of the circumstances of this new feminicide in Cuba.

“They killed her with a shot to the head with a cartridge shotgun. He was the father of her son who is still a fugitive. As a mother, it is not easy,” said a source close to the influencer Brian Infante.

“EPD for Rosmery. May God rest her in his holy glory. My condolences to all his family members. Let justice be done”; “my friend and client. What happened hurts me a lot. Justice for her by God. Condolences to the family” and “those things happen because Cuban laws, which speak so much about women's rights and protection of us, are never fulfilled. A complaint about mistreatment of a woman and they do nothing and look what happens. Life sentence is not enough. EPD”, are some of the comments in the victim's friend networks.

With this case, there are already 51 femicides reported so far this year in Cuba. It's been two days,Independent feminist organizations reported that with two new verified femicides the number of these crimes of gender violence rose to 50 in 2023.

“With the verified femicides of Deyanira Fontanill Pérez (32 years old, April 19, in Trinidad, at the hands of her ex-partner) and Rafaela Yusmila Ramírez Chacón (45 years old, June 21, Baire, at the hands of her partner), the registry "So far this year it has risen to the painful figure of 50 cases,"reportedon Facebook the YoYes TeCreo platform in Cuba.

Deyanira Fontanill Pérez, 32 years old and mother of three children, was murdered by her ex-partner with whom she no longer wanted to continue in the city of Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus.

The crime occurred on April 19, but it was not until a few days ago that journalist Alberto Arego, at the request of the independent feminist platform YoSíTeCreo in Cuba, was able to confirm the case and make it public on Facebook.

So far in 2023, this organization has also identified 2 attempted femicides and 4 cases in which access to the police investigation is needed to conclude whether it is a crime of this nature.

The last of them isElba Yipsi Pérez Álvarez, which occurred on June 11, in Santiago de Cuba, about which information is still needed to know if it qualifies as feminicide.

Last month, YoYesTeCreo in Cuba together with the magazine's Gender ObservatoryTense Wings (OGAT), had confirmed thatJune was the month in which the most femicides occurred in Cuba.

In these 30 days, 11 women were murdered, making this period the most critical of the semester.

“It is inadmissible that any official Cuban institution or media echoes this silent pandemic, and above all it is unacceptable that the regime does not adopt urgent measures such as the declaration of the state of emergency due to gender violence,” denounced the OGAT.

In February of this year, more than a dozen civil society organizations launched a third call for the Cuban regime to declare a State of Emergency due to gender violence. Similar alerts were also made in 2021 and 2022 without a response from government authorities.