Cuban murders his wife in Camagüey and then hangs himself

A Cuban who was serving a sanction in the province ofCamaguey in a penal farm, stabbed his wife to death earlier this week and then hanged himself during a visit by his partner to the facility, according to a report on social networks from a source familiar with the case.

The couple had two children together and were from the townAlone, in the Sierra de Cubitas municipality. Internet user Dianela Sánchez - who reported on the case in the Facebook group "Cuban Mothers for a Better World" - identified the victims as "Yordi" and "Mayelín."

In the comments section of the publication, dozens of Internet users were dismayed by the news of a new feminicide in the midst of an alarming increase in violence against women, whileOthers questioned how something like this could happen if the man was under confinement.

"I don't know how it happened. There is no explanation.His children were visiting and he told them to wait, that he had to talk to their mother, and they went to the mountains. I don't know anything else. They were friends of ours. We still can't imagine how it happened. This was two days ago. Yesterday was the funeral [Tuesday]," Dianela Sánchez added.

In response to another comment, the woman specified that when they are on an "open farm" they put them to work. He explained that in Camagüey they put the brigades to make charcoal in the middle of the mountains.

"The prisoner has all the time in the world to premeditate things," he concluded.

In subsequent statements to our media,Dianela Sánchez confirmed that she knew the couple and even argued that the photo of them that she published was taken on the same day of the tragedy, during the visit.

At the closing of this note there are no other details about the event, which at the moment has not been confirmed by feminist platforms.

HeAlas Tensas Gender Observatory (OGAT) raised the number of femicides to 81 this Thursday confirmed in Cuba so far this year after verifying themurder of Yamilet de Jesús Domínguez Torres at the hands of his ex-partner in his home in Banes, in the province of Holguín.

Yamilet's whereabouts were unknown since November 24 and his body appeared on December 13 buried in his own home.

The under-registration of feminicides carried out by the Alas Tensas Gender Observatory and the YoSíTeCreo platform in CubaAs of December 14, there have been 81 femicides, nine attempted feminicides, two gender-related murders and five cases that require access to police investigation.

To these data is added thedeath of Lisbeth Cintra, a 28-year-old Cuban mother whose body was found with signs of violence on the side of a road in Boniato, in Santiago de Cuba - a case that is apparently in the process of verification - and now the death of "Mayelín."

In another publication this week, OGAT condemned theattempted feminicide in Sancti Spíritus by Cuban Yadira Reyes Urrelis, committed by his ex-partner at the end of last month, while criticizing the lack of official media coverage of similar events.

On November 28, Yadira Reyes Urrelis was attacked with machetes in the presence of her daughter. The attack was committed by the minor's father, who cut off both of the woman's arms and caused serious injuries to the rest of her body.

With only 15 days left until the end of the year, the 81 sexist crimes confirmed so far in 2023 far exceed the 34 femicides verified in all of 2022. The disturbing data also corroborates the level of emergency that the issue of sexist violence represents in Cuban society.

In November theCuban government recognized that there was an alarming increase in femicides and cases of violence against women on the island during the first half of 2023.

"In the first half of 2023, a greater number of femicides and complaints by women victims of violence were evident,something that calls us to continue working to prevent the occurrence of events as devastating for a society as these."said the general secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), Teresa Amarelle Boué, at a press conference.

However, the final stretch of the year has shown that the situation is getting worse and worse.