A young Cuban woman, barely 22 years old and mother of two small children, was brutally murdered allegedly by her partner, according to several reports on social networks that have been confirmed by family sources of the victim.
The young woman has been identified as Raquel Mery Arriera Álvarez and resided in a village between the municipalities of Guayacanes and Majagua.
The alleged feminicide has been identified as Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Vázquez, a former police officer who, after brutally beating and torturing his partner, He placed the body on the train lines to make it look like it was an accident.
On social networks, some Internet users who were traveling on the train that was traveling on the railway track where the body was discovered have reported how difficult the discovery was for them.
The independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta stated on Facebook that The parents and a sister of the murdered young woman live in the United States.
The victim's mother traveled to Cuba for her daughter's wake and funeral. The remains were veiled with the box closed at the request of the family itself, due to the deplorable conditions of the corpse.
“That HP has to rot in jail. It was so unpleasant and cold that after he did all this, he went to bed as if he had done nothing,” a cousin of the deceased young woman who resides in Santiago de Cuba, described to Mayeta Labrada, who asked for justice for the atrocious crime.
"Oh my beautiful girl, why did you leave, my love? You have left us with an empty heart, my little sister. I have no words, I don't even know how to react. I only ask my God to take care of you in his Holy Glory. I love you, my pretty little sister. EPD, Raquelita," a sister of the murdered young woman wrote on Facebook.
It is not clear if the alleged feminicide was arrested by the authorities or if he remains a fugitive.
Until the closing of this note, the feminist platforms YoSiTeCreo in Cuba and the Alas Tensas Gender Observatory (OGAT) have not reported the crime.
Femicides in Cuba
In another recent report - which has also not been verified by platforms - a woman was murdered last Saturday allegedly with an ax by her ex-partner in the town of El Caney, in Santiago de Cuba. In that case the aggressor, the victim's ex-partner, committed suicide by slitting his throat.
Until February 15, the under-registration of the aforementioned sources was eight femicides so far this year and a case that needs access to the police investigation.
Added to this was that they were working on two other alerts: one in the Esperanza town, in Villa Clara; and another in Becerra, in the province of Las Tunas.
Cuba closed 2023 with the highest number of annual femicides since the independent organizations YoSíTe Creo en Cuba and Alas Tensas began collecting data in 2019.
Between 2019 and 2023, feminist platforms have verified a total of 207 femicides on the island, of which 88 were committed in 2023, according to the initial underreporting of the aforementioned independent organizations.
Although the initial count of feminist platforms was 88 in an update made at the beginning of 2024, they decided to include in the final review the death of the young Aniuvis de la Caridad Delgado Acosta, 27 years old, as a case of gynecobstetric femicide, which raised the figure from 88 to 89.
The underreporting of femicides in Cuba in 2023 stood at 89 femicides; nine attempted feminicides; two gender-related murders and five cases requiring access to police investigation.
In the course of 2023, after years of silence, the Cuban government admitted the problem, although emphasizing that there has been no inaction from the State.
Miguel Díaz-Canel called for "zero tolerance" with sexist violence, but in July he said that in the country Any criminal act is "exaggerated" and in particular those of gender violence. In December the Government assured that the sexist murders on the island totaled 117 "at the end of October", but the criterion used was not specified.
The agency Which one indicated that the average profile of victims of sexist violence in Cuba in 2023 She was a 37-year-old woman, mother of at least one child, living in a rural area and murdered by her ex-partner.
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