A new feminicide attempt occurred this Sunday morning in Santiago de Cuba, where a man stabbed his wife seven times.
The terrible event occurred in the town of Altamira and the victim is seriously admitted to the Joaquín Castillo Duany Military Hospital.
The independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada reported in Facebook what the woman's name is Daneyis Del Rey Cabrera and is 30 years old.
"She went to pick up the girl at her grandmother's house in the early morning and, having the girl carried, she threw her seven times and grabbed her in several places," said a friend of the young woman.
"Thank goodness he had time to throw the girl on the bed and she wasn't hurt, because what he did with her was savagery," the source said.
According to that testimony, The girl is Daneyis' daughter with the aggressor, identified as Axel Camilo Romero.
As of the writing of this note, the man remains a fugitive.
The Cuban feminist platforms Alas Tensas (OGAT) and YoSiTeCreoCuba registered 220 femicides on the Island since 2019; of them, 89 occurred last year.
In their 2023 Annual Report on Femicide in Cuba, which closed on March 5, 2024, both organizations state that 89 women were murdered within the country and another 10 crimes against Cuban women occurred abroad.
The figure is much higher than in previous years: 14 femicides in 2019, 33 in 2020, 36 in 2021 and 36 in 2022.
Despite these data, the regime denies femicides and alleges that they are a "media construction".
According to Miguel Díaz-Canel, the term feminicide indicates alleged state inaction in the face of gender-based violent acts, "a media construction completely foreign to Cuban reality," he stated categorically.
In his closing speech at the congress of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), the president defended the measures taken to address the murders of women.
"There can be no impunity in Cuba, much less for crimes motivated by any type of discrimination and above all against women," he said.
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