With the confirmation of the murder of the young mother Yudely Chongo by his ex-partner, in Villa Clara, The number of victims of femicides in Cuba so far in 2024 has risen to 18, according to independent Cuban platforms.
The observatories of IYesI Believe in Cuba and from the magazine Tense Wings confirmed this Monday the feminicide of Chongo, 28 years old and mother of a small child, which occurred on April 18 in the rural community of Mataguá, Manicaragua, in the province of Villa Clara.
“The aggressor was his ex-partner,” they said in a statement, which did not release the name of the perpetrator of the crime. The case had emerged on social networks at the end of April, but was not verified until now.
Both organizations sent condolences to the victim's son, and other family members and friends of her.
OGAT and YSTCC also verified a new feminicide attempt, which brings them to three, until May 5, according to the under-registration carried out by both observatories.
Likewise, they reported that In five cases access to the police investigation is needed. These are the deaths of an elderly woman in Esperanza, Villa Clara; from another whose name is Irma, in Havana; of Teresa Moliner Bosa, also in the capital; of Tania Reyes, in Santiago de Cuba, and Samantha (Sami) Heredia Odrens, in the same eastern city.
The observatories indicated that they are also investigating four alerts: one respectively in Holguín, Ciego de Ávila, Havana and Artemisa, while providing their contact information so that anyone who knows of any case of extreme gender violence can report it.
In 2023, the highest number of femicides in a year was reported in Cuba -89 in total-, according to the under-registration of cases that OGAT and YSTCC have been carrying since 2019.
Between both years, the observatories verified 220 femicides in the country.
Five Cubans were sentenced to life imprisonment for femicides in 2023, according to information revealed by officials of the Supreme Court and the Attorney General's Office in the television program “We Make Cuba,” hosted by the regime's spokesperson Humberto López.
The previous year, the Cuban judicial system also sentenced two other feminicides to 40 years in prison and more than 70% of the accused to sentences between 25 and 30 years in prison.
The Cuban regime does not contemplate the figure of feminicide in the Current Penal Code, which was approved in May 2022.
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