Cuban feminist platforms confirmed two new femicides in the country, bringing the total number of violent deaths of women to 30 so far this year.
The gender violence observatories YoSíTeCreo in Cuba (YSTCC) and Alas Tensas (OGAT) confirmed this Thursday the murder of Damaris Rondón, 48 years old, which occurred in a rural town in the Isla de la Juventud.
The crime was committed by his partner, who later committed suicide. The assault occurred on June 22nd, but the victim passed away on June 29th.
Our condolences go out to the two surviving children, one of whom is a minor, as well as to the rest of the family and close friends, and to the religious community to which both the victim and the perpetrator belonged," Alas Tensas specified on Facebook.
The internet user Irma Broek detailed that Damaris had been married to her husband for over 30 years, who is the father of her young children, and they frequently attended church.
Although they had experienced some separations due to his infidelity, in the eyes of all who knew them, they were a calm, beloved, and respected family, originally from El Sitio in Manzanillo, Granma, but they moved to the Isla de la Juventud," detailed on Facebook.
A neighbor from the area said that the man, named Luis Yero, waited for his two children to leave the house, the female to her nursing studies and the male to his job.
He hit his wife over the head with a bat, thinking she was dead, he left the house and hanged himself. Damaris was taken to the hospital, but four days later, she passed away.
The other femicide had been reported by both independent media outlets and profiles linked to the government on social media.
It is about the murder of Yunaisi Bruzón Almaguer, a 54-year-old resident of Holguín, who died on June 23 after suffering sexual violence at the hands of a person with no verified links to her until now.
Yunaisi was the mother of a minor child.
The platforms also regretted the murder of a man for gender reasons, an elderly man, which occurred on July 8 in the town of Suferry, in Ciego de Ávila, an incident where three women suffered different degrees of aggressions that still keep them hospitalized.
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