Feminicide confirmed 31 in Cuba so far this year.

Feminist platforms confirmed this Monday that a double crime that occurred in the rural town of Suferry, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, is classified as femicide, resulting in the deaths of a woman and her father, and leaving a family friend injured.

The female victim, 28 years old and identified as Yumary Morales Guerra, died on July 15 due to the serious injuries inflicted by her ex-partner.

In the serious incident that occurred on July 8, Félix Morales died instantly, as confirmed on social media by Alas Tensas, which also mentioned a friend of Yumary who was injured and is recovering from the attack.

Although feminist platforms did not identify the aggressor, the killer was previously identified by independent media as Richard Sánchez Ferrales.

The man who was enjoying a pass from prison when on the night of July 8 entered the home of his ex-partner and first killed his former father-in-law, a 70-year-old man who was fatally attacked with a machete from behind.

Immediately afterwards, Sánchez Ferrales attacked Yumary Morales Guerra, his ex-partner, with the same knife, leaving her severely injured.

Yoledys Díaz Batista, a young neighbor and friend of Yumary who came to support the family, also ended up with a severe injury to her arm and is still hospitalized.

As of this July 29, the underreporting of femicides verified by feminist platforms so far this year is 31 femicides, 3 attempted femicides, and six cases needing access to investigation.

They are also investigating an alert in each of the following provinces: Las Tunas, Matanzas, Havana, and Santiago de Cuba.

The Cuban government does not include the concept of femicide in the current Penal Code, approved in May 2022.

However, in response to the increasing pressure from citizens and independent feminist platforms, the creation of a national system in Cuba for the registration, attention, follow-up, and monitoring of cases of gender-based violence in the family context has just been announced.

A recent report from the official newspaper Granma mentioned that the System is made up of "25 experts" from the Ministry of the Interior and the Supreme People's Court, and its objective is to develop "a computerized and interoperable administrative registry, which would use the institutions' own platforms for the management of criminal processes."