The woman who was attacked with a machete by her ex-partner this Monday in Santiago de Cuba in the presence of their young daughter is still fighting for her life at the Saturnino Lora Provincial Hospital.
The victim, 28 years old and identified as Dargis Vargas Ferrer, was attacked by her ex-husband, Alberto Pérez Masso, who at the time of the attack with a knife was on temporary release from prison for another crime, revealed journalist Yosmany Mayeta.
According to the testimony of relatives of Vargas Ferrer, the young woman was operated on and some wounds were sutured, but her condition remains serious. However, the victim's aunt denied that the young woman has passed away.
Yosmany Mayeta echoed the indignation of local residents who explained that since the aggression began, they called the police, but the authorities took a long time to arrive at the scene.
"The house was полностью fenced in and we couldn’t do anything. That guy was damned," a relative of the victim told the reporter.
"The man entered the house and told the other women who were doing their nails to come out, and when they came out, he started to cut them, because he came in with a machete and a knife," another family source reported.
The brutal attack occurred in the Santiago neighborhood of Petrocasas, in the Abel Santamaría Urban Center.
Yosmany Mayeta shared several videos showing a crowd of neighbors gathered around the house where the attempted feminicide occurred.
Several patrol officers surrounded the building where the aggressor was, waiting for the right moment to take him out without the crowd taking justice into their own hands.
At the moment Alberto Pérez was taken out of the home, escorted by the police, dozens of people shouted insults at him.
The victim and their relatives had already filed a complaint for threats.
Violence against women in Cuba is on the rise.
The feminist platform YoSíTeCreo in Cuba raised the number of femicides to 32 for the year last week by verifying the death of 16-year-old Yenifer Vargas Gómez, who was stabbed by her ex-boyfriend on August 13 in Santiago de Cuba, dying hours later that same day.
In a post on its social media, the independent platform stated that the incident in this case "has particularly serious connotations as it was committed against a tenth-grade pre-university student," meaning a minor.
The statement from YoSíTeCreo in Cuba did not reference the capture of the alleged attacker of the minor, who was arrested on the same day as the femicide while hiding in a relative's house.
The underreporting carried out by the Gender Observatory Alas Tensas (OGAT) and the platform YoSíTeCreo in Cuba until August 14 was 32 femicides, three attempted femicides, six cases needing access to the police investigation, and two male murders for gender-related reasons.
According to official data, last year in Cuba, 110 people were tried for femicide - a term that the island's authorities refuse to use - 378 cases of sexual violence were reported, and several women were left with injuries following attacks from their ex-partners.
At the end of July of this year, the Cuban government announced the creation of a national system for the registration, attention, follow-up, and monitoring of gender violence incidents in the family context, as stated in a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
A 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 that its objective is to develop "a computerized and interoperable administrative register, which would use the platforms of these institutions for the management of criminal processes."
However, the Cuban regime does not include the concept of femicide in the current Penal Code, which was approved in May 2022.
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