A Cuban woman residing in the town of Campo Florido, in the municipality of Habana del Este, in the capital, was recently attacked with a machete by a man, according to reports on social media by the victim's mother and other family members.
"This is my beautiful daughter. I ask God to save her and return her to me alive. I ask all my friends and family to pray for her, as the forecasts, despite her seriousness, are quite favorable. She is conscious and improving. Thank you, Lord, thank you for giving me the opportunity to have my beloved daughter back," wrote Idelisa Peña on Facebook, who identified herself as the mother of Yidania Santos Peña, the woman who was the target of an attempted femicide.
The victim's mother shared a photo of the alleged attacker on social media and expressed her concern that he has not been captured by the police, to whom she criticized for their inaction.
"This is the guy who attacked my daughter with a machete, but the police in Habana del Este have done nothing. They came last night, stayed for less than an hour, and left, and to date they haven't returned to provide protection for the family. This man is armed. If it had been a cow that he had killed, they would be acting like 'Tras la huella'," the victim's mother claimed.
"If the family catches him first, it's a tragedy because they will kill him," he warned in another post.
Diani Karla Peña, who identified herself as the cousin of the injured woman, requested help on social media, as 11 people live on a farm, including four minors, and they fear that the attacker could harm other family members.
"Please, we are going through a very serious situation. The person who did that to my cousin still hasn't turned himself in, and the authorities aren't doing much to find him either. I should tell you, as you already know, we live on the Santa Bárbara road, at the El Vaquerito farm. The police have come here, yes, that's true, but they are not doing their job properly," Peña wrote.
The woman added that she called the police very scared because "the bastard" was in the backyard of the house.
"The police came, they were here for a moment and then left. We have no protection at all. Right now in my house there are four minors and seven adults. Please, we are scared for the children and the police don’t care. Or what are they waiting for, for another tragedy to happen? If they put up a sign, it gets filled with police. If you speak badly, it gets filled with police. And there is no police that will catch that wretch," she concluded.
The crime reporter, Niover Licea, identified the aggressor as Juan Enrique Jiménez Pacheco and specified that Yidania Santos Peña is 43 years old and is the mother of four children.
Until September 19, the number of femicides this year in Cuba was 37 verified macho crimes, three attempts of femicide, six cases that require access to investigation, and two murders of men for gender-related reasons.
The official Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) has admitted that more than 16,000 women and girls, from 9,579 families, live in situations of violence in the country.
The organization has also recognized an increase in feminicides since the pandemic, although it refuses to use that term and uses femicide instead.
In early August, the regime reported that in 2023, 60 cases of murders of women aged 15 or older for gender-related reasons were tried in courts, of which 50 (83.3%) were killed by their partners or former partners, and the rest by other attackers, according to data from the Observatory of Cuba on Gender Equality.
Additionally, the previous year, 378 cases of sexual violence were also tried in court processes, and several women were left with injuries after attacks from their ex-partners.
The Cuban government created a national system for the registration, care, monitoring, and follow-up of gender-based violence incidents in the family setting in July, as announced in a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
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