A man was stabbed on the afternoon of this Tuesday in Boniato, Santiago de Cuba, for reasons that are unknown.
According to the testimony of locals -quoted by journalist Yosmany Mayeta- the injured man "is possibly a guard who lives in the same neighborhood."
Several young people are said to have attacked the soldier with stabbing blows, causing him at least four knife wounds, the source detailed.
The incident occurred around 6:50 p.m. near the Boniato Bridge, in front of a medical office and before reaching the maximum-security prison located in that area.
Images published by Mayeta Labrada showed an impressive and unusual deployment of patrols and several people stationed around the scene.
The victim, whose identity has not been disclosed, was taken by local residents to the Saturnino Lora Provincial Hospital.
The current health status of the assaulted man is unknown, as well as other details regarding the incident.
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In this case, the victim was identified as Yorlandi Rodríguez Valenciano, 38 years old and father of two young girls, who worked in the police unit of Micro 9, in the José Martí District. The body was discovered in a patch of weeds adjacent to a sports complex, and the presumed motive for the crime was the theft of the motorcycle.
In recent days, the vice president of the Supreme Court of Cuba, Maricela Sosa Ravelo, assured the British network BBC that insecurity on the island is a problem exaggerated by social media, and cited - as is usual in the government's rhetoric - defamatory campaigns promoted from the United States.
Sosa Ravelo offered her statements -which the BBC itself described as "uncommon" due to the prevailing secrecy of the Cuban regime- in the same report where two other citizens shared their impressions of security on the island, marking a significant contrast between the perception of the people and that of the authorities.
Maricela Sosa Ravelo argued that "in Cuba, the police have a high success rate in solving crimes," and added that citizens do not take justice into their own hands, which in her opinion "suggests that the population trusts the Cuban justice system."
However, reports of thefts, assaults, murders, and other criminal acts have seen a marked increase in recent years, coinciding with the rise of the economic crisis, inflation, and the decline in the purchasing power of the population.
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