A woman, mother of two children, died on the night of this Sunday after having been stabbed by her ex-partner in Santiago de Cuba.
The victim -identified as Dagnis Hernández Milanés- was attacked inside her home in the San Pedrito neighborhood, as specified on Facebook by journalist Yosmany Mayeta based on witness reports.
"The ex-husband entered through the roof of the neighboring house and started to stab her in front of her 11-year-old son," revealed a source familiar with the case.
"She accused him and then withdrew the accusation, and this happened several times until, a few days ago, he was hitting her and she called the police, and by a miracle they arrived, because they almost never do," she added.
Dagnis Hernández was taken urgently to Saturnino Lora Provincial Hospital and underwent surgery, but ended up dying as a result of knife wounds.
The identity of the killer has not been revealed, nor has it been confirmed if they were captured.
As of the closing of this note, feminist platforms have not commented on the incident, which could raise the number of femicides in Cuba to 40 so far this year.
Until October 9, the Gender Observatory Alas Tensas (OGAT) and YoSíTeCreo en Cuba (YSTCC) reported 39 cases of gender-based murders in 2024, along with five attempted femicides and six cases needing access to police investigation.
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 employs the term femicide instead.
In early August of this year, the regime reported that in 2023, 60 cases of murders of women aged 15 and older for gender-related reasons were tried in courts, of which 50 (83.3%) were killed by their partners or ex-partners, and the rest by other aggressors, according to data from the Observatory of Cuba on Gender Equality.
In addition, the previous year, 378 cases of sexual violence were also judged in judicial processes, and several women were left with injuries after attacks from their ex-partners.
The Cuban government created a national system for the registration, attention, follow-up, and monitoring of gender-based violence cases in the family setting in July, as announced in a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
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