Independent platforms dedicated to recording cases of gender-based violence in Cuba confirmed the murder of a woman in Santiago de Cuba at the hands of her ex-partner last Sunday, a crime that raises the number of femicides in the country to 40 during 2024.
Dagnis Alida Hernández Milanés, 39 years old and mother of two children, lost her life on October 13 "due to the injuries inflicted that same day by her ex-partner when he attacked her in her home in the San Pedrito neighborhood in the city of Santiago de Cuba," reported the gender observatories of the magazine Alas Tensas (OGAT) and YoSíTeCreo en Cuba (YSTCC) this Wednesday.
The murder of Hernández was witnessed by her 11-year-old son, who was at home when the victim's ex-husband broke in and attacked her with a knife, according to information that surfaced on the same Sunday.
The woman was urgently taken to Saturnino Lora Provincial Hospital and underwent surgery, but she did not survive the injuries inflicted by her attacker.
OGAT and YSTCC also confirmed that Hernández "had made previous reports to the police against her attacker," as revealed to the press and activists by people close to her.
The platforms sent condolences to Hernández's minor son and his adult daughter, as well as to other family members and close friends.
To date, the platforms have also verified five attempted femicides, six cases that require access to police investigations, and two murders of men for gender-related reasons.
Additionally, they are investigating six other possible feminicides, in Matanzas (2), Las Tunas (1), Camagüey (1), Guantánamo (1), and Santiago de Cuba (1).
Last week it was reported that the young Liz Yohana Jiménez Morales, 18 years old, was murdered by her teenage boyfriend in her own home, in Mayajigua, municipality of Yaguajay, Sancti Spíritus.
The official Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) has acknowledged 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 that, since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increase in femicides in Cuba, although it refuses to use that term and employs the term femicide instead.
In August, the regime revealed 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 ex-partners, and the rest by other aggressors, according to data from the Observatory of Cuba on Gender Equality.
A total of 378 cases of sexual violence were also judged, and an unspecified number of women were left with injuries after attacks by their ex-partners.
The Cuban government created in July a national system for the registration, attention, monitoring, and oversight of gender-based violence incidents in the family setting, as announced in a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
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