A Cuban mother was stabbed to death on the morning of this Monday by her ex-partner in broad daylight in the Cerro municipality of Havana, according to reports on social media.
The victim, identified as Dianelis Veloz Hernández, had just dropped off her children at "Reinel Páez" Primary School, located at the intersection of Calzada de Buenos Aires and Consejero Arango, when she was intercepted by her ex-partner on the street, according to a Facebook post by the news outlet La Tijera, based on reports from the victim's family sources.
The woman and the man began to argue, and then he attacked her, stabbing her multiple times, one of which was in the neck.
According to eyewitnesses of the crime, they were arguing over money. She was telling him that she had it at home, and at one point, the man seemed to embrace her, and in that moment, he stabbed her.
The killer - identified by the victim's family as Johnny González - was admitted urgently and underwent surgery, though the hospital’s name is unknown.
Although the aforementioned source did not specify, in the comments section of the post, several users clarified that the attacker was hospitalized because he injured himself after committing the femicide.
On social media, family and friends of Dianelis have reacted with grief to the femicide that has left some young children orphaned.
As of the publication of this report, feminist platforms have not provided information about what could become the 44th verified femicide of the year.
On October 28, the Gender Observatory Alas Tensas (OGAT) and YoSíTeCreo en Cuba (YSTCC) confirmed another femicide that took place on the streets, this time in Santiago de Cuba on October 24.
Last week, 57-year-old Tamara Carreras Martínez, an employee of the University of Oriente, was attacked by her partner on a street in downtown Santiago de Cuba. The aggressor was beaten by neighborhood residents who witnessed the femicide. The attacker was hospitalized and later arrested.
As of October 28, the underreporting recorded by the mentioned observatories in Cuba for this year included 43 femicides, five attempted femicides, six cases requiring access to police investigation, and two male homicides motivated by gender-related reasons.
Additionally, alleged femicides are being investigated in Las Tunas, Matanzas, Camagüey, and Guantánamo.
In August, the regime revealed that in 2023, 60 cases of femicides involving women aged 15 and older were tried in courts. Of these, 50 (83.3%) were murdered by their partners or ex-partners, while the rest were killed by other assailants, 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 suffered injuries from attacks by their ex-partners.
In the Cuban Penal Code, femicide is not classified as a crime, nor are the terms "femicide" or "machismo crime" used.
The official Cuban Federation of Women (FMC) has acknowledged that more than 16,000 women and girls from 9,579 families live in situations of violence in the country.
In July, the government established a national system for the registration, assistance, monitoring, and tracking of incidents of gender-based violence within the family context.
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