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The Havana neighborhood of El Vedado woke up this Friday in shock following the femicide of a resident on 27th Street, who was found dead early in the morning in the park at the central corner of 23rd Street and Avenida Paseo, in the heart of the Plaza de la Revolución municipality.
The victim, a resident of 27th Street, received four stab wounds and bled to death.
The professor and historian Julio César González Pagés, a resident of the so-called "West Vedado," was the one who publicly denounced the crime on Facebook.
"The neighborhood has been in shock since yesterday due to the femicide of a resident from 27th Street, who was found dead after having received four stab wounds. The murder, resulting from bleeding out, occurred in the early morning hours in the central park at the corner of 23rd Street and Avenida Paseo," wrote González Pagés.
According to comments from neighbors collected by the academic, the alleged assailant is said to be the victim's ex-partner, who reportedly attempted to take their own life the day before the crime.
The woman leaves behind two young orphaned children and a shattered family.
The crime occurred while the neighborhood was without electricity, gas, or water, a situation that González Pagés summarized with bitter irony: "Chronicles of any Friday from Apogonia, the capital of Oscuristan. Not one less!"
This femicide is not an isolated incident but the latest episode in a spiral of violence that has been shaking El Vedado for days.
González Pagés himself reported on Thursday that neighbors are going out in the early hours of the morning to catch thieves due to the sense of impunity, and that in just one week, over 30 burglaries were recorded in homes in the area between Zapata and 23, and between Paseo and 12.
On Wednesday, he personally suffered an attempted robbery by two minors while returning from shopping, and he warned: "Senior citizens are now the target of robberies and assaults."
The case fits the dominant pattern of femicides in Cuba documented by the Gender Observatory of Alas Tensas (OGAT): 83.3% are committed by the partner or ex-partner, 64.6% are carried out with a sharp weapon, and 62.5% occur in the immediate surroundings of the victim.
As of May 23, the OGAT had verified 26 femicides in Cuba so far in 2026, compared to the 48 recorded throughout 2025, indicating that the pace this year is significantly more severe.
The actual figures could be even higher, as the Cuban government does not publish official statistics on these crimes, and underreporting is a constant acknowledged by independent observatories themselves.
The legal framework exacerbates the problem: the Penal Code in effect since November 2022 does not classify femicide as an autonomous crime, Cuba lacks a comprehensive gender violence law, and there are no shelters for women at risk or effective protection protocols.
Between 2019 and 2025, OGAT and the organization Yo Sí Te Creo en Cuba documented a total of 315 femicides on the Island, a figure that reflects the magnitude of a crisis that the regime refuses to officially acknowledge.
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