Lenia Valdés Amador, mother of the doctor Yanelkys Alonso Valdés, who was murdered last Sunday in Güines, passed away this Friday after remaining in critical condition for several days due to the injuries she sustained in the same attack that claimed her daughter's life.
The platform of Facebook Nio Reportando un Crimen confirmed the elderly woman's death "around midnight, after several days fighting for her life," during which she had to undergo surgery following an attack due to a pneumothorax.
With her death, the crime claims a second fatal victim: mother and daughter who died as a result of the same attack, five days apart.
Yanelkys Alonso Valdés, 55 years old, was a specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Maternal Hospital of Güines.
The alleged attacker was identified by Nio as Horlianys Valdés, the doctor’s ex-partner.
In the same attack, a cousin of the victim was injured while trying to intervene to protect both women.
After the assault, the accused harmed himself; although initial reports circulated about his death, it was confirmed that he survived and remained in police custody while receiving medical attention.
The Gender Observatory of Alas Tensas (OGAT) verified the murders of Yanelkys and her mother Lenia as feminicides 47 and 48 so far this year in Cuba.
OGAT specified that the elderly woman was bedridden.
"She died due to events to be detailed that occurred in her home, when the ex-partner of her daughter Yanelkys Alonso Valdés entered the house armed...", adds the post shared on Facebook.
Güines has already recorded three femicides this year: in April, Mariolis López Silio, 37 years old and a mother of four, was murdered, and in July, Yesneidy López Hernández was killed in broad daylight by her ex-partner.
The pattern repeats with a regularity that independent organizations have been documenting for years: according to OGAT, 83.3% of femicides in Cuba are perpetrated by partners or ex-partners, 64.6% are committed with a sharp weapon, and 62.5% occur within the victim's own home.
The total accumulated from 2019 to July 2026 amounts to 359 verified cases, a figure that the independent organization itself considers to be an underreporting, due to the lack of systematic and accessible official data.
The Cuban regime lacks a comprehensive law against gender violence, and the 2022 Penal Code does not classify femicide as an independent crime, but only as an aggravating factor of homicide.
The National Assembly rejected an amendment in 2022 to incorporate it as an independent criminal figure, an omission that human rights organizations denounce as a sign of the structural impunity surrounding these crimes.
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