Three people were arrested following the discovery of human remains on a farm in Matanzas, according to a report from a account linked to the police in that province.
The incident occurred in Cuatro Esquinas, a small rural village in the municipality of Los Arabos, on the La Amelia farm, reported the official profile "Con Todos La Victoria."
"Nobody could believe what they saw with their own eyes: the remains of a man, scattered at two different locations on the land," the post recounted.
The motive for the crime was robbery. The suspects wanted money, clothing, and other belongings of the victim, but—according to the source—"the situation got out of hand" and they ended up killing her in her own home.
"Afterward, in a desperate attempt to erase the traces, they took the body out of the house and concealed it on the property, in the same places where residents later found the remains," the information specified.
The detainees are named Manuel Antuña Araujo, Danger Luis Zayas Álvarez, and Elio Elieser Álvarez Tamayo.
The victim was not identified.
The incident occurs against the backdrop of a sustained increase in criminal violence in Matanzas. According to data from the Cuban Citizens' Audit Observatory (OCAC), the province recorded 503 verified crimes in 2025, the highest figure in the country.
So far this year, Matanzas has recorded several violent incidents across different municipalities. At the beginning of August, a 19-year-old young man died following a violent incident at a recreational center in the main city, and a 15-year-old teenager was arrested as a suspected perpetrator.
In mid that same month, a man was shot in Limonar while he was about to close the gate of his house.
In rural areas, cases of cattle theft, attacks on farmers, and concealment of corpses in agricultural areas are also reported. In May, a man who was engaged in transportation with his horse-drawn carriage in Cárdenas was found dead with a stab wound in his back.
The OCAC also recorded 721 reports of thefts in rural areas of Cuba during 2025, along with 193 cases of theft and illegal slaughter of livestock in the first half of that year, indicating a sustained deterioration of security in the Cuban countryside, exacerbated by the economic crisis the Island has faced after decades of dictatorship.
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