The Gender Observatory of Alas Tensas (OGAT) confirmed this Friday a new femicide in Cuba: that of Ana Vivian Suárez Cruz, 21 years old, who died on August 13 in La Palma, Pinar del Río, under circumstances that initially circulated on social media as a death under strange conditions.
According to the post on Facebook, community sources confirmed that Ana Vivian's ex-partner is already being processed by the authorities, and that eyewitnesses saw him participate in a reconstruction of the events recently carried out by the Police.
The organization warns that there may be another person involved in the crime, noting that the case illustrates "the sophistication achieved by perpetrators who simulate the suicide of their victims in order to avoid being caught."
The assailant, whose name was not disclosed, had a history of violence against women.
OGAT described Ana Vivian as "a hardworking and cheerful young woman" and extended its condolences to her mother and brother.
With this case, the observatory raises the number of femicides documented in Cuba during 2026 to 59, a figure that already significantly exceeds the 49 recorded in all of 2025, positioning the current year as one of the deadliest since monitoring began in 2019.
Pinar del Río has already recorded four confirmed femicides this year.
OGAT also recorded 38 attempted femicides and two murders of men in the context of feminicide violence during 2026, and it continues to investigate 11 possible femicides and 16 attempted cases reported so far this year that have yet to be verified. Additionally, it considers the case of Bárbara Sánchez González as a possible femicidal suicide.
Cuba does not classify femicide as an independent crime in its Penal Code — the National Assembly rejected an amendment to include it in 2022 — and the government does not publish official statistics on these crimes.
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