Crime elevates 7 femicides in Cuba in 2025

Cristina Guerra, a 54 -year -old Cuban, was shot at her home in the community of San Antonio, in the municipality of Vertientes, in Camagüey, on February 2, independent organizations reported. His death elevates seven the number of femicides verified in the country so far this year.

The Dense Alas Observatory (OGAT) and the platform I do believe you in Cuba (YSTCC) said in a release that the responsible person has not been identified so far but that the conditions described «indicate gender bias» in crime.

Days before Martí News reported the murder of Marialedys Abad Morgado, a 55 -year -old woman, murdered by her ex -partner in the Albaisa cast, in the municipality of Guáimaro, also in Camagüey. The aggressor was in the penitentiary pass at the time of the fact.

The man, identified as Yoel Caballero, fled the scene and was caught by the police in the Guáimaro municipality.

Lisbania Ortega, the youngest of the two daughters of Marialedys, related our writing that her mother and the attacker had maintained a romantic relationship for about two years, but that she had interrupted her and he did not resign.

«I harassed her a lot,» he said.

In 2024, according to the registration of independent observatories, at least 55 women were victims of femicide in Cuba. From 2019 to date, OGAT and YSTCC have verified at least 271 macho crimes.

«This fact represents only a sub -registration, since both platforms face serious limitations: they do not have access to medical or police records, and must deal with the criminalization of the Cuban regime and the lack of public statistics to verify the alerts they receive,» said Alas Tenses magazine.

The murder of Cristina Guerra reopens the debate about the Firearms in Cubawhich in recent years appear more and more in crimes that occur in the country.

The researcher of the Cuban Cuban Observatory of Citizen Audit, José Manuel González Rubines, told Martí News this week that on many occasions they are used only as a deterrent. «

«There is an increase in crimes in which firearms are involved, often with artisanal invoice, firearms that people often denounce that they have been stolen from the state system, either by low, due to theft or for losses, or that they have entered the country illegally,» added the expert.