The communist Castro dictatorship has little to no mechanisms in place to protect women from violence, and Cuban women are paying for the regime’s systemic failures with their lives.
Cuban civil society organizations demand that the regime declare a state of emergency due to gender violence
‘They’re killing us because we lack effective prevention protocols and mechanisms in Cuba,’ complain several organizations.
Several Cuban civil society organizations demanded that the regime declare a state of emergency in the country given the spike in gender violence, which in recent days has claimed the lives of at least three women, including a 17-year-old.
In a letter published on the Facebook page of the platform Yo Sí Te Creo in Cuba, in which they again call for the approval of a law against gender violence, the organizations recalled that in 2021 and 2022 they made two appeals “seeking, without success, for the Cuban State to declare a state of emergency for gender violence, at a time when numerous acts of extreme violence have been reported in a short space of time.”
“Today we are in another situation that would also merit declaring a state of emergency, a mechanism that consists of establishing measures to prevent and eradicate behaviors that promote gender violence, along with protection protocols for survivors,” says the text, signed by Yo Sí Te Creo en Cuba, the magazine Alas Tensas, the Cuban Alliance for Inclusion, Casa Palanca, the Citizen Committee for Racial Integration, Cubalex and Justicia 11J, among other projects.
The letter noted that, in less than a week, three femicides were recorded in Cuba. Two of the murdered women had previously been reported missing. The third, a 17-year-old teenager, was murdered by her ex-partner, a 50-year-old man.
This femicide took place at a police station, where the young woman entered seeking protection against the aggressor. Civil society organizations observed on Facebook that this man had “a history of gender violence,” an observation echoed by a neighbor who offered his testimony, on condition of anonymity, to the activist Alpidio Leyva, after the incident.
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