{"id":234579,"date":"2021-02-13T08:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T13:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=234579"},"modified":"2021-02-13T08:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T13:23:58","slug":"feminicide-crime-less-and-less-silent-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/society-cuba\/gender-in-cuba\/feminicide-crime-less-and-less-silent-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminicide, crime less and less silent in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vertrudiz, a \u201cgood-hearted country woman,\u201d was <\/span>murdered<\/span><\/a> by her couple a week ago in the Cuban city of Cienfuegos. Earlier, Yankiel, with a history of <\/span>sexist violence<\/span><\/a>, had taken the life of Yamilka and her two daughters, ages 2 and 5, in a rural town in Las Tunas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gisel, Marta, Mailin and almost thirty Cuban woman had a similar fate in 2020: to die violently at the hands of their couples or ex-couples, according to the count of civil society activists who collect this data and publish it on social networks compared to the state press, where the chronicle of events practically does not exist.<\/span><\/p>\n

With these types of cases banned from official journalism, the problem of gender violence has remained out of the picture in Cuba for decades. Until now.<\/span><\/p>\n

In late 2018 the government authorized the mobile internet service and, with it, thousands of Cubans landed on social networks, becoming real-time chroniclers of events in Cuba, while connectivity facilitated activism to articulate a much faster and more effective way to demand measures to help stop this scourge.<\/span><\/p>\n

First data on femicide in Cuba<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n