{"id":246998,"date":"2021-12-16T10:23:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=246998"},"modified":"2021-12-16T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:23:59","slug":"yositecreo-repercussions-ramifications-and-contexts-of-the-becquer-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/yositecreo-repercussions-ramifications-and-contexts-of-the-becquer-case\/","title":{"rendered":"#YoS\u00edTeCreo: repercussions, ramifications and contexts of the \u201cB\u00e9cquer case\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has been no topic more discussed and debated by Cubans in recent days, particularly on social media, than the allegations of sexual abuse against singer-songwriter Fernando B\u00e9cquer. A report <\/span>published<\/span><\/a> on the independent magazine <\/span>El Estornudo<\/span><\/i> on December 8 has been the trigger for what many already describe as the Cuban #MeToo and almost a week later it continues to generate repercussions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The stories of five women and their traumatic experiences with B\u00e9cquer make up the aforementioned text, which directly questions the singer-songwriter living on the island and implicated several people around him, who apparently knew of his alleged abuses and predatory practices, carried out with impunity for \u2014 at least \u2014 almost two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

The publication has raised a wave of controversies, and has already had various ramifications both on this particular plot and on sexual harassment and gender-based violence in Cuba. These issues, which were already being strongly problematized by sectors of Cuban civil society and the government, have gained pressing visibility on the networks, especially Facebook and Twitter, where many women have mobilized to give new testimonies of sexual abuse, through spontaneous activism woven with the tags #YoS\u00edLesCreo, #YoS\u00edTeCreo, and #MeToo, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, there has been no shortage of those who have unconditionally supported B\u00e9cquer \u2014 who has denied the accusations \u2014 or have given him the benefit of the doubt and the presumption of innocence. And neither those who have distanced themselves from him, have acknowledged having had prior news about his alleged abuse and have publicly apologized to his victims.<\/span><\/p>\n

All of this occurs against the backdrop of the drafting and debate of the new <\/span>Family Code<\/span><\/a>, which must be taken to popular consultation next year for its final approval and in which the issue of violence, together with equal rights, the plurality and necessary inclusivity in family fabric, is a central section of the proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, <\/span>the entry into force<\/span><\/a> of a government strategy for the prevention and attention to gender-based violence and violence in the family setting in Cuba, approved by the Council of Ministers last June, as a step that continues in the wake of the National Program for the Advancement of Women, approved in March by Presidential Decree.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reactions to the \u201cB\u00e9cquer case\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

In the midst of the controversies over the <\/span>El Estornudo<\/span><\/i> report and its aftermath on the networks and other unofficial media, many public figures and ordinary people have positioned themselves on these events and gender-based violence in a general sense. And, as it is not difficult to verify, most of the comments and publications in this regard have offered their support to the victims, have spoken out against this scourge and have called for greater social and state commitment to confront it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the reactions to the accusations against Fernando B\u00e9cquer, artists such as <\/span>Hayd\u00e9e Milan\u00e9s<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Eme Alfonso<\/span><\/a> and Rita del Prado have publicly expressed solidarity with the complainants:<\/span><\/p>\n

There has been no topic more discussed and debated by Cubans in recent days, particularly on social media, than the allegations of sexual abuse against singer-songwriter Fernando B\u00e9cquer. A report <\/span>published<\/span><\/a> on the independent magazine <\/span>El Estornudo<\/span><\/i> on December 8 has been the trigger for what many already describe as the Cuban #MeToo and almost a week later it continues to generate repercussions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The stories of five women and their traumatic experiences with B\u00e9cquer make up the aforementioned text, which directly questions the singer-songwriter living on the island and implicated several people around him, who apparently knew of his alleged abuses and predatory practices, carried out with impunity for \u2014 at least \u2014 almost two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

The publication has raised a wave of controversies, and has already had various ramifications both on this particular plot and on sexual harassment and gender-based violence in Cuba. These issues, which were already being strongly problematized by sectors of Cuban civil society and the government, have gained a pressing visibility on the networks, especially Facebook and Twitter, where many women have mobilized to give new testimonies of sexual abuse, through a spontaneous activism woven with the tags #YoS\u00edLesCreo, # oS\u00edTeCreo, and #MeToo, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, there has been no shortage of those who have unconditionally supported B\u00e9cquer \u2014 who has denied the accusations \u2014 or have given him the benefit of the doubt and the presumption of innocence. And neither those who have distanced themselves from him, have acknowledged having had prior news about his alleged abuse and have publicly apologized to his victims.<\/span><\/p>\n

All of this occurs against the backdrop of the drafting and debate of the new <\/span>Family Code<\/span><\/a>, which must be taken to popular consultation next year for its final approval and in which the issue of violence, together with equal rights, the plurality and necessary inclusivity in family fabric, is a central section of the proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, <\/span>the entry into force<\/span><\/a> of a government strategy for the prevention and attention to gender-based violence and violence in the family setting in Cuba, approved by the Council of Ministers last June, as a step that continues in the wake of the National Program for the Advancement of Women, approved in March by Presidential Decree.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reactions to the \u201cB\u00e9cquer case\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

In the midst of the controversies over the <\/span>El Estornudo<\/span><\/i> report and its aftermath on the networks and other unofficial media, many public figures and ordinary people have positioned themselves on these events and gender-based violence in a general sense. And, as it is not difficult to verify, most of the comments and publications in this regard have offered their support to the victims, have spoken out against this scourge and have called for greater social and state commitment to confront it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the reactions to the accusations against Fernando B\u00e9cquer, artists such as <\/span>Hayd\u00e9e Milan\u00e9s<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Eme Alfonso<\/span><\/a> and Rita del Prado have publicly expressed solidarity with the complainants:<\/span><\/p>\n