A 10th grader, a victim of sexist violence in Cuba

Cuban student Yennefer Vargas Gomezabout 15 years old, is in the tenth grade at the Rafael María de Mendive y Daumy Preparatory College in Santiago de Cuba. Dead Crime Victims Gender-based violencereports the Cuban independent platform Yo Sí Te Creo.

according to A report Spread across the network of this initiative among civil society on the island, Femicide, ranked 32nd this yearhas “particularly serious implications because it is directed at a pre-university 10th grade adolescent”.

According to the comments, Vargas Gómez died at noon last Tuesday (August 13) at the Children’s Hospital in Santiago de Cuba.”, “Because of the damage caused by his ex-partner that morning.”

The Rafael Maria Demendev Preparatory College, where the teenager studied, did not mention the cause of death. He limits himself to communication “Student Yenifer Vargas Gomez died at noon today. We urge teachers and students to go to the funeral home in the morning. We extend our deepest condolences to family and friends.”

I believe you, I tried to be specific about the age of the minor, although it is assumed that she is 15 years old.

The complaint states that what happened was confirmed through community sources in a concerted effort by feminist magazine Gender Observatory Nervous Wings I trust you.

According to the complaint, both measures are now under-documented. 32 femicide cases, 3 attempted femicide cases and 6 cases requiring police investigation 2024 so far in Cuba.

The latter corresponds to an older adult woman from Villa Esperanza Clara; another, named Irma, died in Havana; Teresa Moliner Bosa and Laura Castillo Zulueta, both from the country’s capital, and Tania Reyes and Samantha (Sami) Heredia Odrens from Santiago de Cuba.

Likewise, organization They included two cases of gender-based murders of men in their summary.and investigating a case in Las Tunas, Matanzas, Havana and Santiago de Cuba respectively.

Earlier this month, the Cuban government’s recently created official Cuban Observatory for Gender Equality confirmed that In 2023, 110 women were murdered on the island by their partners or ex-partnersThese cases, among which The regime refuses to call femicide a crimewhich is 21 higher than the number verified by the independent observatory, making the situation even more worrying.

The official figures include only cases heard last year in which the victim was over 15 years old. In addition, the National Observatory separates murders dealt with by the courts “for reasons of gender” (60 cases) from murders committed by the victim’s partner or ex-partner but not sentenced for aggravating circumstances (50 cases in total).

The authorities also stated As of 2023, Cuba has a homicide rate of 2.16 per 100,000 womenCompared to the record of gender-based murders in 2022 published last year by the Gender Equality Observatory of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Cuba Index ranks sixth in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In presenting the National Observatory, the Attorney General of the Republic, Yamila Peña Ojeda, said: By 2023, 75% of gender-based violence will occur in the homeThe trend is expected to increase by 2024. He said that among the victims, 72% were between the ages of 25 and 59, while in 45% of the cases, they were unpaid workers.

Likewise, the official explained 84% of the perpetrators were the victim’s partner or ex-partner; 46% had a ninth-grade education; 60% were not in an employment relationship; 31% had a criminal record For acts of violence.

Peña Ojeda recognizes what has been repeatedly revealed by Cuba’s Yo Sí Te Creo Gender Observatory and Alas Tensas magazine: dominance; in most cases, attacks are motivated by disagreements over broken relationships; ordinary children are used to inflict more pain; and there has also been an increase in the use of knives or firearms in homicides.