Madrid/Yohanka’s body Maconcha Acosta Rodríguez was found during the early hours of last Thursday, on the corner of 23rd and Paseo, in the heart of Havana’s El Vedado, and the fact was disseminated on social networksbut it was not until this Monday that the independent platform Tense Wings has confirmed his identity. The woman was murdered, the organization indicates, by her ex-partner, who is already in custody.
According to the brief report from Alas Tensas, which does not provide the age of the victim, he had two children, an adult man and a girl. With it, there are 27 confirmed femicides so far this year in Cuba, according to the record kept 14ymedio. For the platforms, however, it is number 31, since their list includes crimes against women associated with a motive other than machismo, such as the case of Yarisleidis Saavedra Hernández or that of Olimpia Pérez, a 79-year-old woman who was found dead in her home in Mayabeque, on March 2. The observatory also reports 19 attempted feminicides and the murder of a man for gender reasons.
With it, there are 27 confirmed femicides so far this year in Cuba, according to the record kept by ’14ymedio’
The confirmation of the feminicide of Acosta Rodríguez takes place two days after the tragic case of Lisney Cárdenas Bruzón26 years old and mother of two small children. Attacked on June 3 by her husband, from whom she was separating, the young woman bled to death after more than eight hours of agony, without help from an ambulance arriving.
The crime occurred in La Tomatera, a rural community in the Camagüey municipality of Florida, where Lisney went to the alleged attacker’s house after he called her to “talk,” according to Alas Tensas.
The platform indicates that they are requesting access to the investigation report on the case of Anais Tamayo Puente, and claim to be investigating 20 possible femicides, 7 attempts and another murder of a man for gender reasons, alerted between last year and this year.
