Havana/Yunierkis Gómez Lozano, 43, died in the municipality of Cumanayagua, in Cienfuegos, after falling from a roof after struggling with his partner and father of his two teenage children, who then committed suicide. The fact was confirmed this Sunday by the Alas Tensas Gender Observatory (Ogat).
The organization reported that it managed to document a history of violence within the couple “extending for years, which confirms the feminicidal context of the woman’s death.” As for the two children who are orphaned, the Observatory reported that they are a girl and a boy.
In its report, the NGO also reported that it is investigating 22 possible femicides and eight attempts during 2025 and 2026.
With this case, there are 36 femicides registered by 14ymedio in the year, and the third in July, after the case of Dayana Borges26 years old, who was murdered by her partner and father of her two minor children on July 1 in the house they both shared in Central Havana, and that of Yolexis Virgen Arias Orocene54 years old, who died on July 5 in the Camagüey hospital, “where she was fighting for her life since she was attacked with a knife by her partner on June 29.” The event was confirmed last Friday by the Observatory, which indicated that the 27-year-old attacker was in police custody.
She was murdered by her partner and father of her two minor children on July 1 in the house they both shared in Central Havana.
The Alas Tensas count rises to 40 deaths, 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.
In most of the attacks confirmed by the Observatory in the year, the same pattern of brutality, closeness of the aggressor to the victim and lack of institutional protection is shown.
In this regard, an analysis by typology of the femicides verified in 2025 by Alas Tensas shows that 83.3% of the murders recorded last year were committed by the victims’ partners. “The persistence of gender violence in the area of emotional relationships is confirmed as the main risk scenario,” he indicates.
83.3% of the murders recorded last year were committed by the victims’ partner
Likewise, it states that “the marked concentration of femicides of partners and ex-partners indicates that the home and intimate relationships continue to be spaces of high vulnerability, in a context where unequal power relations persist and where institutional mechanisms of prevention, protection and care are insufficient or non-existent.”
Since 2019, the year the Alas Tensas Observatory was founded, 355 femicides have been recorded in Cuba. The year with the most cases was 2023, with 90.
“This monitoring is carried out in an adverse context, marked by the precariousness of resources, the criminalization of independent activism and the absence of official public records. Documenting femicides, accompanying families, requesting information or reporting the lack of institutional protection can lead to harassment, smear campaigns or reprisals,” the organization notes.
