The lifeless body of the Cuban Yamilet de Jesús Domínguez Torres, who had been missing since last November 24 in the community of Banes, Holguín, was found this Wednesday, according to the dancer and choreographer Norge Ernesto Díaz Blak, well-known on social networks like Noly Black.
“Yamilet appeared in the room of her house,” Noly Blak wrote in a brief message on Facebooka platform that the artist has used to give visibility to the case and raise funds to help the family of the deceased, in addition to managing a reward of 400,000 pesos for anyone who provides information about the woman’s whereabouts.
“They informed me about what is happening in Banes that they are currently digging up the area where she was buried, in the dirt part,” Noly Blak said in a live broadcast without offering more details. In the comments of this and other publications, residents of the community confirmed that police and Forensic Medicine agents were in the deceased’s house.
His family made the corresponding report to the Police a day later and “searches have been carried out by citizens and also by the authorities.”
Domínguez Torres, 36 years old and mother of a minor, was last seen on November 24 at her home, around 11 p.m. reported I Yes Believe You in Cuba on December 5.
Her family made the corresponding report to the Police a day later and “searches have been carried out by citizens and also by the authorities,” added the independent platform, which also explained that the woman before disappearing “was wearing a white housecoat and had recently arrived from the street.
So far this year, 79 women have been victims of sexist violence on the Island, according to the registry of 14 intervene –compared with the list of independent platforms–. The most recent confirmed cases were the murder of Dorka Velázquez Casal, 15 years old, which shocked the rural town of Aguacate, belonging to the municipality of Palma Soriano, in Santiago de Cuba. The platforms monitoring femicides also reported at the beginning of the month the death of Beatriz García, murdered in Bayamo.
The Cuban Government does not produce reports, which implies that the organizations are in charge of verifying femicides due to their management and, furthermore, they do not have data to compare. Added to this is the silence of the official press, which barely publishes these events and in most cases does not classify them as femicides.
Although recently the official media Giron y 26, from Matanzas and Las Tunas, respectively, broke their silence on the matter. Girón acknowledged that seven women were murdered in the province in the first half of 2023. While 26 published that the Las Tunas Prosecutor’s Office, during this year, has opened more than 200 legal proceedings for “threats, injuries, sexual assaults and murders” of women and girls.
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