This is the third femicide recorded in November, following the case of 28-year-old Yudislaimi Valdés Silediro in Mayabeque.
14ymedio, Madrid, 12 November 2025– Liena de la Caridad Reinoso Ramos, aged just 23, was murdered on 6 November by her ex-partner in broad daylight in the La Conchita neighbourhood of Pinar del Río. The news, which had been circulating on social media for days, was verified on Tuesday by the observatories Yo Sí Te Creo en Cuba and Alas Tensas. This brings the number of femicides committed in Cuba so far this year to at least 36, according to the 14ymedio registry.
Reinoso, a nurse by profession, was stabbed multiple times by her ex-partner, identified on social media as a security guard and son of a senior official in the Ministry of the Interior. Some reports claim that this would have meant favourable conditions for the alleged murderer, who was arrested and taken, without handcuffs, to the police station, accompanied by his father.
Ramos has been praised on social media by a fellow student who describes her as “an excellent girl, very hard-working, loved and respected by all who knew her. I speak from first-hand experience, because I studied with her at the Pre,” he said, before calling for the person responsible to be “punished to the full extent of the law”.
Some reports claim that this would have meant favourable conditions for the alleged murderer, who was arrested and taken, without handcuffs, to the police station, accompanied by his father.
It had only been four days since the second gender-based crime reported in November had been confirmed, the one that took the life of 28-year-old Yudislaimi Valdés Silediro. The femicide took place on the 3rd at the hands of her partner in the home they shared in the village of El Mamey, in San Nicolás de Bari, Mayabeque. The deceased had a young daughter, although it has not been disclosed whether the alleged murderer was her father.
Feminist observatories put the number of sexist murders committed in Cuba so far this year at 40 – four of which are counted as violent deaths by this newspaper – in addition to 15 attempted femicides and three cases that require police investigation: those of Hilda Puig Peña, Nieves Rosa Castrillo Núñez and Fredesvinda Zaida Pérez Poey. They also mention a man murdered for gender-based reasons and four possible new cases that are pending information. “Citizens, reporting these crimes is not a crime,” they urge Cubans.
One of the previous reported cases took more than a month to be confirmed. It was the case of Maidelín Reyes Hernández, allegedly attacked by her ex-partner on 24 September in Camagüey, whose femicide was confirmed on 4 November.
Yo Sí Te Creo en Cuba and Alas Tensas also recalled on Tuesday that it has been a year and three months since Yanara Fernández Méndez disappeared, and there is still no news of her. The 39-year-old woman was last seen on 5 August 2024 in Las Tunas and suffered from schizophrenia, although it was under control thanks to the medical treatment she was receiving and the support of her family, who are even more fearful about what may have happened to her.
With less than two months to go before the end of the year, there have been 16 fewer femicides than at the end of 2024, when there were 52 according to the ‘14ymedio‘ registry.’
With less than two months to go before the end of the year, there have been 16 fewer femicides than at the end of 2024, when there were 52 according to the 14ymedio registry. The number of murders due to gender-based violence on the island is unknown, as a significant number are not reported on social media and the government only provides figures for cases that have gone to trial. Last year, 76 femicides reached the courts, although the dates on which the crimes took place were not provided.
The country is still waiting for a comprehensive law against gender violence, the first steps of which were promised by the authorities for 2026.
Translated by GH
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