Aliana Laborde Díaz, the mother of a child, was murdered in the early hours of this Monday

14ymedio, Havana, 4 February 2025 — Aliana Laborde Díaz, the mother of a child, was murdered by her ex-partner in the early hours of this Monday at her workplace, a gas station in the city of Holguín, according to the Facebook page La Tijera and confirmed by people close to the victim.
The man’s identity is unknown at this time but some neighbors point to him as her ex-partner. He stabbed Laborde Díaz at her workplace, a Cupet located in the city of Holguín, on the road that goes to the municipality of Gibara. The shift manager “who came to the aid” of the woman was also injured in the altercation. The perpetrator “showed up at the scene and entered the offices of the service center with a knife,” the publication states.
Internet users who knew the victim confirmed on the same social network that the killer died shortly after attacking Laborde Díaz. The man fled the gas station on a motorcycle and shortly after crashed into the facade of a house. It is not known at this time if it was an accident or suicide.
A user who claims to know Laborde Díaz, commented that the woman “had an intermittent relationship with the perpetrator,” who was not the father of her child. “Sadly I knew her, she was my neighbor and my child played with hers,” she wrote.
The femicide of Laborde Díaz follows, this year, that of Elizabeth Ramírez Fernández, which was confirmed in early January by the independent platforms Alas Tensas and Yo Sí Te Creo. The woman, aged around 30, was also attacked by her ex-partner but in her home, in the town of Cacocum, in the province of Holguín.
Regarding the case of Ramírez Fernández, the activists stated that the woman had formally reported her ex-partner to the police for assault at the end of December. In light of this situation, they expressed their “repudiation” of the police “for their negligent actions” in response to the complaint filed by the victim, whose death could have been avoided, even with their “current limited procedures and lack of a gender focus.”
The year 2024 ended with a significant reduction in deaths due to gender-based violence. Independent observatories counted 55 cases, 32 fewer than in 2023, an inventory that presents some differences with respect to the list prepared by 14ymedio for the same period, which includes 54 cases (33 fewer than a year earlier).
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