Femicides and disappearances of women and girls in Cuba are increasing. There's a demand for the government to declare a ‘state of emergency due to gender violence.’
This motto has gained relevance on the Cuban stage with the recent creation of #MeToo Cuba, an independent project carried by women and LGBTIQ+ victims, survivors, and denouncers of sexual violence on the island.
In this sense, #MeToo Cuba is strengthening support networks, making it easier to carry out a public denouncement or legal lawsuit. “A shoulder, a vital ‘I do believe you,’ that overpowers the ‘You were asking for it’ and its variants in patriarchal societies like Cuba,” they explained. “We want to create a history of #MeToo worldwide and #MeToo in Cuba, our own memory as a way to feel less alone,” they said. “We want to prevent sexual violence with sexual education.”
However, the tweet set off an explosive wave. The hashtag was used more than half a million times in a single day and trended in more than 85 countries, with spontaneous versions in many other languages. movement had been gaining momentum in Latin America for some years in protest against the chilling figures of femicides. Latin America has the highest rate of sexual assaults against women globally.
Alcides’ words were responded to with a missive launched on International Women’s Day which, as the days went by, was read out at the headquarters of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba . In it, the signatories – women artists, communicators, and intellectuals – opposed the accusations made against Kenya and claimed that the ideological stance of the aggressor distorted the magnitude of his violence, “the only reason he has been condemned.
El Tosco – the king of Cuban timba, the master of the flute and Dianelys’ aggressor – died on April 18, 2022, without having been prosecuted and without any Cuban institution responding to the accusations. In November 2022, a group of Cuban women accused the director of the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in Havana, Enrique Rodríguez Toledo, of having sexual relations with teenage students. Testimonies collected bytell how, for almost three decades, the teacher abused his position of power to harass and violate his students. He harassed, raped, and humiliated them. Survivors claim that the abuses were known to the institution and the student body.
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