SANTIAGO OF CUBA, Cuba - 26 of April (Virgilio Delat, APLO/www.cubanet.org) - a report on violence against the woman, offered by Catherine Yolanda Pineapple Martinez, president in functions of the Latin American Federation of Rural Women, in its Cuba Chapter, gives account of which only in 2005 in from Soria municipality of Palm 16 women were assassinated and other 20 people were wounded during the happened events.

The most significant case, relates the report, was the one of the young person of 21 years of age Lisbet Matos González, assassinated the 10 of September of the 2005 by Yorlandis Red Towers. The homicide took place by white weapon, and the forensic report indicates that it took 27 hits (stabs). The police report gives account of which during the argument also they were hurt the son of the victim, Ronald Mauro Silveira Matos, and his grandmother, Isabel Hernandez-Cattle tender, who has been with severe neurological upheavals as a result of a wound received in the head.

Yorlandis Towers was the past sentenced 7 of April to 27 years of prison, with right to conditional freedom at the end of half of the sanction. The mother of the deceased, Isabel Hernandez differed the sanction, but Dayamí public prosecutor Tails of the River argued that the sanction had exceeded in two years the fiscal request, and that the average among others sanctioned by similar crimes oscillated between 8 and 15 years of prison.

The report of the FLAMUR condemns the murders of women who have increased years in the last, reason why asked to the judicial authorities that take measures that stop the violence against that so vulnerable sector of the society.

In an official notice that prepares, the FLAMUR notices that the murders of women are made alarming and the situation worsens when a solution immediate to that social problem does not occur, that degenerates in other social complications, as in the Lisbet case: an orphaned boy, his imprisoned biological father and his padrastro and a destroyed family, with a pension by Social Security of 60 pesos monthly, that is to say, less than three dollars to the official exchange rate.

Catherine Pineapple declared that the violence in From Soria Palm and any other place of the country is a totally inadmissible fact, reason why the authorities must deliver a greater attack to create an atmosphere of cordiality and legality in all the country.

It alerted that the red center that it has catch oned with the murders of From Soria Palm confirms that the violence against the women is not exclusive of any city or region of the country.

Those facts are a shame and reflect a serious decomposition of the society and emphasize the attention that will be to occur, from the family, to obtain an equitable treatment between women and men, pointed Pineapple.