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FROM
CUBA
Women's organization denounces violence
against women
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba - April 26 (Virgilio
Delat, APLO / www.cubanet.org) - Sixteen
women were murdered and 20 others were left
wounded in 2005 alone in the municipality
of Palma Soriano, a not-particularly-populous
municipality in eastern Cuba, according
to a recent report by the Latin American
Federation of Rural Women (FLAMUR).
The report condemns the murders, which
are not exclusive to any one area, but are
widespread through the island and have been
on the increase these last few years.
The report focuses on a case it calls typical,
that of 21-year-old Lisbet Matos, who was
murdered September 10, 2005 by Yorlandis
Torres. Torres stabbed Matos 27 times, according
to the forensic report, and wounded her
son Ronald and her grandmother Isabel Hernández
in the fracas. On April 7, Torres was sentenced
to 27 years in prison, and would be eligible
for release after serving half his sentence.
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