Cuban trans advocate: Government seeks to 'destroy us'

May 20, 2015 | by Michael K. Lavers

www.washingtonblade.com/2015/05/20/cuban-trans-advocate-government-seeks-to-destroy-us/

HAVANA — A Cuban transgender advocate this week sharply criticized government authorities for failing to respond to what she described as a hate crime.

Leodan Suárez Quiñones, who lives in the town of San Juan y Martínez in Pinar del Río, told the Washington Blade on Monday night as she sat along Havana's oceanfront promenade known as the Malecón that local authorities have concluded the murder of Yosvani Muñoz Robaina, a trans sex worker known as La Eterna, on April 25 was a "crime of passion." She said they reached that conclusion in spite of reports from local LGBT advocates that indicate six teenagers stoned her to death.