A video featuring previously unseen footage from a private party attended by Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel and his wife, Lis Cuesta, was unveiled by América TeVe.
The material, presented by journalist Mario J. Pentón, shows a private party held in 2018 at the Rancho Palco restaurant, located in the Siboney neighborhood of Havana, where the wedding of the daughter of the late commander Juan Almeida Bosque was celebrated.
The video shows Díaz-Canel and his partner Lis dancing to the music of Juan Guillermo Almeida, another son of Juan Almeida, who has been dedicated to singing for years and has his own orchestra.
Two descendants of the Castro family were also present, known to the Cuban people for their love of luxury and entertainment: Antonio Castro, son of dictator Fidel Castro, and Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, known as "El Cangrejo," grandson and bodyguard of Raúl Castro.
The video is a showcase of the opulence in which the upper echelons of power in Cuba live, while the Cuban people struggle to survive amid increasingly severe shortages.
"They say there's plenty of beer left; if not, Masique will bring more. There’s no shortage of it," said Juan Guillermo from the stage to the applauding audience.
Fine sweets and expensive drinks were served on elegant tables, while the singer took the microphone without hesitation to request euros.
"And repeat after me: health, love, euros!" he shouted.
At the party were also Díaz-Canel's stepson, Manuel Anido Cuesta, as well as Berta González Hernández, the wife of Commander Almeida and mother of Juan Guillermo.
According to Mario Pentón, the video was brought out of Cuba by a person who entered the United States through the border with Mexico, after traveling through Central America.
"The one who dared to leak them wants the Cuban people to see how their leaders live, those very same leaders who constantly ask for sacrifices from the people," noted the journalist.
This video emerges just a month after the Mexican newspaper El Universal published images of Díaz-Canel and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador celebrating at a private dinner with the Faílde Orchestra, while the Cuban people were reeling from the explosion at the Saratoga Hotel.
"With mambo, trova, and danzón, AMLO dines privately with Díaz-Canel, president of Cuba," titled the Aztec newspaper in its report about the reception, which took place just 48 hours after the great tragedy in which 46 people died.
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