The grandson of the dictator Fidel Castro, the "young revolutionary" Sandro Castro, stirred up controversy on social media again with a new video filled with irony, double meanings, and direct references to the food scarcity and economic collapse affecting Cuba.
In the recording, published on his social media this weekend, the influencer appeared digging a hole in the ground, which seemed to be a symbolic grave, while discovering basic goods — chicken, oil, powdered milk, and lemons — along with a sex toy, combining humor, criticism, and sarcasm to depict the daily misery on the island.
"Ah, you saw Magnolia, I told you that you and I were going to do volunteer work and honor sister agriculture..." he began, with a mocking tone, evoking the propaganda rituals of the regime's agricultural work.
Minutes later, the young man exclaimed with joy, "My favorite bird, chicken. Today we're having fried chicken with some beer, Magnolia!" as he displayed a tray of meat.
Next, he launched one of his most provocative statements: “But I need to check El Toque for that,” a sarcastic reference to the independent media outlet El Toque, which publishes the informal dollar rate in Cuba and has recently been accused by Sandro and spokespeople from the regime itself of “inflating the currency” in the black market.
Throughout the video, Castro parodied the daily life of Cubans, who must survive amidst long lines, inflation, and blackouts, mocking the products that can now only be obtained in dollars at small and medium enterprises or the informal market.
"Oil, the slippery one; otherwise, my partner doesn't come in or settle... The milk has arrived, how nice to slather you all over... in powder, the kind that's not visible!" she said with laughter, mixing sexual innuendos with food shortages.
The most talked-about moment came when he found lemons in the hole and declared, looking at the camera: “I knew that the base of everything must not be missing: some little lemons to make a fresh lemonade”.
The seemingly innocent phrase is a direct jab at the appointed ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel, who in 2020 stated that “lemonade is the foundation of everything”, which has since made him the subject of memes and national ridicule.
The scene continued with a plea as absurd as it was symbolic: “Please, bring me a yuma or lower the dollar, let good things come, my God.” With this, the grandson of the man who prohibited the market economy mocked the partial dollarization of the economy initiated by the "continuity" government.
The video concluded with a phrase as provocative as it was intentional: “We are going to stay and live here. This is our underworld. From now on, this is going to be my gao. This is my home.”
The expression referred to the revolutionary slogan of the sixties —“Fidel, this is your home”—, but Sandro transformed it into a sarcastic declaration of defeat or confinement: the grave turned into a home, a metaphor for a country sunk in its own collapse.
Sandro Castro's new "initiative" comes just days after he blamed El Toque for the rise of the dollar and proposed creating a "business association" to "work together and curb inflation".
His speech, a mix of immaturity, privilege, and cynicism, has elicited divided reactions: some accuse him of mocking the people his family impoverished, while others see his gestures as a veiled critique of the system that protects him.
The truth is that, straddling parody and provocation, Sandro seems to revel in the impunity bestowed upon him by his surname, aware that he can say and do what others do not dare to.
His humor, laden with sexual, religious, and political allusions, functions once again as an X-ray of the Cuban absurdity: the dictator's grandson laughing at the misery his own blood helped to create.
Five years after Díaz-Canel declared that "lemonade is the foundation of everything," lemons continue to be a symbol of mockery and despair, and now also of the unintentional satire of an heir who is digging —both literally and metaphorically— his own grave within the national collapse.
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