More than a thousand Cubans have confronted Miguel Díaz-Canel after stating that Cuba is more democratic than the United States.
The ruler met with young North American pro-Castro visitors in Havana this week and assured them that in Cuba there are no disappearances or murders, and that there is more democracy than in the United States because the Cuban people participate and are optimistic.
Those statements have sparked outrage among Cuban internet users who cannot believe that a leader who has been handpicked to head a country speaks about democracy and participation.
That man needs to stop with so much cynicism, that's enough already. The Cuban people live submissively, they are hungry, lack medicines, and have many more needs, and they don't even have the right to protest about their shortages. Where is the democracy?" wondered a person from Sancti Spíritus on CiberCuba's Facebook wall where Díaz-Canel's words were posted.
"My daughter cannot exercise her right to travel to another country as she pleases, because she cannot get a passport since the Ministry of Health has her 'regulated,' that is, condemned to stay in this country until they want. Where are her rights? It's a shame that one cannot have a direct exchange with this citizen," said a resident in Santa Clara.
Why won't he remain silent? Because he and his surroundings live better than the millionaires in the USA, he will express that there is democracy here and that we are better off than there. Power outages, lack of running water, sewage waters running like streams, no food, no medicine, dirty and resource-deprived hospitals, no public transportation, and the population migrating to the USA by the hundreds of thousands, and nobody comes to live in 'his paradise,' which shows that we are governed by someone ignorant of the reality that the people are facing," said an internet user.
"What insolence this man has, he should think and analyze his words carefully before speaking. The truth is he has serious issues, we will have to refresh his memory of what has been experienced in 64 years on the prison island, where Cubans are indoctrinated from birth and have no right to decide or choose," another one recalled.
Aunt Tata tells stories, it's the same drama from 65 years ago, there are dead, disappeared, exiled, gag law, if you speak out against the government because you disagree with something, they beat you, they imprison you for however many years they want, they watch you at your doorstep and don't let you leave, among other things. Let's stop with so many lies that not even Pinocchio would believe them," expressed a Cuban woman from Miami.
"What right are you talking about when here you can't say what you think because there's a law for everything, you can't peacefully protest because they repress you. Please, I didn't know you and suddenly Díaz-Canel is the president of Cuba. How? That's democracy at their convenience," said a man.
That's why there's no cement in Cuba, because this guy has a tremendous poker face. The way he mocks the entire Cuban people so calmly, what this clown says, not even Machi believes it," said a father.
Several users regretted that American citizens travel to Cuba and meet with the top leaders instead of going out into the streets and talking to the ordinary people.
"The only thing they know how to do well is to lie and try to continue brainwashing the useful fools, leading them to walk through the neighborhoods so they can appreciate the poverty, unhealthiness, and marginality of a country sinking in its own filth," said a Cuban.
"That which he speaks is for export, and the worst part is that many in other countries believe him," another underscored.
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