Mia Khalifa strikes back: "Diaz-Canel without..."

Since she used the well-known epithet for the Cuban leader in July 2021, every time the Lebanese speaks about the situation in Cuba, social media ignites with messages that mock the possibility of another social explosion, of which the actress would be a sort of thermometer.

Mia Khalifa y Miguel Díaz-Canel © Instagram / Mia Khalifa - Captura de video / Canal Caribe
Mia Khalifa and Miguel Díaz-CanelPhoto © Instagram / Mia Khalifa - Video capture / Canal Caribe

The adult film actress Mia Khalifa, known to many Cubans for the words she dedicated to the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel on the eve of the historic protests of 11J in Cuba, returned to the forefront this Friday.

Through her social media, the Lebanese actress repeated the message she had already sent to Díaz-Canel in July 2021, using the popular epithet by which the leader designated by Raúl Castro is known.

"Díaz-Canel singao," said Khalifa on X (formerly Twitter), sharing a post from Cuban journalist Mario J. Pentón in which he reported on the worsening of the energy crisis affecting the population.

"The island is almost entirely paralyzed by the lack of electricity," Pentón warned in his post, in which he shared a video of Cubans cooking with firewood due to the lack of gas and electricity.

Khalifa, who resides in the United States, was very informed and attentive to the Cuban reality in the days leading up to the protests on July 11, during which she tweeted messages against the government and denounced the poverty and repression that the Cubans were suffering.

On July 10, 2021, the Lebanese woman became a trend among Cuban internet users after calling Díaz-Canel "garbage" for what she considered a poor handling of the epidemiological situation on the island.

"Friend, you are garbage," said the renowned porn actress while offering to help Cuba amid the health crisis the country was facing. Not satisfied with calling the Cuban leader "garbage," Mia dedicated another tweet with the following message: "Good morning to everyone except @DiazCanelB, singao."

The wave of memes generated by her statements angered Palacio, from where the regime's heralds swiftly rushed out to denigrate the actress, including the very recipient of Mia's messages.

"We have to see here how throughout this campaign they turned to all the YouTubers and influencers they could on social media, including a certain artist with specific characteristics, who initially rejected the blockade and then it seems they pressured her and she ended up saying that I am a tyrant, some of those epithets they use against us," Díaz-Canel then said.

Mia did not stay silent and responded to the ruler: "Hey, idiot... No government pays me to spread awareness of its inhumanity towards its people. I do it for free and in my spare time."

"There is the media theme and the warming happening on social networks. Was it present in what happened yesterday or not? We are observing that in recent weeks, the campaign on social networks against the Cuban revolution has increased, raising opinion matrices around the shortages we are experiencing," analyzed Díaz-Canel after the manifestations of 11J.

Since then, every time Mia addresses the situation in Cuba, social media sparks with memes and messages that recall the events leading up to 11J, and joke about the possibility of another social explosion, of which the actress would be a kind of thermometer.

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