Sandro Castro, the grandson of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, sparked a renewed conversation on social media after posting a new video on Instagram, in which he once again showcased his lifestyle, disconnected from the reality of the ordinary Cuban.
“Good morning, early risers. I’m announcing the movie of the great weekend: ‘The Kristash Man!’,” Sandro said in the clip, emphasizing his role as a provocateur strategist aiming to boost traffic to his content through reactions of outrage and mockery towards his advertising “campaigns.”
With his EFE bar turning into an increasingly dilapidated dive, the young "entrepreneur and revolutionary" ventures into the world of marketing and advertising, giving a bizarre promotion to Cerveza Cristal, a “luxury” beverage for the miserable purchasing power of Cuban workers.
A sample of his provocative messages was shared by "the king of the Havana nightlife" in his Instagram stories, where he posted the illustration created by designer @ramon8art, on whose poster one could read the slogan "Kristash Beer... for the kids of papash".
While the people face the worst economic crisis in their history, the heir of the ruling caste in Cuba, which has been in power for 66 years, filmed himself in a Havana park performing one of his ridiculous and absurd performances, in which he transforms into a vampire or superhero with one common denominator: an inimitable foolishness, bordering on stupidity.
A can of Cerveza Cristal (355 ml), the same one Sandro often showcases at his parties, costs 0.84 euros in stores like Supermarket23, which is equivalent to about 302 Cuban pesos on the informal exchange rate (this Sunday 1 EUR = 360 CUP). This amount represents nearly 15% of the monthly minimum wage in Cuba, set at only 2,100 CUP.
Normalizing rampant inequality, indifference towards poverty and social exclusion, and the rise of an "oligarchy" linked to the power of the totalitarian communist regime is one of the major challenges that the "continuity" of Miguel Díaz-Canel is attempting to address, a "leader" who claims not to have renounced socialism, but rather to be “perfecting” it.
For this purpose, the leader has made fervent appeals for the use of Artificial Intelligence and, it seems, the result of his experiments has been the emergence of a new jester with a sinister soul and a stuffed toy's intellect who, sheltered by the "prestige" of his surname, performs acrobatics and exposes himself to those who believed the tale of “the revolution of the humble, with the humble, and for the humble”.
Despite the public rejection it has generated on multiple occasions, Sandro continues to flaunt his exclusive lifestyle. For many Cubans, his posts are not mere eccentricities, but provocations that highlight the disconnect between the privileges of the children of power and the everyday hardship of the majority.
But the dictator's grandson continues to lack common sense and expands the catalog of his antics, encouraged by Counterintelligence and scientifically endorsed by the author of “creative resistance,” who listens to the AI installed by Alejandro Castro Espín on his computer, following the orders of the Great Programmer of the Foot in the Stirrup.
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