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The recent publication of a report from Palma Soriano, shared by CiberCuba Noticias, has sparked a wave of reactions among Cubans both on the island and abroad. The testimony, both heartbreaking and courageous, describes a dire situation: total scarcity, fear of reprisals, extreme misery, and government abandonment. A reality that, as expressed by dozens of users, is not exclusive to Palma, but rather affects all of Cuba.
“They have kept us without bread for up to a week.”
The anonymous whistleblower recounted how the eastern city, once a stronghold of opposition, now lives in fear and in absolute precariousness. “Here they are waiting for someone to rise up so they can imprison them… That’s why no one is rising up, but there is great discontent,” he wrote. He also spoke about the shortage of food, the disappearance of cooking oil, the impossibility of buying drinking water, and a son suffering from HIV who does not even receive a basic diet.
His testimony concluded with a phrase that summarizes desperation and danger: “By reporting and telling the truth, I risk being prosecuted because we do not have freedom of expression.”
"This is not just Palma, it's all of Cuba."
The comments came swiftly. In them, hundreds of people affirmed the described situation and contributed their own pieces to a shared tragedy. "You have only spoken the truth... it is not just Palma Soriano, it is all of Cuba that dies day by day in the most painful and distressing misfortune," wrote M.C.P.
A user identified as N.M.B. was emphatic: “The entire country is in the same situation, or rather, the people… and yet they continue to ask us for ‘resistance’ from an aging and weary population.”
From Holguín to Nuevitas, passing through the west, the testimonies echo the same narrative: hunger, scarcity, blackouts, fear, repression. “Here in the west, there are root vegetables, but they are so expensive that few can afford them,” said M.P.G. “The cemetery is full,” commented another. “What they are doing to us is criminal.”
"It's not life, it's survival."
Despair is also intertwined with the courage of those who refuse to be silenced any longer. “That is the pure reality of the Cuban: pure misery... workers toil for an entire month for nothing,” denounced Y.V. “This does not mean that we do not love our island, no: it is those who govern it. They have everything; it is the people who suffer,” stated M.R.C.
Some, even from abroad, expressed their pain and frustration. “I lived in Cuba for eight years... What they do to that people is a crime, and the worst part is that the world seems to care little,” wrote S.C., a Spaniard with a past on the island.
"The people want freedom."
In the midst of helplessness, a common desire rises: the end of a regime that has delayed promised changes for decades. “Out with the communists in Cuba, Cuba belongs to the people, the people want freedom,” exclaimed N.M.
O as another comment summarized, which became a reflection of many others: “We can’t take it anymore. This is not living, it’s surviving.”
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