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The Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez published a message on the social network X this Monday, in which he accuses the United States of promoting the separation of Cuban families, directly blaming the current Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and other politicians of Cuban origin for tightening immigration policies against nationals from the island.
"Anti-Cuban politicians, including the U.S. Secretary of State, are determined to further separate Cuban families. The harm caused by their suffocating economic measures is not enough for them. They intimidate, issue threats, and pursue Cuban migrants with ties to their homeland," Rodríguez wrote, accompanying the tweet with a photo of a migrant being detained by ICE agents.
The post generated a wave of criticism from Cuban users inside and outside the island, who reminded the chancellor that the Cuban regime has historically been the main responsible party for the separation of families.
"The dictatorship is the main culprit for the separation of families," wrote a user.
"Decades of criminalization and penalization of all dissent, of massive exodus, of endemic misery, as a result of a failed economic policy. But the 'anti-Cubans' are those who do not support that disastrous regime of the PCC," noted another.
Since 1959, the communist regime has imposed migratory, ideological, and political restrictions that have prevented millions of Cubans from reuniting with their families, leaving or returning to their country of origin. Even today, in the midst of 2025, it continues to regulate the entry of Cuban citizens to the island for political reasons and persists in punishing those who speak out against the system with exile and imprisonment.
"The only ones to blame for separating Cuban families have been you. Since 1959, that damned revolution has been tearing families apart," reads another comment.
Other users recalled the hypocrisy of the official discourse:
"For decades, this great nation [U.S.] has offered us the second chance that the Castro regime has denied us. For decades, we have escaped, and the dictatorial regime has viewed these exoduses as a means of escape from the horrible situation that the Cuban people suffer due to communism, which destroys families and dreams."
The instrumental use of family suffering by the regime was also emphasized:
"The dictatorship highly benefits from the separation and suffering of Cuban families. It's a material gain for them. The rest matters little to the regime: they live off remittances, the rental of doctors, and donations."
"Crying over dollars, as always."
"No one is more anti-Cuban than you."
In short, while the regime blames others, the Cubans continue to live with the real consequences of a system that for more than six decades has fractured the nation, both inside and outside the island, with repression, migration control, and a crumbling economy.
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