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The official spokesperson Humberto López Suárez once again starred in one of his typical exercises in propaganda disguised as sarcasm, this time at the expense of the exile of opposition figure José Daniel Ferrer García, who arrived in Miami on October 13 accompanied by his family, after years of imprisonment, repression, and torture under the custody of the Cuban regime.
Far from showing even the slightest sensitivity or objectivity towards the tragedy of forced exile—denounced by multiple international organizations as a serious violation of human rights—López Suárez chose to play with words and publicly mock the event.
In a post on his , the host of television programs controlled by Counterintelligence compared the terms used by the Cuban regime’s Foreign Ministry to “report” on the exile of Ferrer and his family with those used by CiberCuba:
“Royal Spanish Academy: ABANDONMENT: exit, departure, leaving, distancing, renunciation, desertion, nonsense. EXILE: isolation, confinement, imprisonment, lockdown. So?” asked López, sharing images of the MINREX announcement and the note from CiberCuba “Cuban regime comments on the exile of José Daniel Ferrer.”
The message, in addition to grossly distorting the facts and their meanings, insinuated that Ferrer's departure was not an exile but a "desertion," in a childish and despicable attempt to undermine the value of his struggle and delegitimize his exit from the country, along with the futile effort of a discursive strategy to sow doubt, discredit, and ridicule.
The Cuban regime officially confirmed, through a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX), that Ferrer's departure occurred at the request of the United States government and with the consent of the opposition figure himself, who publicly stated that he made that decision under extreme pressure to protect his wife and children. It was not a free choice; it was an imposition dressed up as a procedure.
As if the semantic cynicism were not enough, López Suárez once again brought up the old manipulated video that the propaganda apparatus has repeatedly used in an attempt to ridicule Ferrer: the one where he allegedly hits his head against a table during a State Security interrogation.
This material, widely questioned for its authenticity and for being taken out of context, was revived on social media profiles of those known as “ciberclarias” (agents serving the regime's manipulation and disinformation campaigns) with low-quality memes.
All of this content, which circulated among accounts aligned with the government, aimed to reinforce the narrative that Ferrer is a fraud, a "madman," or a foreign puppet, perversely trivializing the years of imprisonment, beatings, isolation, and death threats he has endured.
The moral character of Humberto López Suárez has once again been exposed: a communicator at the service of State Security who uses his visibility to belittle, disrespect, and dehumanize dissent. His behavior is not journalistic; it is an extension of repression with a television face.
Meanwhile, Ferrer is already on U.S. soil accompanied by his family, in a new phase marked by the dignity of the one who resists, and the harsh reality of being forced into exile.
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