Morales Ojeda asserts that the Cuban people are the "main protagonists of resistance and victory."

The Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Roberto Morales Ojeda, celebrated the 61st anniversary of the Revolution's triumph on January 1st with a message in which he described the Cuban people as "the main protagonists of resistance and victory."

"2026 begins, the Year of the Centenary of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz. A hug to our heroic people, the main protagonists of the resistance and victory," wrote the leader on his account on X, accompanying his words with a commemorative image that reads "61st anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution" and "100 years with Fidel."

A pattern of rhetoric disconnected from reality

The words of Morales Ojeda fall into a line of similar messages he has issued in recent months, characterized by an optimistic tone in the face of an adverse reality. In November, he called on the youth to "seize the opportunities", which sparked criticism from internet users who denounced the lack of food, blackouts, and job prospects.

Weeks earlier, he cited Fidel Castro to assert that "the only one who can solve the problems of this country is the Revolution," amid the crisis worsened by Hurricane Melissa. He also defended the "achievements of revolutionary medicine" while hospitals were collapsing and outbreaks of dengue and chikungunya were multiplying.

In December, during the XI Plenary of the Central Committee of the PCC, he repeated the old Party rhetoric about “errors and negative trends”, without offering concrete solutions to the economic crisis or assuming political responsibilities. The reiteration of these messages reinforces the perception that the Cuban political apparatus continues to rely on the rhetoric of resistance and revolutionary epic as a substitute for effective responses to the country’s structural problems.

At the beginning of a year that the regime has dubbed “the Year of the Centenary of Fidel Castro”, the official discourse once again positions the figure of the historical leader as a symbolic axis of legitimization, while the population faces one of the harshest phases in decades of crisis.