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The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, went viral again by sharing a message from a user that links the hope for a free Cuba with the story of her emigrant mother.
Through his account on Truth Social, Trump reshared a tweet from internet user Ana María Viso, in which she recounts her mother’s wish—who left Cuba as a child—to see the end of the Castro dictatorship, a post that quickly went viral.
The original tweet, posted on January 8 by Viso on X, said: "For the sake of my 78-year-old mother (very MAGA), who emigrated from Cuba in 1960 when she was 13, it would be an indescribable dream for this to happen."
The message includes the flags of the United States and Cuba.
Trump, without adding his own words, marked the post as endorsed, which increased its visibility and motivated thousands of interactions and shares among users who support a regime change in Havana.
The viral spread of the message occurs in a highly tense geopolitical context between Washington and Havana following the U.S. military operation on January 3 in Venezuela, which culminated in the capture of the dictator Nicolás Maduro and resulted in a realignment of the regional political landscape.
Since then, the U.S. Administration has intensified its political and diplomatic pressure on the Cuban regime, criticizing its prolonged hold on power and heightening economic and political pressure measures.
Trump's post was not an isolated incident.
In recent hours, the leader has delivered important messages aimed at Cuba, including the announcement that "there will be no more oil or money for Cuba" following the fall of the Venezuelan regime.
In that same message, Trump urged Havana to seek an agreement with Washington before it is "too late."
These actions are part of a communicative strategy that supports a profound political change on the Island, aimed at leveraging international pressure to weaken the regime that has governed the country for over six decades.
Viso's tweet also strikes a personal and symbolic chord: the experience of families who left Cuba after the 1959 revolution and have lived away from their homeland for decades, hoping for a different future for the generation left behind, and yearning for the end of a regime that has defined their lives and those of thousands of compatriots.
The viral spread of the message reflects how these personal narratives resonate with broad segments of the exile community and with those in Cuba who seek political change.
Its republication by the President of the United States illustrates how a personal experience of emigration can become a broader symbol of hope and political vindication, at a time when tensions between the United States and the regime in Havana appear to be at their highest in decades.
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