A young Cuban has sparked an intense debate on TikTok after posting a video in response to a user who claimed that "Cuba has nothing" and that "that's why the United States isn't interested in it."
His intervention, filled with national pride and frustration at the current reality of the country, has been viewed by thousands of people both inside and outside the Island.
"To say that Cuba has nothing is the greatest inaccuracy in history," the young woman started by saying in her video, published by the account @elixir_karen1994_2.
Cuba is the largest island country in the Caribbean, situated between the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean; it is located 150 kilometers from Florida and holds a strategic position for maritime trade between Europe, North America, and Central America.
In her message, the Cuban highlighted the country's natural and productive wealth: “Historically, we have been one of the largest producers of sugarcane, we produce Arabica coffee, tobacco, tropical fruits, honey, rum, and cigars. We also have biotechnology and healthcare: Cuba was able to develop its own vaccines and medications.”
The young woman concluded her speech with a message of hope and challenge: “Cuba will rise from the ashes like the phoenix, and we will become what we were before 1959. If we are helped to free ourselves, Cuba will take on the world.”
The video went viral just after the military intervention by the United States in Venezuela, ordered by President Donald Trump at the beginning of January, which resulted in the arrest of Nicolás Maduro.
Many social media users compared the situation to Cuba and expressed their wish for a similar operation to take place on the Island to put an end to the regime that has lasted for more than six decades.
"The problem is not that Cuba has nothing, but that it is not allowed to be what it can be," commented a user in support of the video. Others, however, pointed out that the country's natural resources are in the hands of the military regime and companies controlled by GAESA, the economic conglomerate run by the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
In the midst of the economic crisis and mass emigration, the words of the young woman reflect the sentiments of thousands of Cubans who, despite the hardships, continue to believe in the nation's potential if it can free itself from the current political control.
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