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The recent outburst of digital fury from Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, known as Gerardito PKM following the publication of our article about his theatrical machine gun shooting session, confirms two things: that humor remains the Achilles' heel of the government, and that in the ideological trenches of the regime, the battle is fought with slogans and a lot of damp gunpowder.
Since January 16, the leader of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) has turned his Facebook account into a sort of improvised propaganda news outlet — a kind of CiberDuda News — from where, between edits, he attempts to counteract the impact of our publication.
The first blow came with a post titled “Leptospirosis epidemic detected in the editorial office of CiberCuba,” accompanied by the slogan #CiberDuda and the image of a legion of typing mice. It was the most literal response possible to the discomfort caused by seeing himself portrayed — mattress, Rolex, and PKM included — in his role as “Rambo cederista.”
A dozen publications followed in the same tone: “News from the CiberCircus anti-Cuban,” it scoffed on January 19, mocking a survey about Cuba–U.S. relations. The next day, it took advantage of a headline from CiberCuba ("American after trip to Cuba: I returned from that country with a broken heart") to flip its critical message and return to the lament of the “blockade.”
On January 21, it pointed to Donald Trump, mixing politics and sarcasm with a false headline ("The Thoughts of Donald Trump"), crafted by manipulating what was published by this outlet.
On the 22nd and 23rd, he extended his campaign: he parodied notes about Hialeah and the embargo while portraying the United States as a villain that "suffocates the Cuban people." On the 24th and 25th, he raised the stakes and attempted to appropriate the issues reported by CiberCuba to blame the embargo and attack independent journalism.
The result is a sequence of more than ten posts in just one week, all focused on a single objective: to portray CiberCuba as the “enemy of the homeland,” in an effort to delegitimize the outlet that dared to turn it into a meme.
In his attempt to ridicule, Gerardo ended up revealing what power fears: the cultural impact of satire in times of depleted propaganda.
His CiberDuda is nothing more than an involuntary mirror of the official Circus, where the characters of the old guard are recycled as revolutionary influencers with an increasingly skeptical audience.
The sudden frenzy of publications also has a political reading. It comes amid the intensification of the regime's anti-American rhetoric and warnings from Washington about new sanctions.
Hernández Nordelo, who has been trying for years to reposition himself as a useful figure within the regime, seems to have found in the propaganda push a new mission: to lead a digital guerrilla that blends feigned patriotism, clumsy sarcasm, and low-budget visual resources.
In essence, their offensive is not against CiberCuba, but against reality: that of a weary country, disconnected from the delusions of "defending the homeland," and more concerned about the next blackout and the empty fridge than the external enemy.
His media machine fires bursts of slogans, but the target moves too quickly: humor, irony, and journalistic truth are hard to silence with the underhanded tactics of a mediocre spy.
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