In less than 24 hours, the Cuban comedian Ulises Toirac has once again dismantled the government's official discourse on the crisis with irony and insight.
In a new and extensive post published on , the actor and screenwriter has lashed out against the call to endure more sacrifices in a country where -according to him- people no longer live, but merely survive.
Far from superficial sarcasm, Toirac delivers a direct blow to government triumphalism by questioning the legitimacy of continuing to demand effort from those who have already given their all, while others live in a bubble of privilege.
Toirac has focused on what hurts the most: it is not possible to keep asking for sacrifices in a country where millions survive in hunger, blackouts, and inflation, while a minority remains in opulence.
“The personal situation matters, of course," he writes, before summarizing the struggles of many Cubans: “It's already bad eating only once a day, with more power outages than a dyslexic firefly and inflation so high that he spends more on transportation to get to work than what he earns.”
But it doesn't stop at just complaining. The comedian suggests "a little effort" in abstraction to think about the country, although the situation doesn't improve with distance.
The phrase by Díaz-Canel “difficult times will come” is not a starting point for him, but an affirmation that the country has been in crisis for a while and is now preparing to sink even further.
"For two years now, the lack of fuel has been limping along," he notes; and describes how that paralyzes the country: "No one can work where fuel doesn’t allow for movement, connectivity, turning on a computer, or... The wealth is shot."
Sacrifice as Abuse: Inequality Dressed as Epic
The most devastating criticism of Toirac is not technical but moral. It questions the legitimacy of the official discourse that insists on calling for national sacrifice when the majority no longer has anything left to offer.
And it sums it up in a striking phrase: “Sacrifice (it’s about time to say it) is sacrificing life.”
From that point on, what becomes evident is the immorality of inequality, not as a result, but as the starting point of a system that does not share either the pain or the responsibility.
"When there are people in absolute abandonment while others live in opulence that disconnects them from the rest," he warns, the epic discourse loses all authority.
The ignored economy, the disconnected politics
Toirac also recalls how the country's leadership has ignored for years voices, proposals, and ideas that fell outside the script.
“A different opinion was never heard, the opposition was not listened to (which in many, many cases was not contrary to the system but to ‘something’ that was wanted to be imposed)”, and those who warned were labeled as being “in the service of the enemy.”
Toirac counters that disdain for economic knowledge with a simple truth: "Economics is neither capitalist nor socialist; it is simply economics."
He ironicizes with a quote from the singer-songwriter Carlos Varela, whom he immortalizes as "academic": "Politics doesn't fit in the sugar bowl."
The result, he says, is that the current plans are not designed to pull the country out of the abyss, but to buy time, which only exacerbates the damage, "because otherwise... it's just prolonging the agony. And continuing the extermination."
The final warning: when the country can no longer take it
Ulises Toirac is not doing humor... His message is not just a personal outlet: it is a call for collective lucidity.
Today's Cuba is not resisting: it is running out of steam, and insisting on demanding more from the people while protecting the privileged is not governance; it is allowing them to die.
And it is precisely there that he issues his strongest warning: continuing to demand more from someone who already has nothing is not resistance; it is a form of social extermination.
It is to prolong the agony of a country on the brink of collapse. It is to pretend that another ending can emerge from this script, when the movie has long since ended.
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