In Cuba, there are no more doubts. The people are speaking. And they are doing it every night.
Protests against blackouts, pot-banging demonstrations, cries of “Freedom!”, students denouncing hunger in classrooms, residents confronting authorities in entire neighborhoods. And now Morón: a municipality that took to the streets, burned Communist Party propaganda, and once again reminded us that fear can also grow weary.
Meanwhile, in Washington, there is talk of negotiations.
But what little is known comes in dribs and drabs and almost always through leaks or indirect signals. Neither the Cuban regime nor the U.S. administration has provided true transparency regarding what is being discussed or what is being demanded.
The problem is that time in Cuba is not measured in diplomatic communiqués. It is measured in 20-hour blackouts, in hospitals without medicine, and in families who no longer know how to put food on the table.
That's why the question is starting to be heard more and more among Cubans, both on the island and abroad:
What other messages does Washington need to take action?
Cubans in Miami ask for it every day. Cubans on the island shout it in the streets. Protests are no longer isolated events: they are emerging in Matanzas, in Havana, in Ciego de Ávila, in any place where people are left without electricity, without food, or without patience.
The regime is weakened, fractured, and without answers. But like all authoritarian systems, it seeks to buy time. Negotiating pressure in exchange for promises. Political oxygen in exchange for symbolic gestures.
It's an old strategy.
The question is whether Washington is willing to recognize the historic moment that Cuba is experiencing.
Because these windows do not stay open forever.
Today, the Cuban people are losing their fear.
Today the regime is facing increasingly frequent protests.
Today, the Cuban community in the United States demands real changes.
It's now or never.
That’s why the question arises again, inevitably:
What is Marco Rubio waiting for?
What does Donald Trump expect?
Cuba has already sent its message.
He is sending it every night from his streets.
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