The doctor and writer César Reynel Aguilera sees it as feasible for drones from the United States to supply food and medicine to those protesting in Cuba, an initiative that, as he suggests, could be realized thanks to current technological advancements, with devices capable of operating precisely and even connecting to networks like Starlink, unlike the rudimentary methods of the past where supplies dropped from the air did not always reach their destination.
César Reynel made this proposal while analyzing in a live interview with CiberCuba the protests in Morón on March 13 as a qualitative milestone in the history of demonstrations in Cuba. Additionally, he assessed the impact they could have on the landscape of negotiations between the Trump Administration and the Havana regime.
César Reynel, a resident of Montreal since 1995 and author of 'The Caribbean Soviet: The Other History of the Cuban Revolution' (Penguin Random House, 2018), emphasized that something unprecedented occurred in Morón: hundreds of residents stormed and set fire to the municipal headquarters of the Communist Party of Cuba, extracting furniture, documents, and symbols and burning them in the public thoroughfare. "For the first time, they attack a headquarters of the Communist Party, for the first time they identify that enemy," he stated.
The analyst pointed out that the protests erupted the day after the regime publicly acknowledged the conversations with Washington, after weeks of denial. "The protests in Morón occurred the day after the announcement of the negotiations. The regime had denied it with the fervor of those who lie," he said. Díaz-Canel responded on March 14 with a message on X warning: "For vandalism and violence, there will be no impunity."
César Reynel interpreted that tone as significantly more cautious than the "the order is given" that Díaz-Canel pronounced after the 11J protests in 2021. He attributes this change to the trauma caused in the regime by the operation of January 3, 2026, when U.S. special forces extracted Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores from Venezuela without any casualties on their side.
"The Americans came in, grabbed Cilia by the hair and Maduro by the neck, put them in a helicopter, and took them away without any casualties," he described. "Castrismo must necessarily embrace the good life. It must be cautious with its calls to carry out coups, to kill civilians, to repress, and to imprison people."
About the negotiations between Raúl Guillermo Castro Espín —grandson of Raúl Castro, known as "the Crab"— and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, César Reynel was emphatic: this is not about an economic opening but rather a negotiation for relinquishing power. According to reports, Marco Rubio is negotiating the transition in Cuba directly with that regime interlocutor. "The Castro regime has nothing left to offer the United States of America. Nothing. Absolutely nothing," he stated.
The analyst also emphasized the political nature of the slogans in Morón, where the protesters shouted "Freedom!" and "Homeland and Life" instead of demanding electricity or food. According to witnesses, the police in Morón ran away after a barrage of stones from the protesters. "No one is asking for the lights to be turned on, no one is asking for meat to be put on the table. What everyone is asking for is freedom, because everyone in Cuba has realized that the solution is a regime change," he stated.
César Reynel described the process of deterioration of the country using a term from his scientific background: "What is happening in Cuba is an apoptotic process; it is a process of programmed cell death, in this case, programmed social death." He warned that reconstruction will require a prolonged international oversight due to the accumulated "anthropological damage." "Cubans do not have elements of democratic tradition or civilized understanding. We are a very damaged people," he acknowledged.
Last Tuesday, Trump stated that the Cuban regime is speaking with Marco Rubio and that they will "do something very soon." A day earlier, he had warned that there would be an agreement or they would "do whatever we have to do," and later he conditioned that agreement on the departure of Díaz-Canel. Aguilera concluded with an assessment that summarizes his analysis: "I believe that the protest in Morón will be the beginning of many protests in Cuba. It could signal the start of something new, especially if the Trump administration is willing to take advantage of it."
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