A group of Cuban influencers, artists, and activists, including many from the diaspora, made a public appeal to President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to support the freedom of Cuba, in a video that has circulated widely on social media.
The call was led by the comedy duo Los Pichy Boys, who posted a video in English on Facebook directly tagging the accounts of Trump and Rubio, with the message: "we respectfully ask President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help us reclaim our homeland so that together, all Cubans here and abroad can make Cuba great again."
Alongside Los Pichy Boys, members of the collective Fuera de la Caja Cuba are participating, including journalist and activist Anna Bensi, Elieser "El Bayardo", journalist Amelia Calzadilla, and actor Roberto Sanmartín, exiled in Spain since 2005, among many others.
In the video, Cuba is described as an island "held hostage by a dictatorship" where there is no freedom of expression, private property is not respected, and blackouts are part of daily life.
"In Cuba, there is no freedom of expression. In Cuba, you can go to jail for thinking differently. In Cuba, you work your whole life and still live in misery," claim the influencers.
The video points out that in Cuba there are hundreds of political prisoners, including minors, and that the scarcity of food and medicine is part of the daily life of the Cuban people.
"It is not just a country trapped; it is a people forced into silence. It is a mother saying goodbye to her child without knowing if she will ever be able to hold him again," express the Cubans who participated in the video.
The message concludes with a direct reference to President Trump's slogan: "We want a free Cuba. We want a prosperous Cuba. We want to reconnect with our land. We want to go back home, and we want to see Cuba great again."
The call comes at a time of high anticipation within the Cuban exile community regarding statements from the Trump administration about the future of the regime.
In January 2026, Trump claimed that the Cuban regime would collapse "very soon" after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, Havana's main economic ally. In March 2026, he went on to say that "Cuba is next."
For his part, Rubio hinted at exciting updates about Cuba on Hannity's program on Fox News earlier this month, linking the end of the embargo to a change in regime.
The collective Fuera de la Caja Cuba, one of the most active in documenting repression from within the island, has faced a systematic response from the regime: on March 26, the authorities disabled the phones of its members as retaliation for supporting Anna Bensi during her summons before State Security.
Bensi, 21 years old, was formally charged and placed under house arrest with restrictions on leaving the country. On April 9, she also reported the , which she attributed to technological pressure from the regime.
The Pichy Boys had already urged Cubans to trust Marco Rubio on April 10, asserting that "freedom for Cuba is near" and that "our day is coming," in a post that directly tagged the Secretary of State.
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