While millions of Cubans are surviving without electricity, water, and food, the regime launched this Sunday in several provinces of the country its campaign "My Signature for the Homeland", presented as a spontaneous movement of civil society, but organized and directed by the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) as part of the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Playa Girón.
The pattern was identical in each territory: days of "voluntary work" for food production, readings of letters of complaint against the United States embargo, and acts of "revolutionary reaffirmation" presided over by the highest authorities of the PCC and the provincial governments, all delivered with the solemnity and ridiculousness inherent in Cuban official propaganda.
In Isla de la Juventud, the mobilization was called by the Municipal Committee of the Central Workers' Union of Cuba and culminated with a "patriotic climax" —the exact title from the Cuban News Agency—: the reading of a letter that symbolizes "the unity and the peaceful vocation of the Cuban people."
In Santiago de Cuba, the event took place at the Guillermón Moncada Stadium, led by the highest authorities of the PCC and the provincial government, where a resident of the Los Hoyos neighborhood stated that signing today is an act of responsibility towards history and towards the present and future of the nation.
The "revolutionary show in Guantánamo featured dozens of people who harvested tomatoes at the El Paraíso farm in the Arroyo Hondo Productive Pole, located 12 kilometers southeast of the city, during an event presided over by Yoel Pérez García, first secretary of the PCC in the province, and Governor Alis Azahares Torreblanca. In Holguín, the reaffirmation event took place at Calixto García Park with the presence of Major General Eugenio Rabilero Aguilera, head of the Eastern Army, just in case anyone had any doubts about the event's strictly "voluntary" nature.
The campaign supports the Revolutionary Government's Declaration "Girón is today and forever," issued on April 17, which proclaims that "Cuba will never be a trophy, nor another star in the American constellation." President Miguel Díaz-Canel launched the initiative by signing first at the central event in Ciénaga de Zapata, Matanzas, convinced, as he had stated a day earlier, that "we will always prevail"… even if there is nothing to eat, as quickly completed on social media.
Díaz-Canel himself recognized last Wednesday that there is absolutely no fuel for almost everything in the country. The power outages affect more than half of the national territory daily simultaneously, with cuts lasting over 20 hours each day. The economy has contracted by 23% since 2019, with a projection of -7.2% for this year. the euro surpassed 600 Cuban pesos on Sunday, while the minimum pension is only 4,000 pesos and more than 200,000 Cubans have no access to drinking water.
The dozens of citizen protests in recent weeks reflect the public's frustration, but the repressive mechanisms of the regime, which monopolizes military force, exert a significant intimidating pressure.
This is not the first time that totalitarian power resorts to this mechanism of political legitimization and propaganda through signatures. In September 2025, it carried out an identical campaign of signature collection to support the allied dictator, Nicolás Maduro, in response to potential military threats to Venezuela.
The dissident Manuel Cuesta Morúa described the current initiative as a "farce" and questioned its success due to the "extremely unpopular" status of the ruling Cuban elite, while the intellectual Miryorly García urged people not to participate and warned that signing is an act of irresponsibility that supports the Government's control mechanism.
Attendance lists, forced convocations, threats, and all kinds of blackmail have always been used by the power of tyranny to obtain "cooperation" from citizens in these calls. And the conglomerate of official media immediately amplifies the "climax" of "spontaneous" support.
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