The opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer García and the activist Yamilka Lafita Cancio, known on social media as Lara Crofs, joined this Sunday in the wave of rejection on social media against the campaign "My signature for the Homeland," launched by the Cuban regime to gather signatures in support of the Revolutionary Government's Declaration "Girón is today and always."
The initiative was launched by the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) on April 19, coinciding with the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Playa Girón. Miguel Díaz-Canel inaugurated it with his own signature during the central event in Playa Girón, Ciénaga de Zapata, Matanzas, and signature books were opened in communities, workplaces, and student centers across the country.
Ferrer García, historical leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) and resident in Miami since October 2025, published a reel over four minutes long on Facebook in which he urged his fellow countrymen not to participate in what he described as a "pamphlet" and "farce" of the regime.
"When you sign that pamphlet, you are not supporting your homeland, you are not supporting your nation, your people, you are not supporting yourself; quite the opposite," Ferrer warned. "The only thing you would be doing is humiliating yourself. The only thing you would be doing is supporting those who oppress you, those who enslave you."
The opposition leader was emphatic in stating that the campaign will not change the fate of the totalitarian Cuban system: "With signatures and without signatures, they're going, they're going to fall soon, we're going to bring them down soon". He also urged Cubans to engage in pot-banging protests, graffiti, defacing communist billboards, and lighting bonfires during blackouts as concrete forms of resistance.
From the Island, Lafita Cancio published an extensive text on Facebook under the hashtag #IWon'tSign, directed especially at those who work in the state sector or study in institutions of the system and feel afraid to not participate. "If you put your signature, vote, or participate in any call from the regime, you are legitimizing repression, political prisoners, and 67 years of economic disaster," wrote the activist.
Lara Crofs was emphatic in describing the mechanism of the campaign: "That false photo is their oxygen. Every signature, every vote, every presence at an official event is a stamp of approval that they use to justify the continuation of oppression." "It's not about suicidal heroism, but about minimal coherence. Don't lend your name or your presence to those who destroy you," she emphasized.
Lafita Cancio was arrested precisely this Saturday the 18th by regime agents, a day before the launch of the campaign, and yet she vehemently opposed the new strategy of legitimization and political control. The activist has a documented history as a victim of repression and harassment: in February 2025, she was arrested while distributing food to homeless individuals, at which time more than 200 thermal packs and 20 liters of gasoline worth 70,000 Cuban pesos were confiscated from her.
The campaign is not the first of its kind. In September 2025, the PCC organized a petition drive in solidarity with Nicolás Maduro against potential military threats from the United States to Venezuela. On that occasion, the Ministry of Education mobilized students and minors under pressure, and the organization Cubalex reported that children were labeled as counter-revolutionaries if they did not participate.
The opposition figure Manuel Cuesta Morúa, speaking from Havana, also described the new campaign as a farce and pointed out that the unpopularity of the government makes any genuine display of popular support unfeasible. Other opposition figures such as Miryorly García and historian Jenny Pantoja Torres joined the call for collective abstention and peaceful resistance.
No signature in favor of tyranny, summarized Ferrer García in his message. "Do not participate in that farce. Their fate is already sealed; they are going to fall, [...] no signature can stop the unstoppable."
The respective publications were supported by hundreds of reactions and comments online, in line with the rejection.
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