Javier Martín Gutiérrez, the mixed martial arts champion known as "Spiderman", completed his sixth consecutive day of peaceful protest from the balcony of his home on 31st Avenue in Havana, in front of the El Lido terminal, without any authority from the regime coming forward to address him.
In a video posted on Instagram, the athlete —champion of the Cuban Fighting League in the 135-pound category— stated emphatically: "The communist system is dead. You saw the state security, it's you. Look at your faces. No one is coming."
Spiderman reported that the State Security visited his mother, but that no one has come to confront him directly.
He also challenged the psychologist from counterintelligence who was supposedly looking for him to assess his mental state: "The counterintelligence psychologist who was supposed to come looking for me to see if I had any nervous issues hasn’t even shown up. Let him come; I’m going to make him nervous."
The athlete also challenged the authorities to open a debate on national television and pointed out the gap between the reality of the country and what state television portrays: "On your TV, in the soap opera there are no blackouts. In the soap opera, there are no crazies, there are no drug dealers, no drugs, no children begging for money. That doesn’t appear in the news or in the soap opera."
"We continue, 6th day and nothing is happening. They are living off me," the fighter summarized to his followers.
In previous days, Spiderman had intensified his accusations and responded to those who accused him of mental instability: I'm not crazy, I'm tired. I haven't put anything in my body for years. I am very well mentally, physically, and spiritually."
From Miami, rapper and activist Eliecer Márquez Duany, known as El Funky and co-signer of "Patria y Vida", amplified the videos and lamented the lack of popular support: "It has been manifesting peacefully for days and has not stopped asking for freedom; however, it has not received any support from the Cuban people, and freedom is for everyone, but no one is fighting for it."
The activist Anamely Ramos, from the San Isidro Movement, called for "the highest possible visibility" for the case and directly warned the regime: "Are you going to hunt down this young man with your hordes of hired thugs? Know that if you do, the outrageous lie of the one who claims to be president will be even more exposed."
That reference points to the statements made by Miguel Díaz-Canel on April 12 during the Meet the Press program on NBC News, where he denied the existence of political prisoners in Cuba and asserted that no one is arrested for expressing themselves.
The Spiderman protest occurs during the worst humanitarian crisis that Cuba has faced since the Special Period of the 1990s, with blackouts lasting up to twenty hours a day following the cut in oil supplies from Venezuela since January 3, 2026, and with 96.91% of the population lacking adequate access to food, according to the Food Monitor Program.
"The truth is only one. They are afraid," concluded Spiderman in his message on the sixth day, announcing that he will continue his protest.
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