A Cuban living outside the island published a video on Facebook calling for signing the official regime campaign books "My Signature for the Fatherland". The video is part of the campaign launched on April 19 by Miguel Díaz-Canel in Playa Girón, during the event marking the 65th anniversary of the victory at Bay of Pigs, with the goal of collecting millions of signatures before May 1.
In the message addressed to "the Cuban brothers," the woman urged support for the current political system and a rejection of any scenario for change, citing international conflicts such as those in Iraq, Syria, or Lebanon. "We do not want invasion, we do not want a change of system," she stated.
He also urged Cubans to come and sign as a way to show support for the government, arguing that the majority of the people desire peace and economic improvements "within the revolution."
The video has sparked numerous reactions on social media, with divided opinions, although critical comments towards its stance are predominant, especially for making this call from abroad.
Several users questioned the disconnection from reality experienced on the Island. "It’s already too much pain and hunger for an entire people," wrote one internet user, while another stated, "A nation dying of hunger and this thing keeps talking."
There were also those who outright rejected the initiative to sign in support of the government. “Don’t sign, the dictatorship only brings misery to the Cuban people,” commented another user.
The most common criticisms pointed to the severe economic crisis in Cuba, characterized by shortages of food and medicine and an increase in emigration, questioning the promotion of support for the system without acknowledging these difficulties.
Despite Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, presenting the initiative as a spontaneous movement of civil society, the campaign was organized and coordinated by the Party itself, the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Cuban opposition firmly rejected the campaign. José Daniel Ferrer, leader of the Unión Patriótica de Cuba, urged people not to sign: "No signatures in favor of tyranny. With signatures or without signatures, they will go, they will fall soon."
This Thursday, the musician Manolín "the Doctor of Salsa" posted on Facebook: "Do not save your executioners", accusing the government of oppressing the people.
The video of the Cuban abroad follows a documented pattern: that of residents outside the island who publicly defend the regime from capitalist countries, generating controversy due to the contradiction that this implies.
It is not the first time that Lucía Céspedes Ocampo defends pro-regime views, as she did recently by shouting "Long live Cuba, long live my president Díaz-Canel" and calling exiles "traitors and worms," while using money earned in Spain to buy rice for elderly people in Cuba, implicitly acknowledging the state's inability to guarantee basic needs.
The regime, for its part, has a history of mass signature campaigns to simulate popular support: in September 2025 it mobilized schools and workplaces to collect signatures in support of Nicolás Maduro's Venezuelan regime, a practice that opponents and analysts describe as a mechanism of coercion, not a genuine expression of popular will.
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