The influencer known as El Creador Cubano posted a video on TikTok this Thursday in which he appears visibly emotional and in tears, calling for urgent change for Cuba, denouncing that "people are dying of hunger" and begging for "his Cuba" to be returned to him.
The 51-second clip, shared with the message "My Cuba needs urgent change before it's too late. People can't take it anymore," quickly went viral, accumulating over 81,300 views, 8,799 likes, and 476 shares on TikTok.
On Facebook, the same video surpassed 622,000 views, 47,661 likes, and 4,034 comments, becoming a viral phenomenon within the Cuban diaspora.
"Be aware of what they are doing to this country. It hurts me deeply what is happening to my people. Fix this, man; people are dying of hunger, people are suffering," says the content creator with a trembling voice.
The video closes with a heart-wrenching plea: "My heart is breaking. Give me back what I once had, give me back my Cuba, give me back my Cuba."
The Cuban Creator, known for his videos about everyday life in Cuba and street interviews that reflect the reality of the average Cuban, arrived in Miami on January 22, 2026 and has since been producing content from South Florida.
Your message is part of a wave of viral videos in which Cubans —both from the island and from exile— express desperation over the humanitarian crisis the country is facing.
According to the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights, 80% of Cubans believe the current crisis is worse than the Special Period of the 1990s, 89% live in extreme poverty, and 72% identify food as their main concern.
Seven out of ten Cubans skip at least one meal daily, a figure that rises to eight out of ten among those over 61 years old.
A report from the Food Monitor Program, published on April 15, revealed that at least five provinces are experiencing extreme levels of food insecurity —Havana, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Guantánamo, and Santiago de Cuba.
The energy deficit reached 1,885 megawatts in March 2026, with blackouts lasting up to 25 hours a day, while the GDP has recorded a decline of 12.3% since 2021 and an additional contraction of 7.2% is projected for this year.
The regime of Díaz-Canel launched in February the so-called "Option Zero," a contingency plan that promised seven pounds of rice per month per person, but it has not been fulfilled.
Among the recent cases that have also gone viral are a grandmother who confronts the dictatorship asking for help from foreign leaders, a mother in Cárdenas with five children pleading for food, and a man from the ruins of his burned house in Havana who begs for intervention.
The 78% of Cubans want to emigrate, according to the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights, a figure that reflects the extent of the exhaustion of a population that has endured the consequences of 67 years of communist dictatorship for decades.
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