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The newspaper Granma, the official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba, published an article titled "Miami Between Surveys and Lies" in which it criticizes a poll conducted by El Nuevo Herald that revealed that 79% of Cubans and Cuban Americans in South Florida support some form of U.S. military intervention on the island.
The survey, conducted between April 6 and 10 by the firms Bendixen & Amandi International and The Tarrance Group, consulted 800 people in the counties of Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Monroe, with a margin of error of ±3.5 percentage points.
Of that 79% that supports the intervention, 36% backs it solely to overthrow the communist government, while 38% supports it by combining regime change with humanitarian assistance.
Additionally, 73% of respondents attribute the crisis in Cuba to the Cuban government itself —not to U.S. sanctions— and 78% oppose any negotiations with Havana without a prior democratic transition.
Granma accuses El Nuevo Herald of deliberately selecting participants to achieve the desired results: "it commissioned a survey with 800 selected individuals, the majority of whom are Republicans and opponents of bilateral relations, to kindly respond that they supported military intervention in the country."
The official newspaper, the spokesperson for the regime, goes further and labels the exiled media as a "little factory of everyday lies", accusing them of a "media bombardment poisoned with hate, contempt, incitement to violence, crime, destabilization, terrorism, and massacre by means of bombs."
The reaction from Granma contrasts with the enthusiasm with which the regime embraced another survey weeks earlier, this one from YouGov, published in March, whose data was favorable to them: 40% of Americans disapprove of the trade embargo against Cuba and 61% oppose a military attack on the Island.
The Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez was the first to amplify this data on March 23, arguing that the "U.S. government ignores its own people". Now, Granma reports that this survey "was attempted to be silenced by the destructive machinery of the war against Cuba."
The Herald's survey, on the other hand, was publicly supported on April 17 by Republican congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, who stated that Cuban Americans are "fed up" and that the results constitute a "green light" for the Trump administration to take military action against the Díaz-Canel regime.
Fernand Amandi, president of Bendixen & Amandi International, also described the results in similar terms.
Survey critics note that its sample —57% Republicans, 17% Democrats and a majority over fifty years old, focused in South Florida— is not representative of the entire Cuban diaspora. However, it does reflect the sentiments of the Cuban American community concentrated in that region, historically the most influential political hub of the exile.
The article from Granma is produced in a context of growing tension between Cuba and the United States under the Trump administration, which since January 2026 has expanded the embargo with an energy blockade that has worsened the already severe electrical crisis on the Island, with power outages of up to 25 hours a day.
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