Genry Alenarez, known on social media as "The Titan of Cuba," a Cuban digital creator residing in Raleigh, North Carolina, publicly joined the campaign "My Signature for the Fatherland" of the Cuban regime, posting a video where he was seen signing with his passport photo and calling on all Cubans, both on and off the island, to do the same.
Alenarez, born on April 27, 1971, in Bayamo and with around 15,000 followers on Facebook, is one of the most active pro-regime promoters within the Cuban diaspora in the United States. On his social media, he shares photographs in which he is seen embracing Miguel Díaz-Canel and Lis Cuesta Peraza.
His video of 19 seconds garnered over 38,000 views, with the message: "Here is my passport photo. The new call is, I sign for the homeland and the Girón is today. Long live Cuba, let us all sign for the homeland. Wherever you are, sign."
The campaign “My Signature for the Homeland” was launched on April 19 by the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), coinciding with the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Playa Girón, with the declared goal of collecting millions of signatures before May 1 to demonstrate national unity against what the regime calls “threats from imperialism.”
Although presented as a spontaneous movement, the campaign is centrally directed by the PCC, with the Young Communists Union as the promoter on social media. Testimonies from Cubans on the island denounce coercion: deception in stores, threats of dismissal in workplaces, and cancellation of scholarships for those who refuse to sign.
In a live broadcast lasting over 11 minutes, Alenarez went beyond mere campaign promotion. He stated that "Cubans abroad and Cubans on the island are promising, in the event that the empire invades us, not to hand Raul Castro a defeat," and asserted that "the Cuban people are speaking today with my signature for the homeland."
With crude language imbued with deep homophobia, the digital creator harshly attacked Cubans in the diaspora who criticize the regime, referring to them as "Miami cipayos," "birds," "cowards," and "little worms."
He also openly celebrated the repression by State Security against the Cuban mixed martial arts champion Javier Ernesto Martín Gutiérrez, known as 'Spiderman' - violently detained and a victim of a beating by the repressors - whom he disparaged and referred to as "the little person."
"They broke the dwarf's face. And now they're in Miami saying, 'repression with the dwarf,'" mocked the self-proclaimed 'Titan of Cuba.'
The case of Alenarez illustrates the regime's strategy of activating its agents and loyal supporters in the diaspora to amplify its propaganda abroad during times of political tension, faithfully reproducing the official messages from U.S. territory.
Meanwhile, inside Cuba, the campaign has generated backlash. Cubans responded with mockery and viral poems such as "I don't sign," and critics point out that the initiative acts as a smokescreen amidst the economic crisis: prolonged blackouts, shortages of food and medicine that suffocate the population.
Alenarez himself, in his broadcast, anticipated that May 1 would bring "signals," referring to the mobilizations that the regime is preparing for that day as a show of strength before the international community.
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