The youth collective Fuera de La Caja Cuba published a video this Wednesday in which they denounce that the Cuban legal system does not protect the rights of citizens but rather suppresses them, summarizing their message with a phrase: "Freedom is not begged for, it is defended."
The video starts with a direct question: "In Cuba, we are told that there are laws. But did you know that the law itself could be your greatest enemy when it comes to freedom?"
Drawing on the thoughts of the 19th-century French economist Frédéric Bastiat and his essay The Law (1850), the youth argue that the law has only one legitimate purpose: to defend the three natural rights of the individual—the right to life, liberty, and property—rights that exist prior to the state itself.
"Those rights predate the State. So no, the Constitution is not a source of rights. What it does is merely recognize them," they assert in the video.
The collective goes further and directly points to the regime: "When the State kidnaps the law to act in its own interest, theft and censorship become legal."
"If they are a family, they use their law to take the fruits of your labor, prohibit you from starting a business freely, and imprison you if you demand your rights. It's oppression disguised as legality," they conclude.
The video is published just four days after State Security urgently summoned the mother of Karel Daniel, one of the founders of the collective, to a unit of the National Revolutionary Police in Havana.
Last Sunday, Karel Daniel Hernández Bosques reported in a video that State Security agents threatened the group with imprisonment if they continued to publish, and they told them that "it is illegal here not to be communist."
The repression against the group has systematically escalated since February 2026: agents visited family homes posing as friends, MININT threatened Amanda Beatriz's father at his workplace with imprisonment for the youths, ETECSA disabled the phones of all the members, and in April their WhatsApp accounts were simultaneously hacked.
Fuera de La Caja Cuba was founded in early January 2026 in the Cerro municipality of Havana by four young individuals around twenty years old: Karel Daniel Hernández Bosques, Amanda Beatriz Andrés Navarro, Abel Alejandro Andrés Navarro, and Mauro Reigos Pérez.
The collective promotes libertarian thinking through art, theater, and videos on social media, and is recognizable by its red caps featuring the slogan "Make Cuba Great Again," which they also used as a tag in yesterday's video.
In February, Javier Milei shared one of his videos on his X account, amplifying his message internationally, and the collective responded: "Thank you, Javier Milei, for inspiring our core ideals. Long live freedom!".
On the same day the video was published, Amnesty International documented cases of repression against the group and called for an end to the harassment, in a context where human rights organizations recorded 231 repressive actions in February 2026 and 277 in March.
The Cuban regime has a legal arsenal to silence critical voices: Decree 370, Decree Law 35, and Law 162/2023 on Social Communication criminalize expression online, while Article 393 of the Penal Code outlines penalties of two to five years in prison for activists.
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