A video published this Saturday transforms a leaked audio into an artistic performance that reveals the coercion behind the Cuban regime's "My Signature for the Homeland" campaign, igniting a wave of reactions among Cubans who, in addition to mocking, are denouncing pressure and fabricated signatures.
The montage, just over a minute long, is titled "6,230,973 / Just in case you see me on any list, I didn't sign," and was shared on Facebook by the user Eduardo Díaz Delgado.
In the audio, an official from the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) openly threatens civilian workers from the CIMEX company, an institution under military command, if they do not sign as part of the campaign.
"The pledge that was made for the Fatherland to support the country was mandatory for everyone. Those who disagree with this should resign and not work here anymore.", is heard in the audio that has gone viral.
But the official goes further and demands that her subordinates "rectify" and "call to account all their workers," making it clear that in that institution "everything that comes must be signed."
The piece, which lasts one minute and ten seconds, uses that audio as the backbone of a performance in which three young people dramatize the situation as part of a theatrical exercise, a combination that gives new meaning to the material and that social media users received with a mix of dark humor and indignation.
"I had already heard that terrifying audio," wrote Ibia Vega, while Mabel Guevara requested that they "save that audio, so those who forget can listen to it."
Others took the opportunity to denounce their own situation. Marlenys López was straightforward: "They made up my signature." Silvia Quinta added, "I don't belong to the FAL, so there was no 'signature,'" while Daynerys Terry sarcastically remarked that "they collected signatures even in Alaska."
The audio confirms what testimonies from Matanzas, Bayamo, and other provinces documented in April, which is that executives from state-owned companies were pressured to ensure at least 80% of signatures from their employees under the threat of dismissal.
The regime announced on May 1 that it had gathered 6,230,973 signatures, a figure that Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla presented as 81% of the Cuban population.
The books were symbolically handed over to former president Raúl Castro and the current leader Miguel Díaz-Canel at the event in front of the United States Embassy in Havana.
The historian Alina Bárbara López mathematically dismantled that figure, pointing out that in 2002 the regime reported more than eight million signatures with a larger population, making the 2026 result impossible given the demographic collapse.
Additionally, it was documented that the identity card of Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa appears in the official book with only eight digits instead of the required 11. "If even the leaders themselves did not make an effort, imagine the rest of the people," he reasoned.
The My Signature for the Homeland campaign was launched on April 19 by the Communist Party of Cuba, on the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Playa Girón, and was presented as a spontaneous rejection of the U.S. embargo and the sanctions imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump.
The comedian Ulises Toirac summed up the paradox accurately. " A government that prioritizes mobilizations and signatures", while Cuba endures blackouts of more than 20 hours daily and a projected GDP contraction of 7.2% for 2026.
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