A Cuban émigré known on TikTok as Mulatacha (@vidaconyaliris) posted a video yesterday in which she firmly responds to those who accuse her of having "taken the cola of oblivion" after she refused to send money to a stranger in Cuba who demandé between 50 and 100 dollars with a "fixed fee" included.
The trigger was a message from a woman on the island who contacted Mulatacha without any prior connection to her. “You cannot ask me for even fifty or a hundred pesos, first of all because you and I didn’t study together, we didn’t grow up together, and we have no blood ties that connect us”, said the content creator in the three-minute and 39-second video.
When Mulatacha explained her reasons for being unable to send the money, the stranger would not accept it. "Just now she wrote to me again: when are you going to send me the money? Remember I told you it was fifty or a hundred pesos. Folks, you have to put a stop to this," she recounted, visibly upset.
The Cuban woman made it clear that her refusal does not stem from indifference but from a specific economic reality. "For example, I am a single mother who has to work a lot and exhaust myself working to provide for my daughter’s needs, to pay for my car, and to cover my bills. I won’t knock on anyone's door to ask for help with that," she explained.
One of the most direct points of the video was its criticism of the perception many Cubans on the island have about life abroad. "People in Cuba think that once you're here, you have an obligation to send money. You all, on the first of the month, if you don’t pay the rent, no one is going to kick you out, no one is going to take your car if you don’t pay for it. You have no idea what any of that is like. The truth is, you live in a parallel universe," he pointed out.
He also pointed to the responsibility of Cuban travelers who go to the island and create unrealistic expectations about the standard of living abroad. "It is the fault of the Cubans themselves who go back and forth to speculate, and when they return, they are deeply in debt," he stated.
The phenomenon depicted by Mulatacha is not new. In March of this year, another Cuban in the United States erupted over the constant requests from family members who only contacted her to ask for money. In December 2025, a Cuban recorded a video clearing snow from his car to explain that money doesn’t fall from the sky. And in July of last year, Cuban Maylay Carmona had already debunked the myth of the forgotten Coca-Cola on the same platform.
The debate intensifies in the context of the deep economic crisis facing Cuba, where the regime has turned desperation into a remittance business while millions of families rely on money sent from abroad to survive.
Mulatacha concluded her message uncompromisingly: "Take the video however you want, get annoyed, roast me, criticize me, but this is my way of thinking, and that's that."
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