The Cuban activist Anna Bensi (Ana Sofía Benítez Silvente), 21 years old and residing in Havana, published a new reel on Facebook titled "Reflections from the Diary | Part 3: Unfunny Clowns", in which she openly denounces the defenders of the Cuban regime, despite the escalating repression she has faced since March 2026.
The video, lasting five minutes and 23 seconds, includes the phrase "Communism works in two places: in books and in the bank accounts of those who run it," accompanied by a call for freedom for Cuba and all political prisoners.
The publication occurs in a context of systematic harassment that State Security has maintained against the young woman and her mother, Caridad «Cary» Silvente, since both recorded and disseminated an irregular summons delivered by MININT agents on March 10.
The regime classified that recording as a crime under Article 393 of the Cuban Penal Code — invasion of privacy — with penalties ranging from two to five years in prison. On March 12, State Security interrogated the mother for two hours, warning her about house arrest and prohibition from leaving the country.
On March 25, both were charged and placed under house arrest. Anna described the search she underwent that day: "They checked me all the way down to my hair... I had to take off my hairstyle, my blouse, my pants, they even touched my shoes."
The repression did not stop there. Between April 13 and 14, counterintelligence agents summoned and interrogated Anna Bensi at the Alamar police station and attempted to recruit her as an informant, offering to advance her music career in exchange for silencing her activism.
"“They tried to recruit me,” denounced the young woman, who publicly rejected the pressures from counterintelligence and continued to publish critical content."
On April 21, the regime escalated even further: hacked Anna's WhatsApp and Telegram accounts and deactivated her ETECSA lines, leaving her and her mother completely cut off from communication.
Anna Bensi is associated with the collective «Fuera de la Caja Cuba», founded in early January 2026 in the Cerro municipality by four young individuals around twenty years old, which promotes libertarian thought through art, theater, and videos on social media, and is identified by red caps with the slogan "Make Cuba Great Again."
The group has also been targeted for reprisals: the regime disabled the phones of its members as punishment for publicly supporting Anna, intimidated their families, and threatened parents that their children would go to jail.
Last Sunday, the father of several young members of the collective publicly denounced the reprisals, which include job loss and a ban on leaving the country.
Human rights organizations recorded 231 repressive actions in February 2026 and 277 in March, figures that illustrate the context of systematic repression in which Anna Bensi continues to raise her voice from within the island.
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