The Cuban content creator David Guerra (@yodavid95) posted a video on Instagram in which he reacts with indignation to the sale of liquefied gas in dollars through e-commerce platforms in Cuba.
"You are very revolutionary until the dollars arrive, with the dollars you open your legs. What they have done to Cuba is unforgivable," he said.
The Cuban denounces that the regime uses families remaining on the island as hostages to extract foreign currency from the diaspora.
The platforms Katapulk and Supermarket23 have started selling liquefied gas cylinders of 10 kilograms for 29 dollars, with deliveries available only in Havana and under an exchange model: the customer receives a full cylinder and must return an empty one in good condition.
These platforms generally require a Visa card to complete the purchase, which primarily targets Cubans abroad who want to help their families on the island. They are private businesses. This service is not designed for those living in Cuba with salaries in Cuban pesos.
Guerra succinctly summarizes the regime's logic: "First, ping pong out, we don't want them, we don't need them. Thousands of Cubans left, but their families remained in Cuba. Then everything was priced in foreign currency, everything that was personal hygiene, basic necessities, oil, clothing, shoes, everything worth having is in foreign currency, for whom to pay: those who left."
"The Cuban people who stayed and resisted could never enter any good place, could never have a good pair of shoes, could never buy good clothes, could never purchase anything because all of that was in the dollars that you prohibited," he adds.
The content creator points out that now liquefied gas and nursing homes are added to the dollarized circuit: "They want the ones who left, the Cubans that you (the regime) expelled from Cuba, to pay for it."
The 29 dollars that a bullet costs is equivalent to approximately 15,660 Cuban pesos at the informal exchange rate, an amount that is unattainable for most workers on the island, whose average salary hovers around 15 dollars per month at the informal exchange rate.
Gas is imported from the United States by Cuban small and medium-sized enterprises that operate with licenses authorized by the U.S. government, in what is already being described as a new million-dollar business that takes advantage of the collapse of state supply.
The accelerated dollarization of the Cuban regime now includes nearly 30 state-owned gas stations that sell fuel exclusively in foreign currency since 2024, ETECSA telecommunications since May 2025, and now liquefied gas, the essential fuel for cooking in millions of Cuban households.
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