The Cuban doctor and activist Daycee Zamora, currently residing in Uruguay, published a video on Instagram in which she directly confronts the Frente Amplio (FA) and demands that they stop speaking on behalf of Cubans and acknowledge that a dictatorship exists in Cuba.
"My name is Daisez Zamora and I am Cuban. I have been living in Uruguay for several years now, and to this day I cannot understand why the majority of the voters of the Frente Amplio maintain that ideological and diabolical romance they have with the Cuban dictatorship," she says at the beginning of the message.
Zamora directly addresses the stance of the ruling party, which systematically avoids the term "dictatorship" to refer to the Cuban regime and defends the principle of "self-determination of peoples."
"What kind of self-determination do we Cubans have? Because for the past 70 years, we Cubans have not been able to choose what to wear, what to eat, what to put on our feet, where to go out, who to associate with, or where to live," he asserts emphatically.
The young woman rejects the idea that politicians and public figures from the FA occupy spaces on national radio and television to deny the nature of the Cuban regime: "Stop advocating for us, stop being entrepreneurs of our words that nobody has asked for."
His description of the reality of his homeland leaves no room for ambiguity: "In Cuba, there is a dictatorship, a dictatorship that is cruel, inhumane, and bloody, and that has Cubans exiled, imprisoned, suffering from hunger, and living an extremely miserable life for the past 70 years."
The video comes just days after the Uruguayan ruling party defended Cuba and issued a formal statement rejecting President Trump's comments about "taking Cuba," describing them as "threats of military intervention that jeopardize the peace of the continent."
The FA also played a key role in March with a visit to Havana led by its president Fernando Pereira, who brought a delegation of about 650 people from 33 countries and met with Miguel Díaz-Canel. Pereira stated at that time that the lives of many leftist activists have been "shaped by the example of the Cuban revolution."
Zamora is not a new voice in this debate.
In April 2025, the Cuban doctor had already revealed the abuses of medical missions, denouncing that the regime retains more than 80% of the doctors' salaries, confiscates their passports, and condemns them to eight years of prohibition from entering Cuba if they decide not to return after the mission.
He is a member of Cubanos Libres in Uruguay, a civil organization of Cuban exiles in Montevideo dedicated to the defense of human rights on the island.
Her voice joins that of Leydis Aguilera, the first deputy of Cuban origin in the Uruguayan Parliament, from the National Party, who in March described the FA's visit to Cuba as "dictatorship tourism" and stated: "Cuba is not the government; Cuba is its people, and the people are suffering."
The previous government of Luis Lacalle Pou also blocked Cuba's invitation to Orsi's inauguration ceremony and openly referred to the regime as a dictatorship.
Zamora concluded his message with a phrase that encapsulates the frustration of the Cuban exile community regarding the FA's stance: "Let us tell our story and focus on Uruguay, where there is plenty to resolve."
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