"Trump has no idea what is happening in Cuba," says Gerardo Hernández; users respond: "And what do you all know?"

The former spy Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) and a figure in the Cuban regime's propaganda apparatus, published on his Facebook page a critique in which he claims that the President of the United States "has not the slightest idea of what is really happening in Cuba."

According to Hernández, Trump would be "surprised by the resilience of the Cuban people," and he ironically pointed to Marco Rubio as responsible for "misadvising" the U.S. president about the island.

The post triggered a wave of critical responses that countered the official's argument. The most frequently asked question came from user Evys Doce: "And do you know it?"

Lety Martínez was more straightforward: "The Cuban people are not resisting; they are repressed. If we shout, they lock us up."

Vigilio Garcia pointed a finger at the regime itself: "What is happening in Cuba is that you communists are killing us while you live comfortably."

Adrian Gonzalez Salgado added another image of everyday reality: "The people sleep in the dark and in hunger while luxury hotels are being built."

Several comments mentioned specific episodes of popular discontent that contradict the official narrative.

Yuri Samper reminded Hernández: «Your neighbors in Luyanó are in the street banging pots and shouting down with the dictatorship». Igor Borges was even more explicit: «The Cuban people know what they have to do, and they demonstrated it in Morón».

This post is not an isolated incident. Just three days earlier, Hernández had received a similar response when he posted about Cubans who had died in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities: the comments were filled with the counterargument, "What about the deaths in Cuba's prisons?"

The context in which Hernández makes these statements is one of maximum pressure on the regime.

The Trump administration has imposed more than 240 sanctions against Cuba since January 2025, including an executive order signed in January 2026 that imposed secondary tariffs on countries supplying oil to the island, reducing Cuban energy imports by between 80% and 90%.

While the official talks about "resistance," The Economist Intelligence Unit projects an economic contraction of 7.2% for Cuba in 2026, and the population faces power outages of more than twenty hours and severe food shortages.

On April 25, Hernández warned at an event in La Güinera that the United States could invade Cuba but would face a "war of the entire people."

The response from Cubans on their own social media suggests that this community has a very different understanding of its own reality.