Manolín, El Médico de la Salsa, made his strongest statement against the Cuban dictatorship in an interview with CiberCuba: "There’s nothing more to discuss with the dictatorship. They leave, or we will."
The singer, who lived in Cuba for five years after two decades of exile before leaving the island permanently in September 2024, explained that there is no longer any "open door" for the regime's rectification.
When asked who would carry out those "let's go," Manolín replied bluntly: "Unless Trump does it, I don't see anyone here doing that."
To explain why the Cuban people cannot act on their own, the artist shared a personal anecdote: "In Cuba, you can't even use a weapon. Once I asked, seriously, where can you get a weapon here? And a friend told me: the least of it is the weapon; the problem is that if you ask that again, you're looking at 30 years for asking and 30 thousand for listening."
The conclusion drawn from that experience is straightforward: "They have everything under control. The Cuban people cannot do anything serious. So we need the help of the United States to escape the dictatorship. That is crystal clear to me."
Manolín also noted that Cuba's geographical condition exacerbates the situation: "We are surrounded by a prison and we are dead. The United States must help us escape from this disgrace."
The singer was relentless in assessing the historical balance of the regime: «70 years of absolute power. They had a blank check and squandered it.»
He particularly criticized the government's response to the popular protests: "When part of the people takes to the streets, the solution those animals provide is to unleash the other part to beat them down. As if we were living in the Stone Age. The Taliban of the Caribbean."
That "other part" refers to the Rapid Response Brigades, civilian paramilitary groups organized by the regime to suppress demonstrations, extensively documented by human rights organizations following the protests on July 11, 2021.
Manolín extended his criticism to the Bolivarian axis, questioning whether leaders like Maduro can aspire to build anything: "The first thing they need to do is learn how to speak."
Regarding the regime's claim to represent a "better world," the artist was unequivocal: "Is this the better world that these lunatics want to build? Please. It's an offense. It's an offense to human intelligence."
Manolín acknowledged that historically he always left "a door open" for rectification, but after living five years with the Cuban reality, that hope disappeared completely: "I have always been a critic of the Cuban government, of the Cuban dictatorship. Always. But before I left a door open... Now I returned after 20 years, I spent five years there living through that. And it just got worse. It needs to come to an end now."
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