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Miguel Díaz-Canel published a text titled "Cuba does not threaten, Cuba is constantly threatened" on his official Facebook account this Wednesday, and the response from Cubans turned the post into a gauge of popular rejection of the regime: hundreds of comments, nearly all filled with mockery, indignation, and calls for his resignation.
In the Facebook post by Díaz-Canel, the president stated that "to label Cuba as a threat is, first and foremost, cynical," and concluded with the phrase: "Cuba does not threaten, nor does it challenge, but it does not fear either."
The post garnered thousands of reactions within a few hours, and the comments section was flooded with Cubans responding with irony and despair.
The most circulated comment was straightforward: "Get ready, your outfit has already been purchased," referring to the gray Nike Tech Fleece tracksuit that Nicolás Maduro was captured in during January 2026, and that very same day Marco Rubio was seen wearing on Air Force One en route to China, which many Cubans interpreted as a symbolic message.
Dozens of users echoed variations of the same message: "Tick tock tick tock," "Count your days," "Pack up, you're leaving," "Start packing your bags."
Several people asked Díaz-Canel to say the so-called "magic words" — "Come for me, cowards" — in a mocking reference to Maduro before his capture.
But not everything was irony: many comments reflected the exhaustion of those living through the crisis on the island.
"I wake up every day with the sorrow of living in this country, which is draining us physically and mentally, watching how the leaders, from the smallest to the highest, live like kings, while all we want is to live with dignity from our work, and that is not possible," wrote a user.
Another person reported, "I have been without water in my house for four months; how much longer will this last?"
A third person was more emphatic: "We've been without power for over 24 hours. How much longer?"
There was also someone who dismantled the central argument of the post with precision: "This statement is not a serious analysis, it is political propaganda. It deliberately omits decades of documented facts and reduces a complex situation to a simplistic narrative of 'victim and aggressor'."
Others recalled episodes that contradict the official narrative: the Missile Crisis of 1962, the shooting down of the Brothers to the Rescue aircraft, the sinking of the tugboat 13 de Marzo, and the Cuban spies operating on U.S. territory for decades.
"I don't see you as brave as when you gave the order to combat the protesters on July 11. Tick tock tick tock," wrote another commentator.
Díaz-Canel's post comes at the moment of highest tension between Havana and Washington since the Missile Crisis. In recent days, Trump has threatened to deploy the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier off the Cuban coast, while Marco Rubio announced sanctions against GAESA and 12 regime officials, accumulating more than 240 sanctions against Cuba since January 2026.
The pattern repeats: each official publication by Díaz-Canel becomes a release valve for a people who have no other space to express their frustration.
"You say Homeland or Death; we want a homeland, you keep the death. That’s how and only then will you pay for everything you have done to the Cuban people," a commentator summarized what thousands of others expressed in various ways throughout the thread.
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