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The Cuban pilot and former military officer Orestes Lorenzo Pérez published an extensive reflection on Facebook where he dismantles a phrase that is part of the "instruction manual" that the ciberclarias receive to attack Cubans in exile: "Rome pays the traitors, but despises them."
Lorenzo exposes the online accounts that defend the regime, repeating slogans "like a monotonic chorus of cicadas," and counters them with a straightforward argument: it is they, not the exiles, who work for a single master that controls, monitors, and despises them.
"Exiled Cubans live off their work. No one demands that they applaud or support one party or another to earn a dignified living. No one pays them, and no one deprives them of their jobs because of their ideas," he wrote.
The core of the argument is structural: in Cuba, the Communist Party and the State are the same entity, and that entity is the only employer in the country.
"The state owns all means of production—not the people, as the communists try to deceive us into believing—it is the state, meaning the Communist Party. It is the only employer in the country, paying the doctor, the lawyer, the prosecutor, the judge... everyone," he remarked.
Lorenzo recalled that the PCC expels doctors from their jobs if they dare to "make even the slightest criticism of the healthcare system."
Regarding the judicial system, it is clear: it is difficult to distinguish between the defense attorney and the prosecutor because both respond to the same employer, the State, and never to the interest of the individual.
The pilot quotes Fidel Castro to illustrate the origin of the conditioning: "The university is only for revolutionaries," a phrase spoken about 60 years ago that became a requirement for studying a career in Cuba.
"In Cuba, you have to applaud to get a good job. If you're a snitch, the opportunities are even better," he noted, adding that for this reason, "an extremely high percentage of the population pretends to be revolutionary and supports the government" purely out of the need for survival.
The Cuban Constitution of 2019 enshrines in its Article Four the PCC as "the superior political force guiding society and the State" in an irrevocable manner, a point that Lorenzo emphasizes: "The only political party for eternity. If you are not with it, you are against it."
The former military man concludes by inverting the original phrase: "Rome is the Cuban State. Rome is the Cuban Communist Party. The only one that pays. The only one that demands alliance so you can eat."
And it culminates with a definition of betrayal that points directly at those who support that system: "Betrayal is stealing your children's future before they are born."
This publication is part of a series of interventions that Lorenzo has conducted throughout 2026.
Recently warned that those who abused the people will receive "the ruthless fury of the people".
In April, he dismantled the combat capacity of the FAR; and in February, he sent a message to the Cuban military: "Never fire against the people. The homeland is never the government, no matter who it is."
The context in which these words arrive is one of maximum tension: in April 2026, there were more than 1,100 protests in Cuba, a 29.5% increase compared to April 2025, and in March, there were 1,245 protests, the highest number since July 11, 2021.
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