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José Daniel Ferrer García, leader of the Cuban Patriotic Union (UNPACU), denounced the double standards of the Cuban regime this Friday in a powerful message published on Facebook.
The opposition leader asserted that while the Cuban government falsely accuses peaceful opponents of being "CIA agents" in order to imprison or exile them, it also receives the director of that agency in Havana.
Ferrer’s post responds to the visit to Cuba by the CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, who led a U.S. presidential delegation that arrived at Jose Martí International Airport on Thursday. This is one of the highest-level contacts between Washington and the Cuban regime in decades.
Ferrer, exiled in Miami since October 2025, began his message by mentioning the case of Sissi Abascal, a Lady in White who was released from prison and transferred to Miami on Thursday after being forced to choose between exile and remaining incarcerated.
"It turns out that Sissi Abascal is forced into exile by tyranny. Exile or hellish imprisonment. Peaceful pro-democratic opponents are imprisoned and expelled from our homeland, and the communist dictatorship falsely accuses us of being CIA agents... and the Director of the CIA goes to Cuba and meets with the 'pigs of the farm'," wrote Ferrer.
He referred to the regime officials who sat in front of Ratcliffe as "farm pigs", including the Minister of the Interior Lázaro Álvarez Casas — sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act — and Brigadier General Ramón Romero Curbelo, head of the MININT Intelligence Directorate.
Ferrer reserved a special message for Miguel Díaz-Canel, who was not present at the meeting: «Well, Chancho Díaz-Canel was not there. And he still may not have realized that he will be the pig to roast».
The regime itself confirmed the meeting through an official statement on the website of the Communist Party of Cuba, indicating that it was Washington that requested the meeting.
The CIA director brought to Havana the message from Trump: the U.S. is willing to engage in dialogue, but only if the regime makes "fundamental changes."
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio was more forceful in statements to Fox News. "Cuba has a broken, non-functional economy, and it is impossible to change. I don't believe we can change Cuba's trajectory while these people are in charge."
In another message published this Friday, Ferrer stated that the U.S. has “all the moral, legal, military, economic, and political strength” to put an end to the Cuban regime, in direct reference to the news that the Department of Justice seeks to criminally charge Raúl Castro for the downing of two planes from Hermanos al Rescate on February 24, 1996.
Ferrer’s denunciation is part of an intense international campaign that he has been conducting since early May.
On May 5, he appeared before the European Parliament in Brussels, where he denounced "the worst crisis in modern history" of Cuba. On May 11, from Warsaw, he stated that the regime "will not survive this year."
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