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The Cuban activist and content creator Anna Bensi (Anna Sofía Benítez Silvente) published a powerful response on her Facebook profile to a user identified as Clev Mindy, who accused her of doing nothing for Cuba or her people.
The criticism, published on a profile that the young woman identified as fake, asked: "Let the Cuban raise their hand if this girl has improved their life in any way," and listed basic shortages that, according to him, Anna must address: electricity, food, medicine, price reductions, transportation, and water.
Clev Mindy added that Anna "doesn't deliver results" and accused her of being "in agreement with Trump that no fuel should enter the country," before ending with the question: "In the end, who gets hurt?"
Anna Bensi's response was straightforward: "I am not responsible for solving anyone's life. It is the State's job to provide the means for that, and it does not do so."
The 21-year-old young woman, a resident of Alamar, Havana, took the opportunity to distance her real profile from the one that launched the attack: "In this real profile (not the fake one that made the comment), I create content with respect, exercising my right to express myself to make it clear that I am openly against the Cuban dictatorship, because it does not represent me nor look out for my interests as a Cuban citizen."
She concluded her post with a nod to her thousands of followers: "If the people who follow me feel represented, well... there must be a reason for it, right?”
Anna Bensi often faces attacks on social media from accounts—often fake—that defend the regime, insult critical voices, and seek to discredit them by arguing that they do not address the specific issues of the population.
The exchange occurs at a time of intense pressure on the influencer.
Since March 26, she and her mother, Caridad Silvente Laffita, have been under house arrest and prohibited from leaving the country, charged under Article 393 of the Cuban Penal Code for alleged offenses against personal privacy, with possible penalties ranging from two to five years in prison.
In April, she reported the hacking of her WhatsApp and Telegram accounts and the deactivation of her ETECSA lines, revealing that counterintelligence agents attempted to recruit her as an informant during an interrogation at the Alamar police station, offering support for her music career in exchange for abandoning activism.
Despite everything, they have maintained their activism without pause.
Last Thursday, he met with the head of mission of the United States Embassy in Cuba, Mike Hammer, along with the youth collective "Fuera de la Caja Cuba".
In that meeting, Hammer conveyed a message from Secretary of State Marco Rubio: "On behalf of Washington, I was with Secretary Rubio, I told him we would be meeting, so he sends his regards and encouragement."
Anna Bensi jumped into the international spotlight in February 2026 after her videos went viral on TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook, denouncing blackouts, low wages, and the lack of freedoms in Cuba. Since then, she has continued to publish critical content against the regime, despite facing systematic repression.
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