The official account of the Government of Cuba on X published a satirical video mocking Marco Rubio and Washington's policy towards the Island, ironically titled “Lessons in Democracy.”
The video, just over two minutes long and produced by Aguaje Films, features a puppet dressed in a blue suit and red tie identified as "MR BLOND WORM," sitting at a desk with American flags. The miniature mimics the design of the White House but with the text "THE BLOND HOUSE / FLORIDA," playfully referencing Trump's blonde hair and his residence in Mar-a-Lago.
In a tutorial tone, the narration outlines five steps for allegedly preparing a military intervention in Cuba: cutting off fuel through sanctions, allowing the population to suffer, arriving with humanitarian aid to appear as "the good guy," creating a pretext, and finally arriving with an aircraft carrier.
"You let people suffer alone. 25 hours without electricity, without water, without medicine, and they will think it's the fault of the Cuban government, that it's a bit of our plan," says the narration in the video.
The material compares the alleged pretext for intervening in Cuba with the justification used to invade Iraq: "In Iraq, it was weapons of mass destruction, then they said there was nothing, but we were already in. That's how it works!"
The video concludes with a phrase that encapsulates the regime's narrative: "And remember, you always have to defend freedom, even if you have to extinguish it first."
The publication is the regime's propagandistic response to the intense cycle of diplomatic pressure from Washington. The day before, May 20 —Cuba's Independence Day—, Rubio released a video in Spanish directed to the Cuban people, the first time he did so in his capacity as Secretary of State, in which he offered 100 million dollars in food and medicine conditioned on their distribution by the Catholic Church, not by GAESA.
Rubio stated that GAESA controls 18 billion dollars in assets and 70% of the Cuban economy, and declared: "Cuba is not controlled by any revolution. Cuba is controlled by GAESA."
On that same May 20, the Department of Justice presented a historic federal indictment against Raúl Castro for the downing of the Brothers to the Rescue planes on February 24, 1996, in which four Cuban Americans lost their lives.
Chancellor Bruno Rodríguez accused Rubio of repeating a "false script" and being a "spokesperson for corrupt interests," while Díaz-Canel described May 20 as a symbol of "intervention, interference, dispossession, and frustration" and labeled those who supported the Secretary of State's message as "mercenaries of dishonor."
The regime's video makes direct reference to specific elements of the current debate: sanctions on fuel, the offer of Wi-Fi and Starlink mentioned in Rubio's message, the report on the acquisition of more than 300 military drones from Russia and Iran as a "fabricated pretext," and the presence of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Caribbean.
The communications escalation is part of a maximum pressure strategy that the Trump administration has deployed since May 1, when it signed Executive Order 14404 with new sanctions, setting June 5 as the deadline for foreign companies with ties to GAESA to cut relations or face secondary sanctions announced by Rubio on May 7.
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