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José Daniel Ferrer, leader of the Cuban Patriotic Union (UNPACU), published a message on his social media this Friday stating that the end of the Cuban dictatorship is imminent, challenging those who doubt that the Castro communist regime will fall.
"For many years, many spoke about the need to put an end to the criminal Castro-communist tyranny, but few did anything to make it happen," Ferrer wrote at 5:51 in the morning.
The opposition figure continued: "So many years have gone by without anything truly significant happening, that today, when change is finally underway and the end of tyranny is just around the nearest corner, there are those who doubt and believe that nothing will change and that Cuba will remain enslaved. Well, they are mistaken and they will soon be proven wrong!"
The message arrives amid a week marked by an unprecedented escalation of pressure from Washington against Havana. On Wednesday, the Department of Justice declassified a formal charge against Raúl Castro for the shooting down of two planes from Brothers to the Rescue on February 24, 1996, which resulted in the death of four Cuban Americans. This Thursday, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested in Miami the sister of the head of GAESA, the military conglomerate that controls between 40% and 70% of the Cuban economy.
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that "there will be no place on this Earth" for those who threaten the national security of the United States.
Since his exile, which he was forced into in October 2025 following a hunger strike in the Mar Verde prison in Santiago de Cuba, Ferrer has continued his activism against the Cuban regime. Last Monday, he responded to Díaz-Canel —who had warned of a "bloodbath" in the event of a possible military action by the U.S.— with an inversion of the metaphor: "It's going to be the excrement bath of the tyranny."
The opposition figure has also warned that if the regime is not eliminated, "its allies will help it to arm itself to the teeth" and will become a greater danger to the U.S.
On May 15, he stated that Washington has “all the moral, legal, military, economic, and political power” to bring an end to the regime.
On May 11, in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Independiente from Warsaw, he stated that the Cuban regime "will not survive this year" and anticipates an outcome before the midterm elections in the U.S.
Ferrer is on a European tour that began on May 2 in Madrid, to promote the "Cuba Liberation Agreement," signed on March 2 in Miami by more than 30 organizations of the Cuban exile community.
The deadline set by Rubio for foreign companies to sever ties with GAESA is on June 5, a date that Ferrer himself has indicated as part of the siege that, according to him, will seal the fate of the dictatorship.
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