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Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba, published a text on X this Saturday titled "Cuba: Lies as the Favorite Weapon in the Offensive Against Cuba," in which he accuses the Trump administration of resorting to "its oldest weapon: lies." What the official failed to notice—or chose to ignore—is that the phrase with which he concludes his post on the social network serves as an involuntary confession from the socialist manual: the people of the Island are indeed already familiar with the taste of lies. Those of the regime that Morales Ojeda represents.
The official's text denounces that Washington "blatantly manipulates" by offering a "supposed humanitarian aid" of 100 million dollars, describes U.S. pressure as a "dark practice," and asserts that "the Revolution has unmasked each of these maneuvers." All of this is accompanied by the hashtag #LaPatriaSeDefiende, just in case there was any doubt about the literary genre to which the writing belongs.
The immediate context of the post is the dispute surrounding the humanitarian aid offer announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio on May 8, which is contingent upon the distribution being carried out by the Catholic Church and independent organizations, without the mediation of the Cuban state.
The chancellor Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla described it on May 12 as a "100 million dollar lie". Days later, the regime softened its stance and stated it was "willing to listen." And this very week, in which Morales Ojeda published his diatribe about others' "lies," the U.S. sent two planes with 1,900 food and hygiene kits to Cuba, distributed by Caritas in Santiago de Cuba.
The unintentional irony of the message is significant when contrasted with the reality that Morales Ojeda carefully omits in his daily speeches. The country's economy declined by around 5% in 2025, accumulating more than a 15% decline in GDP since 2020, according to the Center for Cuban Economic Studies. Average salaries do not exceed 14 dollars per month, which is insufficient to cover basic expenses.
The electrical deficit reached 2,113 MW on May 12, with power outages lasting up to 25 hours a day in some provinces. The government itself acknowledged that Cuba had not received gasoline since December 2025. A Cuban citizen quoted by El País summed it up with stark accuracy: “This feels apocalyptic”.
About who is lying to whom, Cubans also have a well-formed opinion. A survey published in April 2026 revealed that 94% of respondents indicated the lowest level of "no confidence at all" in the main figures of the government, with an average confidence level of 1.1 out of five. Morales Ojeda is among the regime's officials who face the greatest rejection, alongside Miguel Díaz-Canel, Esteban Lazo, Manuel Marrero, and Raúl Castro.
It is not the first time the official has a creative relationship with the facts. In December 2024, he stated that "half a million" people participated in the People's March against the embargo, a figure that aerial images reduced to about 14,000 people. A difference of 486,000 individuals that, in Morales Ojeda's vocabulary, would probably also be blamed on Washington.
Even Miguel Díaz-Canel himself admitted at the National Assembly of People's Power in December 2024 that official media are "disapproved" on social media due to their "failures and omissions." In other words, the head of the regime publicly acknowledged what Morales Ojeda denounces in others: omission as a systematic practice.
The phrase with which the official concludes his post—that the Cuban people "already know the taste of lies and the blockade"—is, in that context, the most honest summary he has produced in years. He is right: the Cuban people know that taste all too well. They have been forced to savor it for 67 years.
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