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The Cuban comedian Ulises Toirac posted this Monday on Facebook an ironic and forceful text in which he dismantles the triumphalist rhetoric of the Cuban government, comparing the official narrative to Hollywood disaster movies where everything miraculously ends well.
In the post, Toirac writes: "It seems that what I see, suffer, and analyze is one (another) reality, but in the true truth that those who know, the chosen ones, dominate, this is a superproduction from Jóligud, where everything is wrong but miraculously ends well."
The comedian describes that official narrative as a disaster movie in which the protagonists come up with impossible solutions and in the end, "the sun comes out, the planet is saved, the dead go to the grave, and the living go to eat chicken."
To ridicule the idea that there is some magical formula to solve the crisis, he invents absurd terms like "steroidal simagma," "magnetifoide tribalance," and "helicoidal emulsification cyclotron."
Then he drops the irony and goes straight to the point: "Listen: the waves are three meters high, the glacial areas span millions of square miles, the destabilization is as universal as the law of gravitation, all concentrated in a little piece of the Caribbean. And there’s no Jerry Bruckheimer with a cap. Stop the wanking; this isn’t Hollywood, and there’s no helical emulsifying cyclotron to fix this crap. Open your eyes, damn it!"
The message arrives at the worst energy crisis Cuba has experienced in decades.
This Monday, the electrical deficit on the island exceeded 2,100 MW, with blackouts in many areas of the country lasting over 20 hours a day.
The record was set on May 13, when the deficit reached 2,153 MW during peak hours, leaving 51% of the country without electricity simultaneously.
On that same day, Díaz-Canel admitted that the situation is "particularly tense".
The energy crisis is accompanied by a food emergency: a recent study revealed that 33.9% of Cuban households reported hunger in 2025.
Toirac is not unaware of the consequences of speaking plainly.
In August 2025, State Security summoned him for opinions expressed on social media, which did not deter his critical stance.
In recent months, he has criticized the wastefulness in Díaz-Canel's political events, the double standards of the Cuban justice system, and the absurdity of prioritizing campaigns like "My signature for the Homeland" while Cubans lack electricity and food.
In February, he described the economic model of the revolution as unviable and lacking the ability to sustain itself.
Known for television programs such as "Sabadazo" and "Do You Swear to Tell the Truth?", Toirac has accumulated 45 years of artistic life and has turned his Facebook profile into one of the most direct platforms for criticism of the regime within the island itself.
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