The youth collective Fuera de la Caja Cuba published a new video on Instagram, in which its members directly respond to the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel with a strong message: "Stop playing the victim."
The reel opens with Díaz-Canel's own voice asserting that the blame does not lie with the government or the revolution, a phrase the leader stated on March 13 to attribute the Cuban crisis to the U.S. embargo.
From that audio clip, the young influencers take the floor to dismantle that narrative one by one, using specific historical and political arguments.
"In Cuba, since the year 1959, there has only been one regime. Furthermore, it rules with absolute intolerance towards the slightest form of political opposition," they state.
The members of the digital project emphasize that it has been "nearly 70 years dictating every aspect of our economy, our politics, even our own lives. And always in the name of the entire people. As if 100% of Cubans thought the same way."
The video challenges the regime's narrative of victimhood by referencing historical facts that the official discourse overlooks: "What happens to those political prisoners? Or to those disaffected by the revolution? Those people were made to endure unbearable lives. What about the thousands of Cubans who were lost at sea? Or those who were tortured in the UMAP camps?"
The young people also point out the gap between those who wield power and those who suffer its consequences: "They do not experience blackouts, nor do they go hungry, and even less do they know what misery is. It is us who endure communism."
And they conclude with a phrase that summarizes the distance between the leadership and the people: "From any mansion, it's revolutionary."
Díaz-Canel ha reiterado esa narrativa en múltiples ocasiones durante 2026. En abril admitió «errores propios» de su gobierno, pero insistió en que el principal culpable de la crisis es Washington. También aseguró que la revolución habría logrado «muchas más conquistas» sin el embargo estadounidense.
Fuera de la Caja does not accept this logic and confronts it with a direct comparison: "In any other country, for less than 1% of all the garbage they’ve imposed on us, they would have kicked it out a long time ago."
The video concludes with a statement that encapsulates his stance on the regime: "You do not govern Cuba; you have it held hostage. Stop making excuses, no more looking for blame abroad, because the real culprit is right here at home, and it is the dictatorship. Long live a Free Cuba!"
The group, founded in January 2026 in the Cerro municipality by four young individuals around twenty years old, has experienced a systematic escalation of repression since its initial publications: State Security agents visited their homes, ETECSA disabled their phones in March, and in April, their messaging accounts were simultaneously hacked.
One of its founders, Karel Daniel Hernández Bosques, reported in a video that agents warned them that they would "end up in prison" if they continued publishing, and that "it is illegal here not to be a communist." Amnesty International documented these cases and called for an end to the harassment.
The international profile of the group has grown significantly in May: on the 15th of this month, the U.S. representative Mike Hammer met with its members in Cuba, and on May 17, they published another video dismantling the narrative of "different democracy" from Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, which surpassed 144,000 views on Facebook.
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