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The Cuban broadcaster and presenter Laritza Camacho published on her Facebook profile a direct message to the leaders of the Cuban regime, in which she demands four specific actions: to pick up the trash, to listen to the people, to grant amnesty to political prisoners, and, above all, to resolve the food crisis that is ravaging the country.
In the text titled "The False is False from Any Corner," Camacho turns to a popular saying to summarize his central argument: "Fill the pots...the full cauldrons do not sound."
With that image, the announcer flips the official narrative that often attributes social discontent to "external manipulation," pointing out that the real cause is misery: a people with full stomachs do not need to protest.
"Happy hearts do not shout slogans, and brains occupied with useful things create and produce," wrote Camacho, making it clear that the solution to social unrest lies not in repression or propaganda, but in addressing basic needs.
The message also outright rejects the argument that time in power equates to legitimacy.
"Don't talk to me about time. Don't tell me that a power exercised for years means it is a good power," he wrote, adding a powerful historical comparison: "Slavery lasted for centuries in the world. Can anyone tell me that it is just?"
Camacho also draws a distinction between power and governance: "Power is a whip; governance is not. Governance requires cunning, intelligence, diplomacy, the ability to make friends and not enemies. Governance is about steering in the right direction and should be characterized by prosperity, progress, justice, understanding, truth, and transparency."
And dismisses the excuse of external blame: "Looking for external factors to justify your poor management doesn't work either," he states.
The post arrives at a time of unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Cuba, where 96.91% of the population lacks adequate access to food and 33.9% of households had at least one member who went to bed hungry in the last 30 days.
The shortage of food is compounded by a garbage collection crisis in Havana exacerbated by the lack of fuel, which has immobilized waste trucks and forced residents to burn the trash accumulated in the streets.
This is not the first time Camacho has publicly criticized the government. On May 28, she published another piece about the official double standard, summarized in the phrase “Lies are shouted loudly while the truth is whispered quietly”, and in July 2021, she wrote an open letter to Díaz-Canel demanding his resignation following the repression of 11J.
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