While Cuba suffers blackouts of up to 30 hours a day and a food shortage that affects nearly its entire population, traffic authorities in Guantánamo have found their great battle: targeting the use of resonators, illegal street racing, and loud music on motorcycles.
The campaign was spread by the Facebook page “Guantánamo and its Truth”, a profile identified as an official spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), part of a network of propaganda accounts maintained by the Cuban regime.
The publication announces that the operations have been extended to several municipalities in the province, including Manuel Tames, where drivers were detained and fined for excessive noise.
According to the profile aligned with MININT, during the operations, "preventive meetings" were held with drivers "to warn, raise awareness, and demand the cessation of these practices that generate social unrest."
In cases of recidivism, authorities file charges for disobedience, a criminal offense in Cuba.
Several vehicles were impounded until their owners replace the resonators with proper mufflers.
The aggravating factor: only the legal owners can retrieve them from the deposits, which complicates the situation when they reside abroad or outside the province and prolongs the retention indefinitely.
The cost of recovering a retained vehicle amounts to 1,000 Cuban pesos for each day of stay in the impound lot, a significant amount in a country where the average salary does not meet basic needs.
Among the cases highlighted by the official profile is a vehicle without a resonator system but with noise levels exceeding permissible limits, which authorities classified as "indications of deliberate behaviors against public tranquility."
Drivers without licenses were also detected, and surveillance continues on illegal motorcycle races, with individuals already facing criminal charges.
While Cubans face hunger, darkness, and an unprecedented crisis in decades, the state apparatus dedicates resources and public attention to chasing the noise of motorcycles.
"Noise is also a form of violence. Stopping it is everyone's responsibility," concluded the spokesperson for MININT in their post, seemingly unaware of the contradiction.
This is not the first time that the regime has deployed this type of operations in the region.
In August 2025, an operation in Baracoa detained around 20 motorcycles for unlicensed drivers, with two accused of the crime of disobedience for being repeat offenders.
In addition, last February and also in the eastern region, the National Police immobilized 181 vehicles in Santiago de Cuba, many due to exhaust modifications with resonators.
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