The Cuban announcer and actress Laritza Camacho posted on Facebook a reflection that dismantles the official discourse of the regime in two sentences: “We have a law on food sovereignty but no food. We also have no money in the banks, but we have removed the limits.”
The text points directly to two recent measures by the government: Law No. 148 on Food Sovereignty, in effect since 2022, and Resolution 74/2026 from the Central Bank of Cuba, which eliminates the cap of 5,000 pesos for cash payments between economic actors.
Camacho's irony is supported by devastating figures: four years after the approval of Law 148, Cuba imports more than 80% of the food it consumes, and according to data from the Food Monitor Program in May, 96.91% of the Cuban population does not have adequate access to provisions.
Regarding the banking measure, the public reaction was one of immediate skepticism: the Guantánamo government itself publicly admitted that banks do not have enough cash, which makes the lifting of the limit an empty gesture for most Cubans.
Camacho did not just highlight the contradictions. In his post, he also pointed out the circular nature of the regime's reforms: "We keep going around in circles, and I don't think it's to steer the country in the right direction and reverse the damage, but to buy time. Not for us, but for them."
He accuses the government of urging the people to "move forward like a crab," in a direct reference to Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, known as "El Cangrejo," grandson of Raúl Castro, who burst onto the public scene with interviews to international media from his grandfather's office, dressed in Hugo Boss jeans, Hermès sneakers, and a Rolex Submariner.
On July 9, Camacho already made a jest about El Cangrejo's public appearance: "Of course he can negotiate, if he has pedigree and money (Oh, and beautiful blue eyes!)".
In this new post, it revisits the metaphor to describe those who "grieve because we cannot live like them," referencing Raúl Guillermo's statement that it hurts him that Cubans do not live like he does.
This post by Laritza is part of a series of ongoing criticisms that the host has expressed in recent weeks.
On July 11, she declared herself against the Cuban government "because the Cuban government is against Cuba," and days later she asked how the embargo does not affect the way of life of "the powerful, the free, the negotiators, the daddies and their daddies' little ones."
In June, she questioned why those who promote sharing poverty "are becoming richer and richer".
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