The activist and content creator Alfredito Fominaya posted a video on Facebook in which he announces that he will stop making videos denouncing the Cuban dictatorship, not out of surrender, but due to the disappointment he feels over the passivity of a significant portion of the citizenry in the face of the crisis on the island.
"I'm not going to make any more videos denouncing the dictatorship," the young man begins in the clip, which has garnered nearly 30,000 views and close to 3,000 reactions on the platform.
Fominaya illustrates his frustration with a specific example: an event related to "Anita" and "el pregonero" which, despite having thousands of followers, was attended by only a few.
The image that weighs most heavily on him is the contrast between that apathy and the everyday life he describes: people "singing pincha that I bring you the java and so many parties" while blackouts, hunger, and people imprisoned for thinking differently continue to pile up.
"It is disappointing to see that the people are not doing what they need to do," he clearly states in the video.
However, the central message is not a resignation but a personal reorientation. Fominaya makes it clear that his activism does not depend on the response of the masses: "I do what I do because it is true, because it is just, and in my case, because it is what God expects from me."
The young man looks toward the future with an image filled with emotion: “I long for the day when I will be sitting with my gray hair and perhaps my wrinkled hands... looking at [my wife] and telling her: it was hard, my love, we were true to ourselves and it was worth it.”
The closing of the video is a direct call to each viewer, rejecting the logic of waiting for others to act: "What really matters is not that everyone does it, what really matters is that you do it, so don't wait for what others are doing, I ask you, what are you going to do?"
Fominaya, whose full name is Alfredo G. Fominaya Roig, has become one of the most visible critical voices of the Cuban digital dissent in 2026. In April, he reported that State Security plans to fabricate a criminal case against him to imprison him for his opinions.
In May, he questioned the official campaign "My signature for the Homeland", arguing that signatures do not solve issues of water, hunger, or fear. And in June, he responded to presenter Michel Torres Corona, who had described him as "frustrated," insisting that the central demand is freedom.
The activist has ties to the independent project "Fuera de la Caja Cuba," a collective of young people that emerged in January 2026 in the Cerro municipality of Havana. They use art, theater, and social media to challenge the regime and have been harassed by State Security since February of that year.
The video is produced during a time of acute humanitarian crisis: prolonged blackouts, food shortages, and a record number of political repressions.
According to data from Prisoners Defenders as of July 9, 2026, there are 1,306 political prisoners in Cuba, including 40 minors, and more than 175 new incarcerations this year.
Fominaya closed the video with the words he repeats in every post: "Freedom for political prisoners, freedom for Cuba."
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