A Cuban identified as Jorge Luis Lorenzo posted a video on Facebook directed at Díaz-Canel, in which he requested that a commission or an agent with authority be sent to the provincial capital of Sancti Spíritus to arrest those he refers to as "a bunch of counter-revolutionaries."
In the message, Lorenzo warns that if the leader does not take action, the conflict will only be resolved "when there is a problem, a death, or when there is something else that may exist."
The striking aspect of the video is the paradox it contains: the man uses the official language of the regime to denounce his own local adversaries, including the provincial party, which he also labels as counter-revolutionary. "They are all counter-revolutionaries... the provincial party," he states at one point in the clip.
At the same time, Lorenzo points out that his own rights have been trampled: "My human rights have been violated here, I have not been respected in any way, and this is a disaster; this is truly a disaster." He also refers to the fact that local authorities do not respect Díaz-Canel himself, and warns that "at any moment they are going to overthrow the government" if the Constitution is not respected.
The video illustrates a recurring phenomenon in Cuba: citizens who, from a position of declared loyalty to the system, turn to social media to denounce neighbors or local officials as "counter-revolutionaries," directly appealing to the highest leadership for intervention.
Sancti Spíritus has been the scene of a rising wave of political and social tension in recent months. In June of this year, State Security detained a pastor in Cabaiguán during a peaceful religious demonstration. This month, it was reported that a police patrol is monitoring the home of the father of a political prisoner linked to the events of July 11th in the province.
In November 2025, activists reported that the regime attempted to thwart a donation of medication intended for about 700 people in the same province. And in June 2025, a sign reading "Down with the dictatorship" appeared in a central corner of Sancti Spíritus, which was removed by agents from the Ministry of the Interior.
The term "counter-revolutionary" is a central label in the regime's discourse, historically used to criminalize dissent. That a citizen employs it to call for repression against their neighbors and against the provincial party itself reveals how deeply this language has been internalized by sectors of the population, and at the same time exposes the contradictions that corrode the social base of the system from within.
In February of this year, it was revealed that a Cuban professor was sentenced to 10 years in prison for writing slogans against Díaz-Canel, in a ruling that also involves Sancti Spíritus.
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