The Cuban broadcaster and presenter Laritza Camacho demanded this Tuesday that regime officials abandon their political disguises and fulfill their real responsibilities.
"It is necessary to remove the masks and costumes. It is urgent that the officials take action," he wrote in the post that is circulating on social media.
The message deliberately revisits the metaphor of the "disguise" that shook Cuba a year ago, but it inverts it with surgical precision: while in July 2025 the government attempted to portray the poor as impostors, Camacho now points out that it is the officials themselves who are wearing masks.
"I was thinking about the issue of costumes in Cuba. We have already shown that the vulnerable are not disguised, but what about the officials?" wrote the host, establishing a direct connection to that scandal.
The origin of this controversy was the then Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, who stated before the National Assembly that in Cuba “there are no beggars, only people disguised as beggars”, further suggesting that those who clean windshields or rummage through trash bins lead an “easy” life.
The public reaction was one of widespread outrage. Díaz-Canel had to step in to address it on July 15, 2025, lamenting "the lack of sensitivity in the approach to vulnerability," and Feitó resigned the following day under the mounting pressure.
After the scandal, the Cuban government acknowledged more than 310,000 people in a state of poverty or social vulnerability, a figure that contrasts with the data from 2024, when the State reported 189,000 families and 350,000 people in vulnerable conditions within a population of 9.7 million.
Tuesday's post is not an isolated incident. Throughout 2026, Camacho has consistently maintained a critical stance against the regime from within the island.
On July 25, she reported that the official measures aim for the regime to "entrench itself in power and its luxury", and on July 11, she openly declared to be "against the Cuban government" and demanded resignations for those who approved ineffective measures.
In June, she urged the leaders to "fill the pots", to pick up the garbage, listen to the people, and grant amnesty to political prisoners. She also questioned how those who "have done everything wrong" can guarantee that they will do "everything right".
Presenter, actress, and announcer born in Havana in 1967, Camacho is known for her work on the program Mediodía en TV and on Radio Ciudad de La Habana.
Her voice, once associated with state media, has become one of the most direct on the island in holding the regime accountable for the crisis affecting the population.
"If they cannot solve the problem, they need to step aside," he had warned on July 11. Tuesday's message is the logical continuation of that demand: that the officials stop merely acting and finally start functioning.
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