Sandro Castro, grandson of the dictator Fidel Castro, published a new animated reel generated with artificial intelligence this Sunday, in which he portrays himself as the superhero "Cristach," a kind of redeemer of the island with incoherent phrases and political symbolism that is as ambiguous as it is unsettling.
The 90-second video on Instagram begins with Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who seems to be devoured by exiled zombies in the Versailles restaurant, after declaring: «I am neither left nor right! I stand for the restoration of the homeland!».
Sandro and Bolufé, the other superhero in the series, come to the rescue of Otero Alcántara. They are taken to a sort of meeting with U.S. officials, where an agreement is made regarding something like the construction of hotels on the island.
In the final sequence of the video, the rescuers are welcomed by the crowd in the Plaza de la Revolución, and instead of the silhouettes of Che and Camilo that overlook one of the buildings adjacent to the Plaza, there are one of Sandro himself and another of Cangrejo.
The character "Cristach" —a superhero in a green and gold suit that Sandro Castro has turned into his vehicle for public expression— takes his name from a play on words with the beer Cristal, a brand that frequently appears in his content.
The reel garnered 5,840 views, 101 likes, and 16 comments in the hours following its publication, figures notably lower than those of its previous installments, which generated more controversy.
This new episode is part of a series of publications that throughout July systematically targeted figures from the Cuban exile community. On July 28, Sandro Castro released a reel satirizing Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, founder of the San Isidro Movement, who had recently been exiled to Miami, exploiting controversies about his physical appearance after years of imprisonment to reinforce the regime's narrative. That video surpassed 28,000 views in a matter of hours.
On July 13, another animated piece was published where journalists Mario Pentón and Alex Otaola appeared as scavenging birds — "Vulture Rencón" and "Aura Carrín" — in front of the Capitol in Havana, in what Cubans described as an attack on voices from the exile.
Analysts have repeatedly pointed to the possible involvement of State Security behind these messages, although Sandro Castro himself stated in an interview with CNN Español in March 2026 that he was cited and questioned by that agency due to his satirical videos. In that same conversation, held amidst blackouts in Havana, he presented himself as a nightlife entrepreneur and an advocate for a capitalist economic opening for Cuba.
The contradiction between that narrative and the content of their reels—which systematically benefit the regime's narratives against opponents and exiled journalists—is precisely what fuels suspicions about their true purpose.
The pattern of publications in July and August aligns with moments of heightened political tension: the exile of Otero Alcántara to Miami on July 19, the debate regarding the unity of the exile community, and the controversies surrounding his image after five years in prison. The new reel from August 2, with content even more incoherent than the previous ones, reinforces the criticisms of those who see Sandro Castro as a tool of distraction and propaganda in service of the dictatorship bearing his grandfather's name.
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