The Cuban professor and jurist René Fidel González García published this Sunday, from Santiago de Cuba, a passionate text on Facebook in which he directly challenges the Communist Party of Cuba and questions whether its leaders and members will support what he describes as a process of privatization and impoverishment of the population.
Doctor in Legal Sciences and former full professor at the University of Oriente, González García expressed that he was "upset" at the beginning of his publication and posed a series of rhetorical questions that strike at the heart of the model the regime defends as socialism.
"Will the Communist Party of Cuba, its leaders and militants, provide political support for the process of restoring capitalism, for privatization and the commodification of socioeconomic and cultural rights; for the dismantling of public institutions; and for the impoverishment of the Cuban population through a fierce, import-driven, lucrative, corrupt, unpunished, and authoritarian mode of exploitation of man by man?" wrote the jurist.
González García also questioned whether the PCC will accept "to invisibilize, for as long as possible, the brutal and profound inequality in the distribution of wealth; the opacity and practices surrounding the granting, without bidding, of each license, public installation, or state asset; [...] as well as the final stage of the original accumulation of capital carried out by economic, business, and political elites in Cuba, and the expansion into a public, legal, and ostensible phase of the belonging of its members to a winning social class."
Her complaint also targets those who, she asserts, are already turning a blind eye to the misery: "Will they do all of this while looking the other way regarding poor Cubans, as many already do, avoiding encounters with them on the streets and in the garbage dumps where they survive and eat?"
The lawyer was emphatic in describing the nature of power in Cuba: "They can no longer even invoke the definition of a dictatorship of the proletariat. It is against the proletarians, at the expense of the proletarians, without the proletarians."
The text comes days after the regime closed a parliamentary session in which it approved 176 economic transformations —including private banking, private currency exchange, and the conversion of state enterprises into commercial companies— while Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz insisted before the National Assembly that Cuba is not deviating from the socialist model.
Miguel Díaz-Canel closed that session on July 30, stating that the reforms are not capitalism but socialism, although he himself acknowledged concerns about "the growth of private capital, the concentration of wealth [...] and the increase in inequalities." One deputy even admitted during the debate that, although it may seem like capitalism, "it is what we are doing."
González García does not shy away from the issue of repression and addresses it directly: "Why do we have to continue enduring exclusion, persecution, and punishment for political beliefs in Cuba? Yes, that is what they do. That's why they are repressors."
The jurist knows firsthand what it means to be punished for one's ideas. He was dismissed from the University of Oriente in November 2016 after publishing critical articles in independent media. According to an investigation by El Toque, the institution claimed that his writings "lacked scientific merit" and "negatively influenced the comprehensive training of the professional," although González García himself and human rights organizations denounced that the dismissal was a political reprisal.
The repressive context surrounding its publication is equally severe: Prisoners Defenders reported 1,306 political prisoners in Cuba in July 2026, and the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights recorded 332 repressive actions in May alone, among which were 55 arbitrary detentions.
González García closed his publication with a reflection that encapsulates his view on power in Cuba: "Our recent history —and also its forthcoming episodes— is, in fact, a love story about power. There is no epic. There is no honor. Not a single drop of decency in it." He concluded with a call to resistance: "We continue. We must continue. We will continue."
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