The Cuban broadcaster Laritza Camacho published a post on Facebook in which she calls upon Cubans remaining on the Island to unite in what she describes as a "business of new ideas" in the neighborhood, with a phrase that directly targets the regime: "together, let's get rid of the trash that stinks and the trash that organizes and lies."
The message condenses two realities into a single image that Camacho has consistently highlighted throughout the year: the urban decay of Cuban streets, where garbage piles up without the State collecting it, and the empty official discourse that fails to address the issues.
The radio and television presenter starts the post with a stark description of the massive exodus that is emptying the country: "Cubans have been quietly exporting our dreams, loves, children, parents, uncles, neighbors, partners... An uncontrolled, dangerous, and deeply painful export."
The metaphor of the "exportation" of people is not incidental: by referring to Cubans as "exportable and profitable merchandise," Laritza subverts the regime's narrative and reframes emigration as a state business at the expense of the country's family structure.
"This export has brought foreign currency to the Island, mixed with time apart, broken families, and a nostalgia that hides its tears in handkerchiefs," he writes, and adds: "We are numbers that add up in the major key and subtract in the silent census of absences and pandemics."
The text also acknowledges those who were unable to leave: "The wheel turned 360 degrees and returned to the starting point, but in a different time. We then discovered that the train, the plane, the ship, the gazelle, and even the rikimbili had already departed."
Faced with this situation, the actress is not calling for resignation but for collective action from within: "I’m not looking for investors. I’m looking for Cubans who won’t turn a blind eye, beautiful people who won’t run in the opposite direction of what is right."
The publication is part of a critical line that the broadcaster maintains relentlessly. On July 11, she stated plainly: "I am against the Cuban government because the Cuban government is against Cuba. Nothing works in my country." On August 5, she was even more direct with the officials: "Get out and leave because we don't need you."
At the end of July, she described Havana as a capital suffering from a lack of transportation, accumulated garbage, collapses, and residents collecting water with buckets.
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