A Cuban living in the United States recorded a video while working as a delivery driver in the rain to respond to her family in Cuba, who believe that earning 100 dollars an hour is easy and do not appreciate the help that is sent to the island.
The clip, shared on Facebook under the hashtag #cubanosporelmundo, was posted by Yeisla Colina, who clarified that it was not her original content but that she "had to share it" because she was "tired of the topic of Cuba."
Colina recorded the scene from his car, in the midst of a downpour, while making deliveries for Spark Driver, the delivery platform of Walmart where drivers work as independent contractors and are paid per completed order.
"For the family members in Cuba who say that 100 dollars in the United States is easy to come by... Look where I am, driving for Spark in this pouring rain," the Cuban woman began, clearly exhausted.
She claims that she sends boxes of basic products every month, and according to her, they are not even grateful. "Many times they don't even thank you for the box you sent. They keep asking for more. And they ask, and ask, and ask, and ask," she reported.
Colina also dismantled the idea that living in the U.S. means having excess money. "Do you know why we have it? Because we sweat for our money to pay for our things. Because here, if I don't pay for my car, they take it away. If I don't pay my car insurance, they cut it off and fine me. If I don't pay for electricity, they cut it off. If I don't pay the rent for my house, the landlord won't care if I have two, three, or five children. They'll throw me out!"
At the end of the video, Colina was decisive: "Don't ask me for anything else, because I'm not sending anything over there. With all the pain in my heart. I'm done."
Before concluding, he pointed directly to the root of the problem: "Don't compare that Cuba has been like this for over 60 years because of a fucking dictatorship. And that you Cubans on the island aren't doing anything either."
The case of Colina is not isolated. Throughout 2026, a viral pattern has emerged among Cubans abroad who are publicly expressing their frustration over the constant requests for remittances.
A Cuban woman in Florida exploded in May after receiving simultaneous requests from four people; another in Spain called for more empathy in June; one in Arizona demanded in July that the effort of sending money be appreciated; and in mid-August, another Cuban woman reported that her relatives treat her like an "ATM."
The background is the structural crisis of the Cuban economy, which has turned remittances into a pillar of survival for millions of families on the island. Estimates from January 2026 place the annual remittances to Cuba between 1.8 and 2.1 billion dollars, an amount equivalent to about 8.3% of the Cuban GDP.
Sending money has also become more difficult since Western Union indefinitely suspended its operations from the U.S. to Cuba in February 2025, following sanctions linked to the company Orbit S.A. This has pushed more emigrants towards informal channels that carry a higher risk of scams and losses.
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