The Cuban comedian Javier Berridy posted two reels on Instagram that turned into a satirical catalog of the Cuban crisis: an attendance list where each invented name serves as an X-ray of the ailments that plague the island.
The first video, published this Friday, garnered over 70,000 views, 5,463 likes, and 269 comments in less than 24 hours. The second reel, released the week before, gathered 12,241 likes and 573 comments.
The format is the same in both: a teacher takes attendance in a classroom, and the students' names are a direct mockery of the Cuban reality in 2026.
Among the students in the first video are "Revolico Martínez," "Carbonio Prieto de la Luz," "Oscuristán de la Caridad," "Ausencia del Agua Díaz," "Transfermóvil de la O," "Gasolínio Amador," and "Eurocito Parriba García," among others.
Each name carries its own built-in joke. When the teacher calls out "Absence of Water Díaz," the response is: "It didn't come, Professor, the water didn't come again." And when she asks about "Utopia Rodríguez del Monte," they inform her that "she got lost on the horizon."
The concluding part of the video directly targets the official discourse of the Cuban regime. When referring to "Cruz's Blockade," the teacher receives the response: "that student doesn't exist." The mockery of the argument with which Havana justifies decades of crisis could not be more pointed.
In the second reel, the lineup includes «Apagonio Rodríguez», «Kilowatt Martínez», «Megawatt de la O», «Termoeléctrico de Jesús», «José Panelio Solar», and «EcoFlow Domínguez», all referring to the energy crisis that in 2026 has caused power outages of up to twenty hours a day in several provinces.
The jokes operate in a chain: "EcoFlow Domínguez" didn’t come "because he ran out of charge," and "Dolaris Martínez" isn’t here either because "he went up to management," with the punchline that "Dolaris just keeps rising. What a mess," referring to the inflation and the rampant dollarization of the Cuban economy.
Also mentioned are "Gaesa Reyes Pérez" —a reference to the military business conglomerate that controls a significant portion of the formal economy on the island— and "My Charity SME," a nod to the rise of the private sector.
Berridy is one of the most active Cuban comedians on social media, with several viral videos this year. At the end of August, he published "the alphabet of Cuba's problems," and in January, he released a parody of Raúl Castro calling Donald Trump.
The names invented by Berridy are not so far from Cuban reality. In April of this year, a Russian woman living in Cuba named her daughter "Apagonia" as a reference to power outages, a fact that also went viral.
Cuba also has a long tradition of creative and invented names, many of which are formed by phonetic blends or combinations of the parents' names.
Upon publishing the second reel, Berridy posed an open question to his followers: "Tell me if you know any other names."
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