The commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and activist Rosa María Payá posted a video on Instagram in which she dismantles point by point the narrative of "Cuba in peace" that Miguel Díaz-Canel tries to project to the international community, directly responding to the statements made by the Cuban leader about defending the Island "to the last drop of blood."
The trigger was a message from Díaz-Canel in which he stated that Cuba "will never again be a colony of any empire" and that it will defend its sovereignty "to the last consequences," in the context of the pressure from the Trump administration on the Island.
Payá responded with a video just over a minute long that garnered over 6,300 views in a matter of hours.
"Díaz-Canel wants to promote the image of a peaceful Cuba. And this is following the scandal of Cuban soldiers defending Maduro. After the thousands of Cuban soldiers in Ukraine, in the Russian army. And after creating the largest migration crises of the last century in the history of our hemisphere," he detailed.
The activist pointed out that the leader threatened to defend his interests to the last drop of blood against anyone who dares to invade Cuba. She was direct in her response: "That blood is already being shed every day in Cuba, and you are the ones responsible."
The young woman stated that the only thing the regime has to offer the people is repression.
He also questioned the true interests that Díaz-Canel defends with this stance: "He wants to protect the money that the Castros stole from the Cuban people, but there is no invasion to guard against; the only threat to Cuba is the dictatorship, which has been causing harm for 67 years."
Payá closed his message with an unambiguous call: "The solution is for them to leave now, for them to leave once and for all and to build a country in freedom, with true peace, which is not the peace born from fear of repression, but the peace that we, the Cubans, will build when we remove the violent from power."
It is not the first time she has directly confronted the Cuban leader. In December 2024, she demanded, "Go away", after a march organized by the regime, and in September 2025, she called him a "usurper" due to the absence of free elections.
In March of this year, she reiterated that the way out of the crisis involves the end of the regime.
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