The Cuban content creator Dany Olazábal shared on Instagram a video of a street interview in which a young man responds "Lima" when asked what the capital of Cuba is, a mistake that sparked hundreds of jokes among Cuban users.
It is unclear when the video was recorded and what its original publication was. Olazábal is not listed as the author of the clip, but he shared it again on his profile along with a brief phrase: "Long live Lima."
The post has amassed over 38,000 likes and 2,100 comments, many of them from Cubans who took advantage of the confusion between Havana and the capital of Peru to showcase the typical humor of social media.
The video features three young people during a street interview. Two are wearing shirts from Real Betis and Rayo Vallecano, while a third holds the microphone. When the question "What is the capital of Cuba?" is asked, one of the participants responds, "Lima."
"And the one from Peru, Havana," one user replied ironically, in a comment that received over 2,000 "likes."
Others brought the misunderstanding into the realm of Cuban emigration. "Currently Miami is the second city, Madrid the third, Tapachula fourth, Curitiba fifth, Montevideo," joked one user. "Today there's a party in Machu Picchu," wrote another.
"Cuba lost the capital and Peru won a share, I'm dying of laughter," was another reaction that the exchange generated.
Amid the jokes, there were also comments with a more reflective tone. "We are more Cuban in Lima than Peruvians in Havana," wrote one user, trying to find a humorous explanation for the mistake. Another joked: "Moral of the story: we are not as important as Fidel Castro made us believe."
It is not the first time that an apparently simple question about Cuban geography has gone viral due to an incorrect answer. In April 2026, a young woman answered "Matanza" when asked what the capital of Cuba is, in a video that exceeded 339,000 views on Facebook.
The capital of Cuba is Havana, founded on November 16, 1519, and officially recognized as a city by King Philip II on December 20, 1592.
The video is part of a established trend of viral Cuban content on social media, where spontaneous humor and unexpected responses to general knowledge questions generate millions of interactions.
But among Olazábal's followers, at least for a few hours, the geography was officially altered.
"Greetings from Lima, Cuba," concluded one of the commentators.
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