The Cuban Angie (@angie_parle), who went viral on September 9 for confronting the French communist leader Fabien Roussel live on French television, published a reel on Instagram this Friday, in which she thanked her new Spanish-speaking followers and announced that she will not stop raising her voice for Cuba.
The video, posted on her Instagram account on Friday, garnered over 15,000 "likes" and more than 1,200 comments in less than 24 hours, while her profile reached 19,800 followers, a figure that reflects the interest generated by her words and her appearance on the show "La Grande Confrontation" on the LCI network.
Significantly, Angie chose as the cover image for the reel the post from CiberCuba about her television appearance, a gesture that highlights the impact that the Spanish coverage of her story had on the Spanish-speaking community.
In the video, recorded in Spanish and French, Angie introduces herself to those who discovered her through the television moment: «My name is Angie, I was born and raised in Havana, Cuba, and I have been here in France for over 7 years».
He explains that he has been documenting the consequences of communism in Cuba in French for months, but the episode with Roussel opened the doors to a Spanish-speaking community that had not followed him until then: Venezuelans, Argentinians, Chileans, Colombians, and Cubans from the diaspora began to flock to his account in large numbers.
Angie denounces in the video the attitude of part of the European left towards her testimony: «Here in France and in the European Union, there are many deaf who try to explain to me what I experienced in my country. They know that it’s all the fault of the embargo, and since I’m not leftist, I’m fascist».
The young woman describes the paradox she experiences as a Cuban emigrant in Europe: «I left Cuba seeking a little more freedom and ended up having to defend my right here to explain why I left».
It also speaks of the families that remain on the island, «surviving amid blackouts, water shortages, and food scarcity», and of the young people of his generation who flee the country, while from abroad the debate is concluded with a single word —«embargo»— «as if that were enough to end the conversation».
Angie describes herself on her social media as "Cuban by birth, anti-communist by conviction" and is preparing a miniseries about Cuban reality to showcase, without filters, the streets, blackouts, shortages, and the testimonies of those living under the regime.
His confrontation with Roussel took place just three days after the national secretary of the French Communist Party officially announced his presidential candidacy for 2027 with 72% support from party members, at the very start of his campaign.
In response to Angie's question —«Doesn't it embarrass you to support a dictator?»—, Roussel refused to use that term and referred to Díaz-Canel as the "president of the Republic of Cuba," to which she replied without hesitation: "He's a dictator, no one elected him."
I am Angie, I am Cuban, and as long as I have a voice, I will continue to raise it for my people, she concludes in the reel, summarizing in one phrase the reason she speaks: for those who cannot do so.
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