The singer Baby Lores, based in Miami, reported this Saturday that the Cuban regime prevented him from boarding a flight to Havana while he was trying to travel urgently to visit his mother, who is critically ill in intensive care, according to what he shared in a video and a post on Facebook.
The artist explained that he bought his ticket, boarded the plane at Miami International Airport, and waited for takeoff, but minutes before the flight was scheduled to depart, he was forced to get off.
"I decided to get a ticket and Cuba denied me entry, I was removed from the plane. And these are the consequences of... standing with the truth," he said from the airport in the video that accompanied his complaint.
In his written message, Baby Lores was more emphatic: "I bought my ticket, boarded the plane, and sat down waiting to take off. Minutes before departure, they made me get off. They denied me entry to the country where I was born."
The musician noted that so far he has not received any official explanation from the Cuban authorities, and he directly linked the decision to his recent public statements. "This happens after I decided to stop remaining silent, to speak out publicly, and to denounce what I consider abuses, censorship, and repression in Cuba," he wrote.
Far from being intimidated, the artist warned that the ban will have the opposite effect of what was intended: “They didn't silence me. They did exactly the opposite. Because preventing me from entering Cuba doesn’t erase what I think. It doesn’t erase where I was born. It doesn’t erase my history. It doesn’t erase my family. And it certainly doesn’t erase my voice.”
Baby Lores concluded his statement with a phrase that sums up his stance on what happened: "If to silence an artist they have to close the doors of their own land, then they were never afraid of his music. They were afraid of his voice."
Baby Lores has taken increasingly critical positions towards the regime in recent months. He participated in the court hearing of artist El Insurrecto in April of this year, and in December 2025, he spoke out publicly when the artist was arrested. His foundation Somos Esperanza received recognition in the Capitol in Washington in March for its work with children with autism and other different abilities.
The ban comes months after a painful family loss: last June, the singer's grandmother passed away, who had also been hospitalized.
On that occasion, Baby Lores expressed gratitude for having been able to say goodbye to her during a trip to the island in January 2025, the first he had taken in six years.
The Cuban regime has a long history of preventing artists and public figures who express criticism from entering the country. The concept of the "regulated" — a migratory restriction imposed without formal legal proceedings — has been used for decades against dissidents and creators.
The musician Gorki Águila was detained by State Security in May 2024 when he was trying to leave the country, and the comedian Alexis Valdés has publicly stated that he has not been allowed to enter Cuba since 2002.
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