The Cuban speaker, actress, and host Laritza Camacho once again directly challenged the ruling elite of the island with a phrase that encapsulates months of ongoing criticism: "They should protest against themselves", she posted on her Facebook account addressing the regime's leaders.
The statement comes at a time when Cuba is experiencing historic levels of citizen protests. According to data from Cubalex collected by Infobae, there were 766 demonstrations recorded in the first six months of 2026, with more than 410 arbitrary detentions.
The Cuban Observatory of Conflicts recorded 1,133 protests in April and 1,311 in May, driven by power outages of up to twenty hours a day, extreme shortages of food, water, and fuel, and the widespread increase in the cost of living.
Camacho's new statement is not an isolated event, but rather the most recent link in a chain of pronouncements that has intensified throughout this year.
At the beginning of June, the presenter demanded that the leaders "fill the pots", pick up the garbage, listen to the people, and grant amnesty to political prisoners.
In July, she was more direct: “I am against the Cuban government because the Cuban government is against Cuba”, she stated unequivocally.
Days later, she reported that the regime's measures are designed so that "they and their own can entrench themselves in power and luxury", and at the end of that same month, she demanded that officials "remove their masks" and fulfill their actual responsibilities to the population.
In August, she issued a challenge to the members of the Communist Party of Cuba and stated that in the island "we are not happy."
On September 29, she once again pointed to the government's responsibility by stating that "the problem has never been the photo or the photographer," and just days before her most recent statement, on October 2, she wrote on Facebook: "No one would miss the taste of bread if they weren't eating stone" and "No one would miss the intelligence of words if they weren't hearing nonsense, each one worse than the last."
Camacho, known for her work at Radio Ciudad de La Habana and for programs like Mediodía en TV, has been using her social media for years to criticize the regime from within the island, making her one of the most visible dissenting voices in the country.
Her critical journey begins forcefully from the protests on July 11, 2021, when she demanded an apology and the resignation of Díaz-Canel for ordering the repression against the demonstrators.
Five years later, with the crisis worsened and protests multiplied, their message to the leaders is clearer than ever: if anyone should take to the streets to demand change, it is themselves.
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