A Cuban resident outside the island triggered a wave of reactions on TikTok with a nearly five-minute video in which she directly confronts her compatriots who remain in Cuba and harshly questions their lack of unity in the face of the crisis the country is experiencing.
The TikToker, identified as @mini_lolita92, begins the video with a question that encapsulates all her frustration: "Do you like the way you are living? Do you like that those of us living outside Cuba have to keep stepping up for you?"
The message has a distinctly emotional tone, with the woman on the verge of tears and resorting to colloquial Cuban language in several of her remarks.
The core of her criticism targets a contradiction that she finds unbearable: "They are capable of using all that bravery they possess to abuse, to kill, to steal, to assault, to take advantage of those who have little by fighting to take it away from them. However, they are not capable of using that same courage against those who truly deserve it."
The woman claims she hasn't set foot on the island in years and asserts that she no longer cares if she's prohibited from returning: “I haven’t been to Cuba in years, and I really don’t mind if they don’t let me enter Cuba again.” She acknowledges, however, that she has family and friends there and suffers from a distance.
His central call is for a massive mobilization, but with an explicit warning: "If only two or three are going to take to the streets, don’t do it; it’s not worth it. If there’s no mass participation and unity, don’t go. Because in the end, it’s always the same few getting out there while the others just sit at home waiting to see what will happen."
It also questions the religious institutions on the island—"brotherhoods, powers, and cults"—and asks them what they are doing in the face of the crisis and whether they believe that the solution is to "remain silent."
The TikToker flatly rejects that her message is political or related to the embargo or U.S. foreign policy: "No one should come to me talking about a blockade, or bring up an embargo, or anything like that, because I am talking about the internal issues of Cuba, about the Cuban system."
She anticipates the criticism she will receive—accusations that she is inciting violence or that she speaks easily from a distance—and dismisses it outright. She asserts that if she were in Cuba, "I would either be in prison or dead, one of the two." She concludes with a warning: "They are not going to silence me. Nor am I going to stop."
The video reflects a recurring phenomenon within the Cuban diaspora on social media, where emigrants express their frustration with both the situation on the island and what they perceive as a passive attitude of those who remain there.
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