The Cuban Cesáreo Navas y Morlanes published an open denunciation this Sunday on Facebook directed at the leaders of the regime in which he describes the official slogan "No one left behind" as "opportunistic and demagogic nonsense", and concludes with a resounding: "Enough, enough, enough!".
The text arises as a direct reaction to episode 35 of the official podcast "Desde la Presidencia", aired on October 2, in which the appointed president Miguel Díaz-Canel, the prime minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, and the Minister of Justice Rosabel Gamón Verde discussed the supposed progress of the 176 economic and social transformations approved in June 2026.
Navas and Morlanes describe the program as "designed to beguile, deceive, and distract" the population, and points out that the most revealing moment came when Díaz-Canel asked Marrero when results would be seen: the prime minister, according to the author, "shifted in his seat, smiled" and replied that "next year, progress and results will be noticeable".
Since he took office on October 10, 2019, his presidency has been marked by unfulfilled promises, predicting at the end of each year that the next year will be better," writes the Cuban, also recalling Díaz-Canel's failed promises regarding blackouts and water shortages.
Regarding this last point, the author is unequivocal: the regime promised that by the end of October the water shortage would improve, but the situation worsened. According to data from the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources, more than 2.7 million Cubans were affected by water supply issues in October 2026, with 66% of the disruptions attributed to a lack of electricity to operate the pumps.
The figure of 883,000 vulnerable individuals in the country that, you say, is not the real number, as there are millions of defenseless Cubans, writes, and lists those he considers excluded from the system: retirees with miserable pensions, employees with ridiculous salaries, and all those who do not have access to the privileges of the military, party, or business elite.
"Because of them, with the constant mismanagement of the fief, they have turned me into a pessimistic and skeptical person, and thus, I believe in none of it. Our life, and especially that of retirees, is destitute and painful. We are discarded, abandoned people. They exploited us to the fullest, squeezed us dry, and now they want us to sweep the floor with our tongues," the author laments.
The text also points to the structural inequality that separates the leaders from the population: “There is no economic and social equality; the chasm between you and us grows wider and deeper every day.”
Several Cubans agreed with Cesáreo Navas and Morlanes. "For 100 years they have been making promises, offering changes, but it's always next year," wrote one user. Another was more blunt: "I am convinced that the measures have already failed before being implemented, and for something as simple as being out of time, it no longer holds value, and regarding retirees, they declared us disposable material a long time ago."
The Cuban economy has experienced a contraction of approximately 26% since 2020, power outages reached 30 consecutive hours in some provinces in October, and independent studies indicate that eight out of ten Cubans have stopped eating at least one meal a day due to lack of resources; among those over 61, the proportion approaches nine out of ten.
"They cannot ask for support from the excluded, from those of us who have neither material resources nor hope," conclude Navas and Morlanes.
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