José Daniel Ferrer, leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), publicly asked on Facebook where Edmundo García was located so he could visit him and bring him something to eat, after the well-known defender of Castroism in Miami ended up homeless after being evicted from his home.
Ferrer’s gesture —one of the most pursued Cuban opponents by the regime, whom García fought against for years from his platforms— was soon accompanied by a direct critique. Following the offer, the leader of UNPACU published new messages in which he referred to García as a "shrewd rodent" for accusing him of having Carlos Lazo approach him, knowing, Ferrer wrote, “how much the tyranny hates UNPACU.”
In his first post, Ferrer noted that the last time he saw García was in 2016 and added: "Things have gone badly for him in recent years. Serving a criminal dictatorship has consequences. Sometimes it happens more quickly, other times later, but it always has consequences."
The fall of García was documented in a series of live broadcasts that journalist Ernesto Morales compiled and shared on Facebook, garnering tens of thousands of views.
The collapse began on Monday, November 2, when, during a broadcast, García received notification that a judge had signed the eviction order for his home. He had been unable to gather $1,900 in overdue rent. That same night, friends worried about his words called 911, and the police enacted what is known as the Baker Act, leading to his hospitalization at Jackson Memorial in Miami.
Upon being discharged at five in the morning, the hospital sent him to the Miami Rescue shelter in the Overtown neighborhood, which did not admit him due to the lack of a referral from a drug rehabilitation program. García broadcast his situation from beneath a tree, barefoot—his sandals had been lost in the hospital—and with his phone nearly out of battery: “Look at this, no shoes, no shoes, because my sandals were lost and the hospital didn’t find them and they didn’t have any and sent me halfway here.”
A friend paid for three nights at a motel, but when that support ran out, García found himself helpless again, this time sitting at the door of a church asking for food and shelter. In another broadcast, he announced that he would be sleeping on a bench in downtown Miami: "It’s the first time in my entire life that I’m forced to sleep on the street," he said, surrounded by homeless people.
García blamed his situation on Díaz-Canel and the charter agencies and companies that sponsored him, which he claimed turned their backs on him after his confrontation with Carlos Lazo and the Puentes de Amor project. "It's the government of Miguel Mario Díaz Canel Bermúdez that will finish me off," he stated. Despite everything, he declared that he would continue to defend the Revolution and that he would never return to Cuba: "I will not go back because the ones responsible for my situation are those who are in power now."
García suffers from a chronic diabetic neuropathy that prevents him from walking safely, which exacerbates his situation on the street. On the day he slept outdoors, he stated that he had not been able to take his medication or eat.
Arriving in Miami in May 2000, García confessed in 2021 that the Cuban regime had sent him to that city on a "necessary mission," confirming what many suspected. Since then, he was left in a no man's land: ignored by Havana and rejected by the exile community. By August 2025, he admitted to having only 22 dollars in his account and eating once a day. A first eviction process had shaken him in 2023, but the one in November 2026 was definitive.
The paradox of his situation was encapsulated in Ferrer's own offer: the opponent who fought the most for decades offered to bring him food, and then immediately criticized him mercilessly.
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