Cuban Grandmother Tearfully Condemns Regime: "People Still Support This"

An emotional and powerful video featuring a Cuban grandmother named Marta has surfaced, in which she tearfully denounces the decades of hardship endured by the Cuban people under the oppressive regime. The video was shared last Sunday on Instagram by content creator @elchicosandyoficial.

"No one knows Cuba like I do, having grown up there since I was a child," Marta begins, her voice breaking as she recalls her mother's struggles. "My mother never saw anything good. She lived through not having sugar, always crying. 'Where can I find sugar?' she would ask me," Marta recounts, sobbing.

The most striking statement she makes is blunt and clear: "People still support this. There are still those who don't understand what it truly is."

Throughout the minute and 46-second video, Marta criticizes the leaders of Mexico, Brazil, and Spain for either supporting or failing to condemn the regime. She wishes they could "go to Cuba with their families to experience hunger and darkness."

She also makes a heartfelt plea to those she sees as allies of the Cuban cause: "When will you do something for that country? Help us, don Antrón, help us, Marco Rubio, and help us, Bukele, this old Cuban woman begs you."

Marta implores for assistance even if she doesn’t live to see it. "Bukele, help us, help the Cubans, even if I don't see it, but let the children and the youth witness it," she pleads, highlighting the desperation of mothers on the island: "So many mothers desperate, without a glass of milk or bread for their children."

She holds the Cuban communism responsible for spreading its destructive model globally: "They spread communism everywhere. They ruined Venezuela. They ruined Nicaragua."

As the video concludes, a voice off-camera attempts to soothe her: "Okay, calm down, Marta, calm down. God will act when the time is right."

Marta's testimony reflects a humanitarian crisis that 80% of Cubans perceive as worse than the Special Period of the 1990s, according to data from the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights in March 2026. Seven out of ten Cubans have skipped meals due to money shortages or scarcity, a number that rises to eight out of ten among those over 61 years old.

The mention of sugar is significant: Cuba's sugar industry is currently experiencing its worst performance in over 125 years, even worse than in 1899, with rationing worsening as of April 2026. This is compounded by power outages lasting up to 25 hours a day and a GDP decline exceeding 4% as acknowledged by Díaz-Canel himself in December 2025.

"I no longer live by day or night. I only think about when the day will come. When will those bandits be removed?" Marta concludes, encapsulating the exhaustion of an entire generation that has lived and survived six decades of dictatorship.