Ysneri Oliva, a woman originally from the municipality of Pilรณn, in the eastern Cuban province of Granma, He shared a post on social media with an image of a man next to two dolls, one of them with a sign on his chest with the name Marco Rubio. It should be remembered that in recent years it has become a tradition in Cuba to bid farewell to the Old Year by burning a doll.
Along with the post in which the man appears next to the dolls made of straw, cardboard and old clothes, and several alcoholic beverages at the foot of the individual, Oliva wrote: "We are saying goodbye to the old year to welcome the new one with prosperity and joy, so that the people feel happy with the new year here on Pantaleรณn Street, so that all the Cuban people feel happy and celebrate the new year with this initiative."
Dozens of users reacted to the post by this woman identified as Ysneri Oliva, particularly Cubans who found the so-called "initiative" unpleasant and a product of a lack of judgment.
"The Diazca puppet didn't seem to catch on. Marco Rubio is the year that starts, not the one that ends.#CubaFailedState "so you know," wrote an islander identified as Orlando Vargas.
"Because of those things, specifically those...that's why we are where we are, and we'll even be worse off, everyone reaps what they sow," said Michael Ung.
"That's exactly why they stay off for 20 hours a day, they deserve it," someone else commented.
The name given to the puppet is striking, given that Marco Rubio is a Cuban-American senator who will serve as US Secretary of State under the next Donald Trump administration, and is a fierce critic of the Havana regime and the dictatorship of Nicolรกs Maduro. So it is simply no coincidence that they named the puppet as the politician who could collaborate to toughen the foreign policy of the next US government towards the communist island.
On the other hand, on many occasions the Cuban dictatorship has used the official press to demonize Marco Rubio, and a recent editorial in the organ of the Cuban Communist Party, the Granma newspaper, described the senator as "a dark figure who did not bode well for the world" with the aim of defaming and discrediting his work as a US politician.
"Senator Rubio is a known, confessed and committed enemy of Cuba, so the fact that he holds an important responsibility is not good news for Cuba, nor do I think it is good news for the United States," said Castro regime official Carlos Fernรกndez de Cossรญo at the time, upon learning that Trump had named the Cuban-American politician as the new Secretary of State.
The truth is that the Cuban dictatorship is nervous and desperate about the role that Rubio will have starting next January 20, when Trump is sworn in as the new president of the United States, in a completely different context than the one Cuba had in 2016-2020, during the Republican's first term. At this moment, the Island is experiencing its worst crisis in decades, with totally worn-out political allies like Venezuela and Russia, and a population sunk in misery.
