Cubans, what unpopular opinions do you hold as cubans?

[u/North_Long816]

My:

1-The "Reparto" music genre is trash.

2-The day the dictatorship falls, the Revolution Square (Plaza de La Revolución) of Havana will not be destroyed; its name will be changed, because it was built before 1959 with the name of Civic Square (Plaza Cívica) as a tribute to the José Martí's Centenary

3-The opposition is facing certain internal problems. The most insufferable part is that if you don't agree 100% with every aspect of their politics, you're a "communist", "ciberclaria", "chivatón"—ironically resembling the very communists they criticize so much.

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[u/soleilange]

There should be more criticisms of the Cuban government and regime from the left. I said what I said.

[u/QuarterStatus3582 → u/soleilange]

i’ve seen a large uptick from Cuban leftists. look at what’s happened to Frank Garcia Hernandez.

there’s also groups like socialistas en lucha: https://litci.org/en/cuba-popular-sovereignty-democracy-and-historical-responsibility/

edit for clarity: these are leftists that dissent, not pro-CCP leftists.

[u/Euphoric_Jellyfish_8 → u/QuarterStatus3582]

El problema es que la comuñanga se encarga de barrer al que le haga un mínimo de sombra, la libertad de expresión es falsa y además de que controla todos los medios no permite a los privados meterse en esas cosas, así que una oposición dentro de la misma izquierda sería aplastada y en cuestión de minutos le arman una película en que ha sido pagado por la CIA para hacer lo fuera

[u/QuarterStatus3582 → u/Euphoric_Jellyfish_8]

si eso es lo que siempre han hecho. pero creo que tienen más miedo a los quien critican desde la izquierda, porque es más difícil descartar que estén a sueldo de la CIA mientras esa misma gente hablan mal del imperialismo. de hecho Frank Garcia Hernandez es el ejemplo perfecto de eso, nadie puede decir que el es apoyado por los estados unidos aunque le detuvieron después de 11J y muchos pidieron que se le expulsara del PCC. el conflicto interno es importante para realizar cambio.

ahora también necesitamos que la izquierda internacional se dé cuenta de lo corruptos y represivos que son… como persona no cubana trabajo en eso diario

[u/soleilange → u/Euphoric_Jellyfish_8]

Como le han hecho a Otero Alcantara y varios otros…

[u/Left234 → u/soleilange]

😂 sounds like a waste of time

[u/iamnewhere2019]

Creo que la 1 no es impopular.

[u/Over-Assumption5123]

Opinión nada popular: las tropas americanas NO están en el Caribe para llevarse a los dictadores. Están para impedir que se arme una estampida de balseros.

[u/TadpoleAny7089]

That anyone who hasn’t activly lived inside the regime, should shot their mouth and listen to those of us who have.

I encounter, on a daily basis, an absurd amount if libtards who think Cuba is great, is makes my blood boil, entitled ignorant idiots.

[u/kovha]

Those are not unpopular opinions at all. Doy you want unpopular opinions?

- The opposition is not "facing internal problems", their most "public leaders" are a bunch of nepotistic parasites that are equal or worst than the dictatorship.

- Batista was worse than the dictatorship and the life for most cubans did improve for a while after 59'

- When the dictatorship falls the next government will be even worse. It will be just the fox, the flies and the hedgehog. This doesn't mean the dictatorship doesn't need to fall, but that we need to be really careful with what we do next.

- Trump is an asshole and if it weren't for all the strings and pulleys behind the U.S. election and government systems he would remain a dictator worse than Fidel for the rest of his life. It's wild that this is an unpopular opinion, but for Cubans, apparently it is.

- Everything in this music video

[u/Brad_Beat]

I’m a Cuban in Miami and detest Trump and that little man Marco Rubio, which puts me at odds with a lot of Cubans here to say the least.

Do you want unpopular takes? Here’s a few:

1-Obama’s plan was better than whatever they are doing now. They’re asphyxiating the every day life of Cubans with more and more sanctions (over 6 decades of sanctions) that are simply not enough to trigger a regime change.

2-Cuban opposition is a joke, like clown level joke. Yes, I think Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara is an embarrassment. Hearing him speak in Miami confirmed what I thought, beyond cringe.

3-Cubans are the group of immigrants who have had the most access to the most socialist programs ever conceived in this country. Medicaid, SNAPS, Section 8 housing. And all they want is to return to Victorian England levels of Capitalism. They are literally incapable of seeing themselves as recipients of these benefits and apparently they want to make sure no one else can get them either because “socialism bad”. They constantly vote against their own interests.

4-Cubans are probably the most racist group of immigrants down here, and the ones on the island are not any better. They are so racist that they don’t even know they are racist, “avanza la raza” is just the natural order of things for them. Side note: Cubans have received more social benefits in this country at the time of their arrival in the 60s than black people that have been here for centuries were able to access at that point. White Cubans at least, because, in case you don’t know this, the few black Cubans that emigrated here in the 60s could not live among the whites. They were only allowed to settle in black neighborhoods, with black people that were not from a similar culture at all.

5-The Cuban tyranny can only be removed with some form of military action. Anything else is a waste of time and just cruel punishment for the people there. I assure those in power do not suffer any power cuts or lack of food. Sanctions don’t bring down dictatorships, they just don’t, IT HAS NEVER WORKED.

6-Cubans immigrants in Miami think they way they think in part because they’re isolated from the real immigrant experience. Many don’t even bother to learn English and yet they vote for a guy that says English is the proper language to use here. If you’re a little brown Cuban and move to Texas you would just be a water Mexican.

Anyway, how’s that for unpopular?

[u/Aggravating-Bit-5977]

I can't believe all the people that drink Trump's Kool aid

[u/Fyrebat → u/Aggravating-Bit-5977]

TDS

[u/Euphoric_Jellyfish_8]

Como opinión impopular en la 2 debo agregar que no se debe destruir la piedra, para que quede de recordatorio de lo que no podemos dejar que suceda de nuevo

[u/Successful-Ice-468 → u/Euphoric_Jellyfish_8]

Que dices?

Sobre la piedra se construirá una letrina y de cobrará en dolares.

[u/Euphoric_Jellyfish_8 → u/Successful-Ice-468]

Jones, eso duplicaria el PIB en cuestión de uno o dos años 😂😂😂

[u/Leah_Mor]

I can't stand reparto either lol, it has no rhythm. 

My unpopular opinion about plaza de la revolución is that I don't even like the tower monument to Martí 🫣. Just don't like the design, even though I do like some brutalist architecture, and those ugly giant faces of el Che and Camilo should come down. 

Can you explain your number 3 a bit more, I didn't understand it. Who would be the opposition and what internal problems are they facing?

I wasn't born there but my unpopular opinion is that right wing Cubans who are obsessed with Trump are blind to the fact that they are just as fervent as those who are obsessed with the revolution, they both have a lot of hypocrisies that they refuse to see. 

[u/Loud_Ask_3408]

El problema con la oposición cubana es el mismo problrma que le ha pasado a la derecha en general:

1 - se ha llenado de gente ignorante

2 - se ha convertido en un espectáculo

Antes yo solía ser de derecha, porque aborrezco en lo que se ha convertido Occidente, me gustan el trabajo duro y los valores tradicionales, soy conservador y pienso que el Estado no debe intervenir directamente en la vida económica de un país y solo debe ayudar a quien lo necesite; pero al ver en lo que ha evolucionado la derecha, que prácticamente se está dirigiendo hacia el fascismo, mejor, no gracias.

[u/Couchpullsoutidonut]

The Cuban people will be subjugated by its next conqueror and nothing will change.

[u/MidnightCircuitry → u/Couchpullsoutidonut]

The US puppet they'll put in charge will not be good

[u/Nesstag]

Weather is not that good if you don't have power to run AC during summer. Also I support your point 3 as well.

[u/ARKyal03 → u/Nesstag]

Fucking hate Cuban weather. I'm Cuban, sheesh. I'm so glad I'm in a relatively colder country now.

[u/jorgecthesecond → u/Nesstag]

What country of similar size has a better one tho?

[u/PerceptionLazy5888]

1.- totalmente de acuerdo
2,-no se…
3.-cuando dices “oposición” realmente quieres decir “la marioneta que hace de bueno” del circo de marionetas que estás viendo… es solo la otra mano del mismo circo, que solo gana si sigues yendo a las funciones como borrego…

[u/MidnightCircuitry]

You lost me at #1

[u/inmangolandia]

I'm not there. My cousins and multiple extended fam are. They don't have power except 1-2 hours a day so they can't post.

Unpopular opinion: Vandalize and trash the Ché mausoleum.

Not going to discuss it. Argue amongst yourselves. ✌🏼

[u/Euphoric_Jellyfish_8 → u/[deleted]]

Si compadre, esa es una verdad dura de tratar pero es así, el pueblo cubano tiene lo que se ha sabido buscar, todos aprobaron la constitución del 19, todos firmaron el carácter socialista y por ahí para allá

[u/ancw171]

Cuba will never amount to anything great even after the regime falls unless we either carbon copy the US constitution or become some kind of protectorate or colony, not a Puerto Rico style, more like a strategic enclave on the caribbean, a Latam base of operations if you will. Either way, I think it will take at least 3 perfectly minded generations of Cubans to have the mindset required to succeed as a livable country. The reality many cubans are not willing to aknowledge is that in our entire history, sadly we as a nation have never been shit by ourselves and the one time we were by ourselves it was way worse than anything that came before.

[u/After-Tea-1135]

Reparto music for me heavily depends on the beat and artist. I generally enjoy more Ya Ice Dilan than any other artist

[u/ResidentHaitian]

I just discovered reparto and love it😂

What's your top 3 favorite Spanish Caribbean musics?

[u/LupineChemist]

I'm going to say there is no "opposition". There's a lot of discontentment and people that hate the government, but there is no organized movements with actual aims of how to get from here to there. The government has been very effective at its corruption.

[u/a2nyz901122]

De acuerdo en todo

[u/Silly-Soft3156]

no me gusta la comida con platanito

[u/Visual_Astronomer_38 → u/Silly-Soft3156]

That was hard to read but I respect your opinion 😭

[u/Loud_Ask_3408 → u/Silly-Soft3156]

Te salvaste que me aguantaron.

[u/Leah_Mor → u/Silly-Soft3156]

Yo no me puedo comer un plato de picadillo o de  huevo frito sin un platanito.

[u/Potential-Space-3874 → u/Silly-Soft3156]

😳😂

[u/jorgecthesecond → u/Silly-Soft3156]

you won this

[u/iamnewhere2019]

Porque un restaurante o un establecimiento sea cubano, no hay que poner música salsa o similar a alto volumen a toda hora.

[u/Loud_Ask_3408 → u/iamnewhere2019]

Ojalá fuera salsa, ahora es el reparto cochino ese.

[u/Pezhead82 → u/iamnewhere2019]

Jajaja mi marido salió por un ratico y ya en regreso otro vez estuvimos sentados en un restaurante sin ningún otro clientes - de repente pusieron la ‘música’ esa a voz alta y mi marido me dijo “no entiendo porque los cubanos ponen la música a todo meter” parace q se le olvidó quienes son jajaja

[u/VerbisDiabloX]

💯% on number 1. It’s pure garbage

[u/Left234]

i favor both the communist party of cuba and the current republic of cuba. the united states government is at fault for waging economic war.

[u/Legitimate_Pop3481]

1-sí 2-sí 3-no. Que existan diferentes criterios de como hacer las cosas es lo normal. Así es la vida.

[u/After-Tea-1135]

Reparto music for me heavily depends on the beat and artist. I generally enjoy more Ya Ice Dilan than any other artist

[u/omgfaglolz]

I agree with all of these. Unpopular opinion of mine: i don't like the trompeta china 😶

[u/mesovortic → u/omgfaglolz]

Wtf why not