Yuslaine Pérez Moya, a young Cuban content creator, has sparked laughter across social media with a prank video where she seriously tells her grandmother she's contemplating moving back to Cuba. "Oh grandma, I think I’m going to Cuba; I’m so fed up with having to pay for everything here. Pay for this, pay for that... I’m about to return the car to the dealer, to the bank, and head to Cuba with my kids. Over there, you don’t have to pay rent or anything," Yuslaine complains in the video.
The grandmother's response, with her typical Cuban common sense, was swift: "But you have to pay for food, which is very expensive. You’re crazy!" The conversation carries on with Yuslaine suggesting sending her grandmother back to Cuba for a few months: "And I’m thinking of sending you there for three or four months now," she says with a straight face.
"Not three or four months, three or four days. I’ve been there long enough, 75 years!" the grandmother retorts without missing a beat. "Don’t you want to go back to your country, where you were born?" the granddaughter asks, to which the grandmother quickly responds, "No, I want to visit my family and come right back."
Yuslaine pushes the idea of starting a business in Cuba, suggesting, "I think if I set up a small business there and you send me things from here, I could make a lot of money." The grandmother, unimpressed, asks, "And what will you do with all that money?"
"Live life. You can't live life here; you have to live to pay, working," concludes the granddaughter, while the grandmother looks at her as if she's completely out of her mind.
The amusing exchange has elicited numerous reactions on social media, with many users resonating with the satire and the grandmother's unmistakable logic, who clearly believes her days of sacrifice in the island are behind her.