In a striking performance featuring two contrasting characters—a government official in a plaid shirt indulging in a chicken leg, and a hungry, gagged populace left in darkness—Anna Sofía Benítez Silvente has once again laid bare the official rhetoric and exposed the glaring gap between privilege and poverty in Cuba.
The new video from this 20-year-old content creator has amassed over 565,000 views and 5,760 comments on Facebook. Her depiction, using dark humor and stark honesty, highlights the Cuban regime's blatant hypocrisy.
Posted on her Facebook page, the under-three-minute video is titled with a biblical reference from the Old Testament, condemning legal and administrative corruption: "Isaiah 10:1-2: Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice