The 25 biggest Spanish 'influencers' invited by Díaz-Canel to promote tourism: 'We eat lobster every day.'

Delighted by the wonders available to tourists but forbidden to the 99% of the Cuban population, they were taken on a yacht trip on the Canímar River, the site of the massacre of 56 migrants in 1980

On July 8, "the most important Spanish Influencers" arrived in Cuba. With about 120 million followers on social networks, they were invited to the island to reactivate tourism in a coma after the pandemic. The 25 were greeted with all the luxuries in hotels such as Iberostar Packard, Meliá Internacional de Varadero, Royalton Prado, and the Canadian chain Blue Diamante. The 25 were taken on a yacht trip on the Canímar River (they were not told that it is the site of the massacre of 56 migrants fleeing the communist paradise by two castrate patrol boats) and, as the same influencers boast on their networks, they eat lobster "seven days a week." The "young talents," delighted by the wonders available to tourists but forbidden to the 99% of the Cuban population, filled their profiles with paradisiacal images in line with the propaganda of the Cuban government. Nickname, the agency representing the influencers, refused to provide the names. Still, their clients' social networks were filled with comments from thousands of followers who hurried to recognize them and criticized the intention behind the trip to Cuba and their connection to the regime. Claudia Tropiezos, a Cuban YouTuber living in Spain, accused them of destroying everything Cuban influencers "who know the truth about Cuba" try to denounce and called the regime "hypocritical" for sponsoring the visit. At the same time, "they don't have a kilo to feed people." Over the past year, the Cuban government has taken desperate steps to attract customers to the numerous newly built luxury hotels that remained 84.4% empty, according to the latest official data from the dictatorship's own National Bureau of Statistics and Information.

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