A TikTok video shared by user @la.bellademipaiz has stirred up social media by capturing a Cuban woman's visit to a wax museum, where she seized the moment to voice her displeasure at the wax figure of Fidel Castro, the deceased Cuban dictator.
In the video, the woman, laughing, approaches Castro's statue with words soaked in irony and personal grievance: “Because of you, I stopped eating cookies and cereals in preschool. You are utterly shameless, terrible, and deceitful. This is how you deserved to end, reeking like a scoundrel.”
She concludes her monologue by playfully delivering a symbolic “slap” to the wax figure, an action interpreted by some as a rejection of Castro's legacy and by others as an irreverent joke. The scene captures the sentiment of many Cubans who use humor and sarcasm to express their frustration with the hardships endured during Castro's regime and its lingering effects today.
The symbolic "slap" has become a gesture that, for some, signifies dissatisfaction with decades of policies that have affected the daily lives of citizens.