Who is “Vampirach”, the grandson influencer of Fidel Castro who enjoys the regime and irritates Cuba

With your Instagram videos, ‘Vampirach’ is in the mouth of everyone in Cuba. The character played by Sandro Castro, grandson of the leader of the revolution and ancient dictator Fidel Castro, enhances some, irritates others – and causes excitement on the island of Caribbean.

Dresses as a monk or like ‘vampire vampirach’, kitten with a kitten or with a Barcelona jersey, Sandro Castro33, she has 120,000 followers, and usually publishes sketches full of simplistic jokes – without worrying about showing great dowries of representation.

Occasionally, Ironizes with the difficulties that the island faces in its deep crisis, with food shortage And medicines, as well as daily electricity cuts and lack of fuel, says the AFP agency.

“I woke up today with my favorite recipe, chicken with beer… And there is no chicken“, He says in a video, while showing the Crystal National Beer, which he renamed ‘Cristach‘.

In another video, under the intense summer sun, Sandro is refreshed into an old tank on a roof in front of a US flag. “There is no better pool than the ghetto tank“He says.

‘Vampirach’ also plays with long and frequent energy cuts Electric: “If I lie with you like the Electricity Company, I give you every four hours and from Monday to Monday,” he said in Reel.

Your followers celebrate it and They even call it “next president” on social networks – but the most friendly voices towards the communist government ask silenced.

With its peculiar videos and simple jokes, the grandson of the former Cuban dictator both collects sympathy and rejectionin a country jammed in a deep economic crisis and where Humor on social networks can be expensivesays the Spanish edition of.

“Sandro is not the ‘enemy’ of the Cuban revolution, even if it causes damage because of its nickname; Sandro is an imbecile“On your Facebook page the writer Ernesto Limia. “The grandson of Fidel Castro No affection for your grandfatherIt doesn’t even respect your memory, ”adds the writer.

In May, the rapper Michel The Legend dedicated a song to ‘Vampirach’ to “Unmask the Cuban dictator’s grandsonthe one who boasts of luxuries, parties, beer and pools while The Cuban people are hungry, blackouts and misery“.

“While the Cuban people are obliged to march, without food, without light And without hope… the dictator’s grandson, Sandrito El Cristach The Vampirachit is displayed on the hotel pools and your private bar, ”writes the Cuban musician in a comment posted on the video posted on his YouTube channel.

‘The fool’another known “Influencer” but pro-governmentalso expressed on Facebook his irritation with the publications of ‘Vampirach’ and expresses his Disclaimer with the inaction of the Cuban Police. “What Sandro is doing is against the security of this country and against the ideals ”of the revolution“, it says.

In Cuba, independent activists and journalists are frequently summoned for state security for its positions against the government on social networks. Some are serving penalties for crimes related to their publications.

To Manuel Cuesta Morúadissident that promotes the democratic transition in Cuba, the phenomenon Sandro reflects “The distance from the generation of grandchildren Regarding the original project of the revolution ”which triumphed in 1959.

“Your intense activity on social networks, in a grotesque wayis the only thing that distinguishes you from your family, which discreetly enjoys privileges and personifies a New Cuban aristocracy.

While Fidel Castro was alive, Cubans knew little About his late wife, Dalia Soto del Valle And their five children, of the seven that the former leader had. Far from political life, they live in Punto Cero, a large area wooded west of Havana, with restricted access to the military and reserved for the Castro family.

The dictator’s brother, Raúl Castrowhich succeeded him on the “throne” of the Cuban regime in 2021. His nephew-grade became known precisely this year, during the pandemic, after releasing a video that showed him to conduct a luxury Mercedes-Benz.

“From time to time it takes take these toys we have at home“, Sandro Castro said in the video – which became quickly viral, the population indicated, and would make the way for leadership… Of the hearings on Cuban social networks.