Fidel grandson and “influencer”: Sandro Castro makes Cuba talk

With his wacky videos published on Instagram, “Vampirach” is talked about in Cuba: this character interpreted by Sandro Castro, one of the grandsons of former manager Fidel Castro, amused or annoyed by his provocations.

Disguised as a monk. Therefore, vampire (“vampirach”), made up as a small cat or dressed in the Barça jersey, the 33 -year -old young man, who has 120,000 subscribers, regularly posts on the social network of video sketch videos of which he plays the main role.

This brown. Similarly, decked out in round sunglasses, does not hesitate to sometimes quip in the economic difficulties that the Communist Island crosses, undermined by electricity cuts and shortages.

“I got up this morning with my favorite recipe, from beer chicken, but … For example, there is no chicken,” he said, brandishing crystal beer, national beer, of which he fidel grandson “influencer”: sandro castro made his talisman.

Shirtless. However, in front of an American flag, we see him refresh in a water tank, of those that dot the roofs of Havana because of the frequent water cuts: “There is no better swimming pool than the ghetto tank,” he says.

Daily electrical load shedding also inspires him: “If I take you as one (the national electricity company). Furthermore, it’s every four hours from Monday to Monday,” he said to a woman in a video.

His subscribers on the social network ask for more and some want to make him the “next president”. Similarly, But votes close to the government are annoyed.

“Sandro is a fool” who “has no affection for his grandfather. respects his memory,” denounced the writer Ernesto Limia on his Facebook page.

El Nécio. an “influencer” close to the Cuban Communist Party, regrets, also on Facebook, that Sandro was not recalled to order fidel grandson “influencer”: sandro castro by the security of the state, because “he goes against the security of this country” and “against the ideals” of the Castor Revolution of 1959.

In Cuba. human rights activists and independent journalists are regularly arrested and questioned by the police for their critical tickets posted on social networks. Some have been convicted of their publications.

«Grotesque»

For dissident Manuel Cuesta Morua. the “Sandro” phenomenon reflects the “distance” between those who have carried the “original project of the revolution and the generation of their small children”.

His activity on social networks “in grotesque” mode is “the only thing that distinguishes him from the rest of his family” which enjoys “more discreetly” from privileges. embodies a new Cuban aristocracy, estimates the opponent.

When Fidel Castro (1926-2016) was still alive. the Cubans knew little about his last wife, Dalia Soto Del Valle, and their five sons – out of the seven children fidel grandson “influencer”: sandro castro that had the leader.

Distant to political responsibilities. they lived in Punto Cero, a vast property in western Havana, reserved for the family and guarded by soldiers.

Sandro Castro became known in 2021. in full pandemic, when he appeared in a video that filtered on social networks where he was seen driving a luxurious Mercedes. “We are simple people. but from time to time we have to take out the small toys that we have at home,” he said in the extract that has become viral and who had indignant the population.

Faced with an uproar, he had to apologize.

At the end of 2024. he had again created the controversy by announcing a party for his birthday in the bar of which he owned Havana, while the country was barely recovered from a general power cut.

Before the appearance of Sandro as “influencer”. an account of the social network fidel grandson “influencer”: sandro castro X, under the name of Alexis Castro del Valle, his father, had already been talked about.

This account. of which AFP could not verify authenticity, debated politics and economics in Cuba, not hesitating to question government decisions. He stopped after eleven months of activity.

Alexis Castro and his brothers never held a position of responsibility in Cuba. This is not the case with their cousins, the children of Raul Castro, 94, in power from 2006 to 2021.

Her daughter Mariela is a deputy. director of the National Center for Sexual Education and her son Alejandro directed secret negotiations with the United States in 2014. Raul Guillermo, his grandson, is his inseparable bodyguard.