The embargo, Camilo Cienfuegos, Hurricane Melissa… We tell you why the “non-Cuban first lady” and the only US congressman born on the Island collided.
MIAMI, United States. – The “not first lady of Cuba”, Lis Cuesta Peraza, noted in
“Despite the criminal US siege that imposes unimaginable material limitations, the State unites an entire country and its resources based on the East, with the safeguarding of human life, in the first place. Today Cuba is inspired by it, Camilo,” wrote.
Shortly after, Cuban-American congressman Carlos A. Giménez—the only member of the U.S. Congress born on the Island—replied from his account: “How is Lis Cuesta like this, if you yourselves from the murderous regime disappeared him? Just like you do with all those who disagree with the dictatorship that tramples on the people of Cuba.”, alluding to the disappearance of Camilo Cienfuegos in 1959.
Cuesta’s publication occurred while Category 5 Hurricane Melissa fully impacted Jamaica with extreme winds and under warnings from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) about “catastrophic winds, flash floods and storm surge” on that island, heading towards eastern Cuba.
The N.H.C. maintains hurricane warnings for the provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo, Holguín and Las Tunas, as well as tropical storm warnings for Camagüey.
In that way @liscuestacubaIf yourselves from the murderous regime disappeared him?
Just as they do with all those who disagree with the dictatorship that tramples on the people of #Cuba.
— Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (@RepCarlos) October 28, 2025
What is known—and what is not—about the disappearance of Camilo Cienfuegos
According to the official Cuban version, Camilo Cienfuegos disappeared on October 28, 1959, when he was flying in a Cessna 310 light plane from Camagüey to Havana. The device was never found and the State presumed the commander dead. Official Cuban media have maintained for decades that the flight faced bad weather. A testimony collected by Escambray attributes to the pilot a phrase about the route detour due to a storm: “The pilot says that we have to deviate because there is a storm.”
Every October 28, the island’s regime remembers the commander with school events and the throwing of flowers into the sea or rivers.
Despite the official version, conflicting hypotheses have circulated since 1959 about what happened that night. Some point to an accident due to bad weather; others, to a demolition by mistake; and there are also accusations from exile sectors and critics of Castroism who attribute the event to a “disappearance” caused by the regime itself.
Until now, this is an episode shrouded in speculation and without conclusive evidence to displace the version of the accident. In this way, the accident story coexists with unproven alternative hypotheses.
Lis Cuesta Peraza, active in X
Lis Cuesta Peraza, an active user of In May, for example, he attacked the head of the US mission in Havana, Mike Hammer.
Last May, the “Cuban non-first lady” echoed of the attacks by Johana Tablada, then deputy director general for the United States of MINREX, who described the American diplomat as “cynical” and “coward” after his statements during the press conference held in Miami on May 23.
“What this shameless person gives is pity… you have to be very unhappy to fulfill such a sad role, he does not even classify as an enemy of caliber,” wrote the wife of the Cuban dictator. “Disgust at the beings we have had to deal with. Homeland or Death! We will win!” he added.
In his press conference, Hammer had carried out a comprehensive analysis of the crisis in Cuba, confirming the failure of the Castro Revolution and that the shortage of electricity, fuel, food and medicine does not respond to any Washington policy.
Cuesta Peraza, current Director of Events at the Ministry of Culture, was born on March 28, 1971 and studied at the Institute of Pedagogical Sciences of Holguín, where she completed a bachelor’s and a master’s degree.
Before his relationship with Díaz-Canel, he worked in the communication department of the Provincial Culture Sector, and later directed the Provincial Center for Books and Literature.
His visibility in the public sphere began when Díaz-Canel took office as first vice president of Cuba, but increased when he was named president. Since then, she has become a companion on international trips, organizer of culinary events, doctor and defender of Castroism on social networks.
Both Díaz-Canel and Cuesta Peraza have rejected the title of “first lady” although, in practice, the official fulfills that function.
