AREQUIPA, Peru – The Cuban influencer known as Flor de Cuba arrived in the United States this Tuesday for a temporary stay, as she commented on her social networks. Her departure from the Island had a mixed reception from her followers and the Cuban community in exile.
The Cuban, who has developed a profile as a content creator, is known for fraternizing with personalities of the Cuban regime, including Sandro Castrograndson of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
In addition to sharing images together, the influencer defended Castro recently after people criticized the ostentation and luxuries that the young Cuban usually displays on Instagram.
“No one is to blame for being born where they are born. It is difficult to be born in a powerful family or to be born in a family with certain rules (…) One cannot from the outside judge someone for having been born where they were born. It is very easy to judge, but it is very difficult to put yourself in people’s shoes,” Flor noted in one of her videos.
During her first day in Miami, the young Cuban shared that the first thing she had done was buy clothes. She also revealed that she had signed a contract with Destiny Tolk, another content creator, and a jewelry store in the city.
Among the congratulations of several consumers of her content, other comments criticized the controversial statements made by the influencer in the past.
“Wasn’t this girl the same one who said that in Cuba she had everything that she didn’t need to leave there?” asked a user. on Tik Tok identified as Awo Otura Aira.
“So many people who really need it. “I don’t understand anything, you said that Cuba was safe. Why did you leave?” wrote Yuri, another Internet user.
Flor de Cuba received a five-year tourist visa that she processed at the US embassy in Guyana, with which she left the Island with her boyfriend. “To come and go whenever I want,” she highlighted.
The content creator, who aspires to develop a career as a singer, has stated that she is the “most followed in Cuba.” He has used such visibility to a large extent to share the image of a Cuba of bars, festivals, exclusivity and entertainment, very far from the most immediate reality that the people experience as the energy crisis and shortages of food or medicine.
Currently, Flor de Cuba has more than 570,000 followers on Instagram, about 168,000 on Tik Tok, and around 10,000 subscribers on YouTube. But beyond her success in her networks, on a personal level she has experienced some difficult times due to her drug addiction for 13 years.
“I have lost houses. I have lost money. “I have lost my health, but what hurts me the most is not being able to raise my children,” the influencer said in an interview for Chungito Podcast.
In her early youth, the Cuban experimented with various narcotics, although it was crack or “the stone,” as it is also known in Cuba, that led her to develop addiction. The illness led to several crises and depression problems.
Flor de Cuba today recognizes that she now has the addiction under control and has been healthy for some time. In the family environment he has been able to balance his life. In her first days in Miami she announced that on future visits she will return accompanied by her children, so that they also have the opportunity to get to know the United States.
