Sandro Castro, Fidel’s ‘influencer’ grandson who asks to reach an agreement with Trump: “Cuba wants to be capitalist”

Castro33 years old, runs a nightclub called EFE Barwhich has become a symbol of the controversy that his figure generates in the country and the controversy that his image generates.

Unlike the lives of the rest of his relatives, who are intensely reserved and often secretive, Sandro openly seeks fame and notoriety. He even dares to trolear to the communist government of the island.

Sandro accumulates more than 150,000 followers on Instagram. It’s all a influencer in the country y It tries to show an image related to their nocturnal lifestyle, in a life full of luxuries that contrasts with the scarcity suffered by the majority of the Cuban population.

In the interview, he assured that what he does on networks is “misunderstood” and that he “simply” tries to “make people happy”, at a time of growing tension between the US and Cuba. US President Donald Trump himself has gone so far as to say that “Cuba is finished.”

In the latest video published by the eccentric grandson of the Cuban dictator, he has mocked the intentions of Trump to buy the Caribbean island.

This post in a short video on Instagram It showed an actor with a crooked wig pretending to be the president, arriving at Castro’s door and trying to buy Cuba from him.

“We can do business because you are a showman and businessman like me,” the fake Trump tells the real Castro.

“You want to buy what!?” Castro responds. “Relax!” Castro responded in this sketch. “I’m making videos about a tense and sad situation,” he explained to the CNN.

Sandro explains that “seeks to entertain the population” and that “he also suffers” the consequences of the multiple blackouts and the weak Cuban economy, despite the fact that his life has never been free of luxuries.

A privileged life

Castro’s posts offer a rare glimpse into a life of privilege. From time to time he takes advantage of these posts to throw darts against the communist “bureaucrats” who succeeded both his grandfather, who died in 2016, and his great-uncle. Raul Castrowho left the presidency in 2018.

Critics often see Castro as the embodiment of his family’s elitism. In his videos, he flaunts beer, beautiful women, trendy Nike clothing, and a luxurious-looking house.

Fidel, his grandfather, also did not live a frugal life: he was famous for wearing two Rolex watches at once.

As transmitted by the Cuban critic in exile Guennady Rodríguez on your channel YouTubein words collected by the media New York Timeswhat Sandro does is “open a window on the Castro family.”

“These people have asked the Cuban people to sacrifice a lot over the years. But Sandro is the exact opposite of what they have been preaching, with his excessive consumerism“, critical.

While many on the island struggle to get essentials like milk for their babies, his business posts videos of the cocktails and freshly baked pizzas he sells, topped with mounds of ham.

The bar he owns serves gin and tonics for 1,000 pesos (approximately 1.50 euros at the informal exchange rate), while a mojito costs 700 pesos, according to his menu.

In addition to running this night business, he has indicated his intention to take over other establishments, but he has lamented the difficulty of starting a business in the country due to the “excess bureaucracy“.

In the interview with CNNpointed out that “Cuba must eliminate bureaucracy” and that it is “necessary” to open the economic model, which means ending the communist regime, at least in the field of the economy.

Away from politics

Born in 1991, Sandro is the son of Alexis Castro del Valleone of Fidel’s five children. Alexis became a photographer and television camera technician with the intention of staying out of politics.

Regarding his political opinion, Sandro has clarified to CNNthat he “He is a revolutionary, but a revolutionary of ideasof progress, of change.” Regarding Díaz-Canel’s role, he has criticized that “he’s not doing a good job“.

Regarding the possibility of an agreement with Trump, he explained that “many people” want Cuba to become a “society.” capitalist“but with”sovereignty“.

He was open to political change, and went so far as to say that he “believes” that “a majority of Cubans“He wants to be capitalist, and not communist.

While he denies having done be a millionaire and he rejects the possibility that his family connections protect him or make his life easier.

His nightclub on a main avenue in Havana It cost about 50,000 euros in exchange. He insists that “he is just another citizen” and that He does not have benefits for being Fidel’s grandson.

“The little I have is thanks to my effort, my sacrifice,” he said.

For staunch supporters of the Cuban revolution, Sandro Castro is a class traitor of the proletariattaking advantage of its revolutionary lineage to get clicks and likes.

In 2025, Pedro Jorge Velázquezalso influencer Cuban known in the Caribbean country as “The Fool“, and defender of the regime, pointed out Fidel’s grandson in a forceful message on social networks, in which requested his arrest.

“Sandro Castro is an ideological enemy. It hurts that no State security authority has shown up at his house, because what he is doing goes against the security of this country,” he said.

For the Cuban exiles who fled the country as a result of the revolution, it is a symbol of absolute hypocrisy as a descendant of a communist leader who banned private industry for decades and advocated austerity.

Castro also has support in networks. His followersor have encouraged him to directly criticize his familya crime punishable on the island that he has avoided until now, despite the fact that he has made publications with a veiled criticism of the Government.

In a video posted on his profile Instagramcaresses the nozzle of a gas station in a sexual way, with the intention of criticizing the lack of fuel in Cuba after the blockade of Venezuelan oil on the part of the Trump Administration.

“But what is this? I’ve been 24 hours and nothing comes out,” he says in the video published last month amid widespread gasoline shortages.

“Another day here in Apagonia, with tremendous thirst,” he says in another publication, using an informal term given to Cuba to refer to widespread power outages on the island.

Castro himself assured the CNN that his videos have led to it being summoned for interrogation on the part of the Cuban State Securityalthough they let him go freely with a warning.

According to him, he has not been arrested nor has he had any further problems with the law because he has never called for “a change of regime” or made a “call for violence”, and not because of his last name.