THIS…IS CNN: Now Conducting PR for Fidel Castro’s Nepo Grandbaby #Political
In a new low, the once-vaunted Cable News Network is now reduced to running crisis communications for the nepo grandbabies of Latin American communist dictators. A recent interview of Fidel Castro’s grandson demonstrates the rot at CNN.
Watch and try not to gag as CNN’s man in Havana, Patrick Oppmann, unironically asks Sandro Castro why the Cuban people hate his family so much:
THIS...IS CNN- now conducting public relations for Fidel Castro's surviving relatives. When asked why so many people hate the Castro family, Fidel's grandson says "it's complicated." Perhaps the expropriations and executions and summary imprisonments had something to do with it.… pic.twitter.com/SuYp3xHTnu
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PATRICK OPPMANN: Cuba's leaders reject attempts to blame them for the crisis. And Sandro Castro says officials have questioned him about his often surreal and critical postings. As well, Cuban exiles regularly attack him online, he says.
Why do you think there are people, though, that hate the Castro family so much?
SANDRO CASTRO: It’s complicated. Many Cubans would have liked to have been capitalist. I think the majority of Cubans want to be capitalist, not communist. That has created differences, a hatred which is not productive.
Oppmann heard that and offered no pushback whatsoever. To be clear, it is true that Cubans would have preferred capitalism to 67 years of murderous communism. And that is precisely why so many on the island and beyond hate the Castro family- specifically, Fidel and Raul.
To be clear, the reasons that so many hate the Castros are the imprisonments, expropriations, and public summary executions. This, in addition to the constant spying, the military adventurism all over the globe, and the constant repression of Cuban citizens for doing in private what Fidel’s grandson did on CNN- criticizing the regime.
The entirety of the interview flowed like this, a transparent piece of communicational rehab for the Castro family ahead of a potential deal with the United States. Young Sandro is simply trying to get ahead of the coming change by expressing support for whatever changes to the system President Trump may introduce, and Oppmann is all too happy to oblige.
This shameful interview proves that, like many of the classic buildings in Old Havana, CNN is in crumbling decay.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned segment as aired on CNN’s The Briefing with Jim Sciuto on Monday, March 30th, 2026:
JIM SCIUTTO: More from Cuba now, where CNN's Patrick Oppmann sat down with the influencer grandson of Fidel Castro, of course, the man who led the island for almost five decades. In an exclusive interview, the two discussed his political differences with his grandfather and his support of Donald Trump's economic policies.
PATRICK OPPMAN: In this social media satire video, Donald Trump arrives in Cuba to buy the island. While this Trump is a fake, he's dealing with a real member of the Castro family. Fidel Castro's grandson Sandro Castro, an influencer and nightclub impresario who says he has no interest in politics. The very public face of an otherwise still mysterious family that has held power in Cuba for nearly seven decades. At an interview in his apartment in Havana, Sandro Castro says he is a sign of the changing times on the communist-run island.
And what would your grandfather, Fidel Castro, say? That you're more capitalist than communist?
SANDRO CASTRO (IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES): My grandfather was a person who had his principles like everyone else. But he also respected others’ opinions. That’s my way of thinking.
OPPMANN: But all the capitalists had to leave Cuba.
CASTRO: There are many people in Cuba that think in a capitalistic way. There are many people who want to have capitalism with sovereignty.
OPPMANN: When we arrived for the interview, the neighborhood Castro lives in is in a blackout. A near-constant condition these days with the U.S. oil blockade, and power plants breaking down. Sandro Castro's apartment is lit by an electric generator, but from his balcony, the surrounding houses are in near-total darkness. He shows me his on- bedroom bachelor pad, how he lacks paint for the wall, how his fridge is nearly empty except for the Cuban beer he's always drinking. I point out that the appliance is a foreign brand that most Cubans could never hope to afford. His famous last name, Sandro Castro, wants people to know, doesn't come with any special treatment in a Cuba on the edge of economic collapse.
CASTRO: We have to fight, as we say in Cuba. It’s tough, so tough.
OPPMAN: Even for a Castro- (SPANISH) It’s tough, even for a Castro?
CASTRO: Very tough. Very tough because you suffer through thousands of problems, IN a day, there might not be electricity, no water. Goods don’t arrive. It’s so hard, really hard.
OPPMANN: But being a Castro must help you.
CASTRO: My name is my name. I am proud of my name, logically.But I don’t see this help you are talking about. I’m one more citizen.
OPPMAN: Cuba faces unprecedented U.S. pressure to open politically and economically. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American, has been reaching out to Cuban officials, including members of the Castro family.
In one of his videos. Sandro Castro pretends to receive a call from Rubio, who he then hangs up on. Rubio has said Cuba needs new leadership, and that could include Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel stepping down. Despite Fidel and Raul Castro's support for Diaz-Canel over many years, Sandro Castro says he is no fan.
Do you think President Diaz-Canel is doing a good job?
CASTRO: I would not say he is doing a good job. For me, he is not doing a good job. There are a lot of things he should have been doing for a while now and today that is hurting our lives.
OPPMANN: Cuba's leaders reject attempts to blame them for the crisis. And Sandro Castro says officials have questioned him about his often surreal and critical postings. As well, Cuban exiles regularly attack him online, he says.
Why do you think there are people, though, that hate the Castro family so much?
CASTRO: It’s complicated. Many Cubans would have liked to have been capitalist. I think the majority of Cubans want to be capitalist, not communist. That has created differences, a hatred which is not productive.
OPPMANN: Sandro Castro says he supports Trump's calls to open the economy, if not his threats against the island. At the end of his video, he takes the U.S. leader on a tour of Havana. Hope from at least one member of the Castro family that a historic deal with the U.S., an opening on the island are possible. Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana.
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