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Maldita.esPolitics & government

Rocío Monasterio ha dicho que la llegada de Fidel Castro hizo que su abuelo perdió la industria azucarera en Cuba y sus esclavos se quedaron sin empleo fijo

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim concerns an image circulating on social media that attributes to Rocío Monasterio a statement about Fidel Castro’s arrival in Cuba, her grandfather losing his sugar industry, and “sus esclavos” losing fixed employment. Maldita.es traced the quotation to No Brain No Future, a page it describes as humorous, rather than to a verified statement by Monasterio. The review says it searched online for interviews and appearances by Monasterio and found no record of her saying the phrase. It also says the outlet contacted Vox’s press team but had received no response by the time the article was published. The review’s account therefore rests on the quotation’s traceable origin and its search for a record of Monasterio saying it—not on a response from Vox. The review reports that No Brain No Future presented the quotation on its social media profiles and warned that its statements were fabricated attributions to public figures, intended as humor and social and political criticism. That provenance supports the conclusion that the circulating image was not evidence that Monasterio had made the statement.