MIAMI — Singer Camila Cabello raised awareness about the crisis in Cuba and asked her fans to support the Catholic Church’s social services work on the communist island.
On Friday, Cabello released a statement on X and included the link to Friends of Caritas Cuba, a Cambridge-based nonprofit organization that supports Caritas Cuba.
“Many people are starving, looking for food in trash heaps, and the only way to survive is having relatives ship you boxes of medicine because not even the hospitals have medicine,” Cabello wrote. “The power is gone for so long that food spoils and water becomes scarce.”
Cabello, whose mother was born in Cuba, wrote that she still has family on the island that she sends medicine, food, and clothes to.
“When people have peacefully protested, they have disappeared or been put behind bars, some as young as 13 years old. This is a reality where a post online costs you your life,” Cabello wrote. “The Cuban people have lived without dignity and without hope for too long.”
Cabello wrote that she is also worried about immigration.
“It’s no wonder so many Cubans have thrown themselves into shark-infested waters, making boats out of tires and sticks and risking their lives for freedom,” Cabello wrote. “They are now in the midst of a profound humanitarian crisis.”
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There is so much going on here at home and so much I can say about the heartbreaking things the immigrant community is experiencing here in the US. I also feel a personal responsibility to speak about what’s happening in Cuba, I still have family on the island that we speak to… pic.twitter.com/hTQcdrgQpw
— camila (@Camila_Cabello) February 20, 2026
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