Fidel Castro's daughter claims Cuban regime change should have happened in the 1980s

Alina Fernández Revuelta, the daughter of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, claimed in an interview published Wednesday that Cuba should have had a regime change in the 1980s.

Fernández, daughter of Castro and Havana socialite Natalia Revuelta, claimed that a regime change in her home country is long overdue and the regime should have ended when her father died if not earlier.

“For me, it’s been time for a regime change since the late ‘80s,” Fernández told The Epoch Times. “At the time Fidel Castro died, we were all thinking [his regime] had come to an end, because it was a very personalized and paternalist ... narcissistic government. ... But it survived.”

Fernández, who fled Havana for Miami when she was 37-years-old, in 1993, said she opposed her father's rule and that she learned from a young age about the realities of communism. She was raised by her mother and step-father.

“I became a dissident, I mean, publicly ... in the late ‘80s. So I was scared. I was afraid for my daughter, that something might happen to her,” Fernández said. “I was on the dissident side, so it’s kind of a double burden on her. She was a teenager."

The comments come as the United States pushes a maximum pressure campaign on Cuba by severely limiting oil shipments to the Latin American country and imposing strict travel restrictions on U.S. tourism to the island.

The Trump administration's actions have led to nationwide blackouts in Cuba, which has seen its economy grind to a halt amid a de facto blockade imposed by the U.S.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.