Selena Lambert Ortega, a 24-year-old from Santiago de Cuba, created a Facebook poll on Jan. 12, asking people who should be Cuba’s next president. Within hours, the post went viral.
But, state security agents soon told her to take the post down.
A woman wearing a headscarf with the US flag walks down a street in Havana, Cuba, on March 19, 2026. Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images
