"Cuba Had SPIES Tracking Us" - Nick Shirley INFILTRATES The Communist Surveillance State
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Young journalist Nick Shirley flies into communist Cuba against everyone’s advice, has his gear seized, is shadowed by regime “spies,” and captures a grim look at decaying streets, mass poverty, and depressed locals under socialism.
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| 0:00.0 | Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back. |
| 0:04.4 | Mom! |
| 0:05.0 | Up the stairs for something. |
| 0:07.8 | Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for. |
| 0:12.0 | Mom, what's for dinner? |
| 0:13.6 | Chop, sizzle, done. |
| 0:17.1 | Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier. |
| 0:23.4 | So it's phones down, forks up. |
| 0:25.5 | Hello Fresh. |
| 0:26.5 | Bring back dinner time. |
| 0:30.1 | You just got back from Cuba. |
| 0:32.7 | Out of all the places you can go to, why Cuba? |
| 0:35.3 | I've been wanting to go to Cuba for the past year or so. |
| 0:38.1 | Okay. |
| 0:38.4 | Because I've been tracking, like, the rise of communism, socialism here inside the United States. And so I've been wanting to make a video for a long time going to a communist country to show people what life is like inside a communist country. And I've been monitoring, like, the situation with Rubio, what he's been saying, with what Trump's been saying, I said, well, this is probably my last few weeks to do it before they take over. And so I just hopped on the flight, bought my ticket and coordinated security. Everyone was telling me, Nick, do not go. My parents were like, do not go. Security was like, Nick, do not go. Everyone was telling me, do not go. |
| 1:29.1 | I was like, well, I'm going to go because, like, he deserved to see what's happening. And so I went and, yeah, almost got taken hostage. You almost got taken hostage while you're there. Yeah. So walk me through who you went through. Was it just security? Did you take your brother? Did family go with you? Yeah, so it was just me and two of my security guards. One, one is actually a Cuban American, and the other one also speaks Spanish. So I had two guys who spoke Spanish. I also speak fluent Spanish. However, when you go to different countries, each Spanish is a little bit different, like, they have different different slang and whatnot and so these guys I went with they had done |
| 1:48.7 | operations like anti-human trafficking operations in Haiti in Mexico and so they're |
| 1:54.5 | very well versed in these hostile situations and when we arrived to the airport, we had done everything correct. I had my |
| 2:04.0 | visa and it was for journalistic activities. And I get there and rise I get there. They take all my, |
| 2:11.2 | I only brought two GoPro and some DGI microphones. They take all of that. And my meta glasses as well. However, luckily, I had a very |
| 2:21.5 | small microphone that I had at the very bottom of my backpack. And the guy's finger just like scuffed it. |
| 2:27.9 | And he let me, and he didn't notice that I had that microphone. So I had my iPhone. And these people |
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