• What Happened: Sandro Castro, 33-year-old grandson of Fidel Castro, told CNN over a cold beer that the majority of Cubans want capitalism, not communism, and said he would welcome a deal with President Trump to open Cuba's economy.
  • Why It Matters: Cuba's grid has collapsed three times in four months, Maduro's Venezuela cut off oil after his US capture, and Trump has said he intends to "take Cuba." The Castro dynasty's own grandson is now publicly calling for the system his grandfather built to be scrapped.
  • Bottom Line: When the founding dictator's own family is drinking beer and rooting for capitalism on CNN, the revolution is over in everything but name.

Fidel Castro spent his life building a communist revolution in Cuba. His grandson spent Monday night drinking Cristal beer and telling CNN it was time to scrap the whole thing.

Sandro Castro, 33, is the most famous of Fidel's grandsons, a nightclub owner and Instagram influencer with 150,000 followers who has spent years trolling the communist government his own family built. In an exclusive late-night interview with CNN conducted during one of the island's frequent blackouts, Castro sat in designer sunglasses in his Havana apartment, powered by his personal EcoFlow battery generator while most of the island sat in the dark, and said what millions of Cubans are apparently thinking but cannot say out loud.

"There are many people in Cuba that think in a capitalistic way. There are many people here who want to do capitalism with sovereignty," Castro said. "I think the majority of Cubans want to be capitalist, not communist."

He was equally direct about wanting a deal with President Trump. In his latest satirical Instagram video, a fake Trump shows up at Castro's door trying to buy Cuba. "We can do business because you are a showman and businessman like me," the fake Trump tells the real Castro. The video ends with a Trump tower rising over the Havana skyline. Castro told CNN he would welcome the real version.

He also unloaded on Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, saying he is "not doing a good job" and that "there are so many things he should have done a long time ago, so many things that weren't done properly, and those things are now coming back to haunt us."

When asked whether his grandfather Fidel's revolution had improved life on the island, Castro ducked the question entirely. "I was born after 1959, so I can't say," he said, praising both Fidel and his great-uncle Raul in the same breath while refusing to defend what they built.

The contrast between Castro's life and the average Cuban's was on full display throughout the interview. His manager handed him ice-cold beers as he spoke. His apartment had running electricity. The average Cuban salary is below $20 per month. Cuba's electrical grid has collapsed three times in the last four months. Cubans are searching dumpsters for food. Some have taken to the streets in protest.

Pro-government bloggers in Cuba have called for Castro's arrest over his mocking social media posts. His own family has asked him to take some videos down. He has not stopped posting.

Castro also wondered aloud during the CNN interview how he might get a visa to visit friends in Miami, and apologized for his English. "It's like Maduro's," he said with a grin, referencing the Venezuelan leader who was seized by the United States in January.

Fidel Castro built a revolution. His grandson is on CNN drinking beer and asking for Trump to come make a deal. If that is not the final verdict on seventy years of Cuban communism, nothing is.