Dina Stars is a Cuban YouTuber. By June 2021 she had over 30 thousand subscriptions in

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and over 50 thousand followers in

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. In 2021 Dina denounced that she had been subject to threats, blackmail and cyber-harassment that resulted in the loss of her job in two different companies, regretting that there were not laws in Cuba that protected her. In June 2021, Stars publicly criticized the prohibition of

Miguel Díaz-Canel Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (; born 20 April 1960) is a Cuban politician and engineer. He has served as the 8th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba since 2021 and as the 17th president o ...

's administration of the deposit of dollars in banks in the country. During the

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, in a live interview with the Spanish television program ''Todo es mentira'', Dina was detained by Cuban security officers. She was accused of "promoting protests" in Cuba; she was released the following day.

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