The young Lisandra Rodríguez, better known as the ‘Cuban Amy Winehouse’ due to her great physical resemblance to the late British singer, was unfairly fired from her job, after her image went viral and was published in multiple independent media.
Through social networks, the young woman, who worked as a waitress at the Escabeche bar, located on Obispo Street, in Old Havana, announced that the managers of the place had taken the dissemination of her story in the mass media badly, so they asked him not to return to the premises again.
The dismissal comes after her image similar to the interpreter of Back to Black caught the attention of several independent media on the Island, which published about her, mentioning the place where she worked.
According to Rodríguez, the discontent of the bar owners arose because they mentioned the establishment, being that they are “subversive” media, so for fear of reprisals from the government they preferred to dispense with their services, even when the notes did not have political overtones.
“I’m very sorry for this, but I didn’t make the decision. They fired me from work for being in the media. I want to clarify that I was supporting serving the tables, but I did not comply with the documents for that,” Lisandra explained on Facebook.
“It still seems a little bad to me that young people want to improve themselves and are so limited by things like this. “This beautiful country is full of young people with nothing to do,” he added, pointing out that his dismissal was not the initiative of the administrator, but rather that “the bosses higher up are the problem.”
The young woman also shared a live broadcast through Facebook, from another bar in Havana, where she explained, quite casually, what happened.
In her broadcast, Lisandra expressed that she was quite excited that journalist Mario J. Pentón was watching her live, and even took the opportunity to ask him about her parole, stating that she had been waiting for more than a year for the response to her procedure.
“They put me and my son on parole since February 18 of last year and I don’t know where my parole is, maybe he’s traveling through Nicaragua,” he joked.
“When one door closes, another opens,” the young woman concluded, assuring that she would go to relieve the stress of what happened by getting a new tattoo.
On social networks, the reaction of Cubans was one of great indignation and surprise, with several users criticizing the extreme censorship, which affects those who appear in independent media, even if they do not even give political opinions.
They also criticized the lack of vision of the bar’s owners, who instead of seeking to attract customers by promoting that they have the “double of Amy Winehouse”, they chose to get rid of the young woman and leave her without a livelihood.
“Instead of giving the contract to someone who could even attract more clients, they fired her! Damn the communists”; “She will have plenty of job offers and in private bars”; “It’s not even about thinking differently, now it’s just about appearing in the media about those who think differently. “This country is improving every day,” were some of the comments.
Lisandra, the young Cuban who made headlines for her enormous resemblance to Amy Winehouse, was expelled from the state bar where she worked after appearing in several independent media… this is the state of political apartheid that exists in #Cubaone more reason to end this. pic.twitter.com/DQ0qYyduiF
— Mag Jorge Castro🇨🇺 (@mjorgec1994) May 7, 2024
#Cuban #Amy #Winehouse #unfairly #fired
