Nick Shirley says he was almost taken hostage in Cuba

WASHINGTON (TNND)— YouTuber Nick Shirley mentioned Monday night that he was almost taken hostage whereas going on a trip to Cuba.

He mentioned he was going there to doc the humanitarian disaster in the nation.

“I was almost taken hostage in Cuba…I went to Cuba to document the humanitarian crisis and show life under 60+ years of communism and now amid the US blockade,” he wrote in a publish on the social media platform, X.

He mentioned as soon as he landed in Cuba, most of his cameras have been seized and he had intelligence brokers following him.

“Once I landed, they seized all my cameras except my iPhone and had intelligence agents following me all day until my security noticed their spies tailing us to the hotel where they waited all night for us to come down,” Shirley mentioned.

Last month, the Senate rejected a transfer to forestall President Donald Trump from utilizing the army in Cuba. President Donald Trump mentioned throughout a Turning Point USA rally that he would begin a “new dawn” for Cuba.

“Under communism there is no free speech, and those who show the reality or speak up are impressed,” Shirley’s publish concluded. “I went without a planned Cuban government guide nearly got me and my security taken hostage or imprisoned. The situation in Cuba is much worse than anyone knows.”

Last 12 months, Shirley went viral after he went to Minnesota and filmed a number of daycare facilities that appeared vacant. He alleged that hundreds of thousands of taxpayer {dollars} have been funding the facilities, which means there was fraud.