14ymedio, Madrid, 11 March 2024 — Of all the measures of the “criminal blockade” systematically denounced by the Cuban regime, the one that most annoys Cuba’s deputy director for the United States, Johana Tablada, is the “disinformation campaign about Cuba’s medical cooperation,” which she considers ignoble. The official has made a list of all the “pretexts” and “falsehoods” that Washington alleges in order to harm the Government of Havana, among which is the recruitment of Cuban mercenaries to fight with Russia in Ukraine.
“It is absolutely false and has been denied, just like the accusation of the Chinese bases that The Wall Street Journal publishes every week with total impunity and without attachment to any evidence,” she says bluntly in an interview published this Saturday by Prensa Latina. In Tablada’s opinion, Washington’s objective continues to be “to apply that crooked logic that if the blockade is tightened it will finally provoke a situation of revolt, a destabilization of our population, in order to blame the Government of Cuba for the impact of their measures.”
In Tablada’s opinion, Washington’s goal continues to be “to apply that crooked logic that if the blockade is tightened it will finally provoke a situation of revolt, a destabilization of our population, in order to blame the Government of Cuba”
The official eludes any self-criticism and emphasizes that the decisions of the US Government cause “a very severe, very painful impact on the standard of living of the Cuban family that today sees itself affected by the basic basket [of the rationing system], transport prices and the possibility of eating the food they need. Their idea is that this is because Cuba is a failed state; that is the narrative that is repeated,” she insists.
Last October, Tablada offered an interview to The Hill media in which she emphasized that the removal of Cuba from the list of states that sponsor terrorism is one of her priorities. “As we know, it is not just another slander; it’s a measure that goes directly to the jugular of the Cuban economy,” she says, but the meetings have not borne fruit for the moment, and Joe Biden’s Administration has maintained the Island’s status. The official’s words to Prensa Latina make clear her disappointment with the Democrats and even her indifference to a change of government in the neighboring country in November.
“The policy of Joe Biden’s government has essentially followed the policy of the Donald Trump government,” she says, “even with the electoral promise that those inhumane measures that affected the Cuban family were going to be lifted.” The regime visibly supported the Democratic Party during the 2020 elections, whose headliner (Biden-Harris) had claimed that they would alleviate some m
