The Cuban regime acknowledged its inability to meet the basic needs of the population, including health care, food, energy, and transportation. However, despite becoming increasingly discredited, it wielded the argument of the "genocidal blockade" by the United States.
An interview granted to Cuban Television by the deputy director of the United States Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX), Johana Tablada de la Torre, highlighted the concern of the Havana regime regarding the progressive and undeniable deterioration of public services in the Cuban state.
"Such inhumane and cruel measures are putting us in an unprecedented situation where we are unable to meet the basic needs of our population. In every aspect, in transportation, in food, in salaries,” acknowledged the official."
Analyzing the recent decision by the State Department to remove Cuba from the list of countries that do not cooperate in the fight against terrorism, the diplomat expressed regret that Washington did not take a further step and remove the country from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, “which matters more because it imposes coercive measures against the Cuban population.”
"They have not done it because they do not want to, but because they want to continue using the list of state sponsors of terrorism as a justification for the unilateral coercive measures that derive from it, which are associated with the United States' policy of suffocating Cuba's economy and holding Cuba responsible for the impact of its measures," affirmed Tablada de la Torre.
According to the senior official of MINREX, the ultimate goal of the United States is to "take measures that prevent income from reaching our population, threatening the livelihood of the population for the purposes of political destabilization and regime change, so that people lack essential goods, feel desperate, and then blame the Cuban government."
Of course, according to the diplomat's perspective, that strategy of the United States has the support of "a well-funded systematic communication operation in the realm of the mainstream media and in the world of digital platforms to hold the victim country accountable for the impact of [its measures]."
This is not the first time Tablada de la Torre's statements deviate from the orthodox discourse of the regime's propaganda and its denunciations of the "blockade," unintentionally highlighting the regime's responsibility for the unprecedented socioeconomic crisis facing the Cuban nation.
In mid-April, the diplomat described the current migration crisis as "the largest in Cuba's history." However, she blamed the United States government for the massive exodus that has driven hundreds of thousands of Cubans to leave the Island.
"The impact of these extreme and inhumane measures on our population is the main incentive that explains the unprecedented increase in the current migratory flow, which is disproportionate and, in essence, the largest migration wave in the history of Cuba," he stated.
When it’s not “the blockade and additional maximum pressure measures,” it's the “extraordinary and artificial stimuli for Cuban emigration.” The fact is that the regime does not take responsibility for the stampede of hundreds of thousands of Cubans in recent years, dressing its survival plan and its “political project” of perpetuating itself in power with various justifications.
“The 200,000 that the United States thought would leave to topple the government... have emigrated”, said Tablada de la Torre to the channel Russia Today last October, acknowledging with evident satisfaction the regime's masterstroke to maintain the statu quo, momentarily relieving pressure from a pot in which Cubans continue to simmer.
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