The Cuban regime acknowledged its inability to meet the population's basic needs, such as health, food, energy, or transportation. However, despite being increasingly discredited, it wielded the argument of the "genocidal blockade" by the United States.
An interview granted to Cuban television by the Deputy General 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 the public services of the Cuban State.
"These measures, so inhuman, so cruel, are putting us in a practically unprecedented situation of being unable to meet the basic needs of our population. In all aspects, 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 regretted that Washington did not go further and had not removed the country from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, "which matters more because it is the one that imposes coercive measures against the Cuban population."
"They didn't do it because they didn't want to, 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 and that are associated with the US policy of suffocating Cuba's economy and holding Cuba responsible for the impact of its measures," Tablada de la Torre stated.
According to the high official of MINREX, the ultimate goal of the United States is "to take measures that prevent income from entering our population, threaten the livelihood of the population for the purpose of political destabilization and regime change, so that people lack things, feel desperate, and then blame the Cuban government".
Of course, according to the diplomat's perspective, this strategy by the United States is supported by "a well-funded systematic communication operation in the world of mainstream media and digital platforms to hold the victim country accountable for the impact of [its measures]."
It is not the first time that Tablada de la Torre's statements deviate from the orthodox discourse of the regime's propaganda and its denunciations of the "blockade," inadvertently putting the focus on the regime's responsibility for the unprecedented socio-economic crisis facing the Cuban nation.
In mid-April, the diplomat described the current migration crisis as "the largest in the history of Cuba," but 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 inhuman measures on our population constitutes the main incentive that explains the unprecedented increase in the current migratory flow, which is disproportionate and which is, essentially, the largest migratory wave in the history of Cuba," he stated.
When it's not "the blockade and additional measures and maximum pressure," it's the "extraordinary and artificial incentives 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 and dresses [up] its survival plan and its "political project" to perpetuate itself in power with various justifications.
“The 200,000 people that the United States thought were going to overthrow the government... emigrated," Tablada de la Torre told Russia Today channel last October, acknowledging with evident satisfaction the regime's masterful move to maintain the status quo, temporarily relieving pressure from a pot where Cubans are still being cooked.”
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