The Cuban diplomat Johana Tablada de la Torre has recently taken her defense of the regime and its key propaganda themes to an increasingly personal and exclusionary level in her latest publications.
In the social media of the official, certain political disagreements no longer appear as opinions that can coexist, but rather as moral incompatibilities capable of crossing friendships and even family relations.
The most explicit example came on July 31, when Tablada issued a sort of ultimatum to her own contacts via Facebook.
I respectfully request that all "friends" who support and/or justify the inhumane policies and measures of economic and energy genocide against Cuba cancel our friendship, he wrote.
The diplomat immediately clarified that she did not consider that position an ordinary political disagreement.
"Supporting that method to achieve political ends is an incompatibility of positions that I cannot overcome. It is not just a simple difference of opinion or preference and choice of ideologies or politics," he stated."
For Tablada, "it is a matter of humanity, or a lack of it."
He also questioned Cubans who attribute responsibilities to the regime itself for the crisis and concluded his post by expressing the desire to share his space with people who are "honest, with better human qualities, respectful, courageous, and empathetic."
The "revolutionary intransigence" taken to the personal level
The stance evokes a concept that the Cuban regime has historically championed as a political virtue: "revolutionary intransigence."
The term remains fully present in official propaganda. In March 2026, Granma, the official publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, presented the Baraguá Protest as an "eternal symbol of the revolutionary intransigence that guides Cuba," associating it with the refusal to yield or negotiate principles deemed essential.
In the publications of Tablada de la Torre, that logic seems to extend beyond the confrontation with the United States.
The diplomat reflects the official thesis that primarily attributes the deterioration of living conditions in Cuba to Washington, while minimizing the regime's responsibilities to "errors" and "shortcomings." Furthermore, it turns the disagreement with that interpretation into an issue of humanity, dignity, and moral quality.
The result is an increasingly rigid divide between those who accept its theses and those who question them.
Four days later, the crash affected her mother
On August 4th, that dynamic took on a familial dimension.
Carolina de la Torre, mother of Tablada, published a reflection that shared responsibilities between two powers.
No power, in order to maintain itself, has the right to let die those whom it must serve and save, he wrote. And he added: No power, in order to overthrow another, has the right to suffocate those it claims to want to save.
The message questioned both those who govern Cuba and those who seek to provoke change through external pressure.
Just over three hours later, Johana Tablada published "For Cubans and Non-Cubans," a text that rejected precisely that equivalence of responsibilities.
"Equating the responsibility of the rapist or abuser with the mistakes of the victim is reprehensible," he stated.
The diplomat also spoke of "cowardice" and "burying dignity," and argued that taking that position means "ultimately supporting the crime being committed against Cuba and my people".
Tablada de la Torre did not explicitly mention her mother, so it cannot be established as a fact that she wrote the message in response to her. However, the temporal proximity and the correspondence between both arguments created a clear counterpoint between mother and daughter in the publications.
A defense of the regime with increasingly less room for dissent
The tone is not entirely new for Tablada. Over the past few months, she has made numerous statements defending the official positions of Havana and has used strong disparagement against those she identifies as adversaries.
She has called Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, a coward and liar, has referred to «thugs» in her statements, and has described the U.S. official as «sick with ambition, complex, and hate». She also claimed that millions of Cubans would be willing to give their lives in defense of the system.
But their most recent publications introduce a different element: that logic of confrontation is no longer directed solely against Washington, opponents, or exiles.
On July 31, he expressly reached out to his friends. Four days later, a political stance very similar to the one Tablada de la Torre had just declared incompatible with his personal relationships was publicly defended by his own mother.
The contrast is particularly significant because Carolina de la Torre has publicly criticized the regime for years, just like Abel Tablada, the brother of the diplomat, who has questioned official journalism, institutions, and the economic priorities of the Cuban government.
The "revolutionary intransigence" that Castroism has exalted for decades as a virtue takes on a much more personal dimension in the social media of one of its diplomatic representatives.
In the recent speech by Tablada de la Torre, staunchly defending the so-called "revolution" seems to leave less and less room for nuance, even when disagreement arises among friends or within his own family.
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