Joaquín Alonso Vázquez, Minister of Economy and Planning of Cuba, posted on Facebook a statement filled with political fury in response to Delcy Rodríguez's speech before the UN General Assembly: «Traitors only have one name: Treason». Hours later, the post vanished from his profile.
The post was documented by the profile of the official Cuban journalist Pedro Jorge Velázquez, known as El Necio, before Alonso Vázquez deleted or restricted it.
A later screenshot showed the message "This content is not available at this time," even though the post had already garnered seven reactions and seven shares.
The gesture of erasing what has been written reveals the tension experienced by the Cuban government: the discontent is real, but expressing it publicly carries its risks.
The trigger was Rodríguez's performance in New York during the week of the General Assembly.
On September 22, she met with Donald Trump at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in what she described as a "historic" meeting, and the following day she delivered a speech before the UN General Assembly where she announced elections "on equal terms," spoke of "full democracy," and thanked Trump for his support, without mentioning Nicolás Maduro or the Bolivarian Revolution even once.
Alonso Vázquez specifically reacted to a post by the user identified on Facebook as Vicente Leal, who summarized the events as follows: «Delcy Rodríguez witnessed at the UN how Trump called Maduro a 'criminal' and boasted about his abduction. She did not get up. She did not say anything... The one who yesterday shouted 'imperialism' today gives oil to the Empire. This is not diplomacy. It is the inventory of a surrender.»
The discomfort was not exclusive to the minister. Henry Omar Pérez, a journalist from the state Cuban News Agency, wrote that "the Bolivarian Revolution has died" and that "the traitors" took their dignity with them.
El Necio, for its part, emphasized that "there was not a single mention of Nicolás Maduro in Delcy Rodríguez's speech" and described the situation as a complete disregard for "the main political demand of Venezuela" before the UN.
Behind that indignation lies a specific economic wound. Venezuela used to send Cuba between 25,000 and 70,000 barrels a day of subsidized crude oil before the supply was interrupted between December 2025 and January 2026, following Maduro's capture by U.S. forces.
Since then, the energy crisis on the island has worsened, leading to blackouts lasting more than 24 hours in numerous localities across the country and a daily generation deficit exceeding 2,000 MW.
Rodríguez's shift towards Washington—which includes the announcement of elections, public gratitude towards Trump, and silence regarding Maduro—is seen by some sectors of the Cuban regime as a betrayal that solidifies Havana's energy and political isolation.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed that the conversation between Trump and Rodríguez addressed debt restructuring, economic stabilization, and the transition to free elections in Venezuela, an agenda that leaves no room for the interests of Havana.
The episode of the minister insulting an ally and then retracting his words accurately illustrates the situation of the Cuban regime: trapped between anger over the Venezuelan abandonment and the impossibility of publicly breaking with the only government that could, in any scenario, resume the flow of oil to the island.
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