El Taller: Genocide in Slow Motion with Cuban Diplomat Johana Tablada
In this episode of El Taller, the interview program from the Soberanía podcast, Kurt Hackbarth talks with Johana Tablada de la Torre, deputy head of mission at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico, about the Trump administration’s unprecedented offensive against the island.
Tablada describes how the energy blockade, Cuba’s return to the list of state sponsors of terrorism, and extraterritorial sanctions have caused a dramatic deterioration in daily life: infant mortality has doubled, childhood cancer survival has fallen from 85 to 65 percent, and the country faces daily blackouts without fuel to transport people or produce food.
The Cuban diplomat denounces these measures not as economic sanctions but as a criminal design for genocide, and explains how the Helms-Burton Act and pressure from Washington penalize third countries, including Mexico, for maintaining trade relations with Cuba. She also reveals the internal divisions within the anti-Cuban lobby in Miami, which promised the revolution would collapse in 15 days and has failed to mobilize even its own community.
Despite the stranglehold, Tablada stresses that the Cuban people have not given up. The revolution has resisted through innovation in solar energy, the refining of Cuban oil, and international solidarity, especially from Mexico, which continues to send humanitarian aid and maintain a firm defense of Cuban sovereignty. Her final message is clear: Americans should investigate for themselves, because Cuba is not a threat. It is a neighbor that has always offered help, even to the United States in times of crisis.
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