Genocide in Slow Motion: Ambassador Johana Tablada in an Interview about the Blockade against Cuba

Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast

In this episode of El Taller (The Workshop), the interview program from the Soberanía podcast, Kurt Hackbarth speaks with Johana Tablada de la Torre, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico, about the unprecedented offensive of the Trump administration against the island.

Tablada describes how the energy siege, the reinstatement of Cuba on 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 dropped from 85 to 65 percent, and the country faces daily blackouts with no fuel to transport goods or produce food.

The Cuban diplomat denounces that these measures are not economic sanctions but a criminal design of genocide, and explains how the Helms-Burton Act and Washington’s pressure penalize third countries — including Mexico — for maintaining commercial relations with Cuba. She also reveals internal divisions within the anti-Cuba lobby in Miami, which promised the collapse of the revolution in 15 days and has failed to mobilize even its own community.

Despite the suffocation, Tablada emphasizes that the Cuban people have not surrendered. The revolution has resisted through innovation in photovoltaic energy, the refining of Cuban oil, and international solidarity, especially from Mexico, which continues to send humanitarian aid and maintain a firm position in defense of Cuban sovereignty. Her final message is clear: Americans must 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.

Note: The English soundtrack is not perfect but you can understand the process of the operation of the US against Cuba and others. The same threat exists against Venezuela and the current favorite for this treatment after Cuba, is Nicaragua. This is the return of original brutal colonialism.