In an interview with Cubainformacion, to which Prensa Latina had access today, Tablada stressed that the objective of this attack on Cuban medical cooperation is to isolate Cuba internationally and erode its well-earned prestige in this domain and cut off a source of income that is ‘the sustenance of medical services inside Cuba’.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry official expressed her opinion on the latest measures against Cuba, announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to sanction authorities of third countries that sign medical agreements with Cuba, saying that it is a ‘delirious whim’.

It is a delirious whim of Rubio’s, a project that is going to fail because nobody believes it, not even he himself, Tablada added.

When going into the matter in the accusation of alleged human trafficking, she indicated that the doctors are not deceived, since they sign a contract and know its conditions; ‘they are not forced or coerced; nor do they work without a salary’.

On the contrary, she said, they have ‘a double remuneration: their full Cuban salary and a payment in hard currency in the country where they are working’.

She also denied that the cooperating teams ‘are confined’ or ‘do not move freely’.

Referring in general terms to the US blockade against Cuba for more than six decades, she assured that ‘this war policy has failed in terms of its political objective, but it has succeeded in harming Cuban families’.

She considered that the US economic warfare measures served to torture the Cuban population, ‘in a kind of laboratory experiment to stifle and cut off all their sources of income’.

Wondering why Trump does not take steps towards the lifting of the blockade, she said that ‘the issue of Cuba has been subcontracted to sectors in South Florida, which have made a lucrative business out of the policy of aggression against the Cuban Revolution and the economic siege against our country’.

The hypothetical end of the siege to the Island, she admitted, would be beneficial for both countries, in areas such as investments, culture or access to Cuban medicines such as Heberprot-P, which prevents the amputation of diabetic foot, a disease that affects thousands of people in the US.

Tablada mentioned that an October 2024 poll showed that at least 59 percent of the US population supports the normalization of US-Cuba relations.