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Interview with Johana Tablada, Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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In July 2025, Helen Yaffe and Nina Blodau sat down with Johana Tablada, then Deputy Director General for the United States at Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs but subsequently appointed Ambassador and Deputy Head of Mission in Mexico. Tablada describes the key features of US-Cuba relations, past and present, clarifies how the US Blockade functions, explains its economic and human toll, and lists the impacts of Cuba’s inclusion on the US State Sponsors of Terrorism List. Click here https://youtu.be/UB-jD7xExr8?si=eWjkzXBHLNnLhP68

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