{"id":201129,"date":"2019-06-21T09:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=201129"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:23:34","slug":"u-s-adds-cuba-to-its-human-trafficking-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/u-s-adds-cuba-to-its-human-trafficking-blacklist\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. adds Cuba to its human trafficking blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Thursday the U.S. government added Cuba to its “blacklist” of countries that don\u2019t do enough to combat human trafficking, a measure that can lead to the imposition of sanctions. It also included a U.S. ally like Saudi Arabia and kept nations considered hostile to Washington such as Venezuela, Russia, Iran and North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in the presentation of his annual report on human trafficking relating to 2018, said that they should call it what it is, modern slavery, and added that human trafficking is a global crisis and requires a global response.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cuba had been on an watch list for three consecutive years and, this year, the State Department decided to punish the island for not “fully complying with the minimum standards\u201d for the elimination of human trafficking and not making significant efforts for this.<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. specifically pointed to complaints by some NGOs about the “coercion” and allegedly poor working conditions of <\/span>Cuban doctors<\/span><\/a> sent by Havana to other countries that have a need for personnel or with epidemic crises, mainly in Africa and Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cuban authorities have defended the “solidarity character” of their collaborators and have accused the U.S. of seeking “to reestablish the brain drain program for Cuban doctors.”<\/span><\/p>\n

D\u00edaz-Canel acusa a EE.UU. de retomar \u201crobo de cerebros\u201d con m\u00e9dicos cubanos<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n