{"id":304610,"date":"2024-06-27T16:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T20:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=304610"},"modified":"2024-06-27T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T20:50:32","slug":"u-s-once-again-includes-cuba-on-its-human-trafficking-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/u-s-once-again-includes-cuba-on-its-human-trafficking-blacklist\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. once again includes Cuba on its human trafficking blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States government once again included Cuba on its blacklist regarding <\/span>human trafficking<\/b><\/a>, an issue on which Washington and Havana openly have opposing interpretations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year the island was placed in the most serious level of the annual report on the subject, published this Monday by the State Department, which includes countries that, in the opinion of U.S. authorities, do not meet the minimum standards for the elimination of this scourge and do not make significant efforts to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

At that level, the U.S. authorities also placed Venezuela and Nicaragua, two of Cuba\u2019s strongest political allies in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

As cited by the EFE news agency, the report asks Havana to ensure that \u201cgovernment-sponsored labor export programs meet international labor standards, specifically that participants receive fair wages that are paid in full to bank accounts that workers can control.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

With this, Washington once again targets the island\u2019s medical missions and, in general, professional cooperation with other countries in other sectors, which brings income to the Caribbean country and has been questioned by NGOs, opposition activists, and the U.S. government itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cuban authorities, for their part, claim to have \u201czero tolerance\u201d for human trafficking and defend the \u201chumanistic character\u201d of their medical program, mainly in countries of the so-called Third World, although also in other more developed ones such as Italy and Qatar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, they consider that the accusations against Cuba respond to a political motivation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Along these lines, after the U.S. report was released this Monday, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez pointed out that Washington\u2019s \u201cunilateral and arbitrary reports only seek to maintain and justify a criminal policy of economic asphyxiation against the Cuban people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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#Cuba<\/a> mantiene una pol\u00edtica de tolerancia cero frente la trata de personas.<\/p>\n

Continua inclusi\u00f3n de nuestro pa\u00eds en informes unilaterales y arbitrarios de gobierno de EEUU solo pretenden mantener y justificar pol\u00edtica criminal de asfixia econ\u00f3mica contra el pueblo cubano. pic.twitter.com\/2b99ezfICi<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bruno Rodr\u00edguez P (@BrunoRguezP) June 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n