Cuban President Condemns Manipulator US Human Trafficking Report

The (US) empire has again included Cuba in its manipulator report on Trafficking in Persons; and indignant maneuver of open war against Cuban medical collaboration, wrote Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on his X account on Tuesday.

The Cuban head of state and First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party called the attention of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and recalled that Cuba maintains zero tolerance against any form of human trafficking.

Stop the cynicism Secretary Blinken; you know well our policy of zero tolerance against that criminal practice, Diaz-Canel wrote. https://shorturl.at/g226K

Also on X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez reiterated Cuba’s stance with respect to the issue and its zero-tolerance policy. “Our country continues to be included in unilateral and arbitrary US reports; they only intend to keep up and justify the criminal policy of economic asphyxiation against the Cuban people,” Rodriguez wrote. https://shorturl.at/L6KYG

The US Department of State issued its annual report on Trafficking in Persons, which fingered at the Cuban government by reading that “The Government of Cuba does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; therefore Cuba remained on Tier 3.” https://shorturl.at/O6zLi

In order to justify the designation of Cuba, the report uses contradictory and hardly credible argument which keep distorting and defaming the role of Cuban me medical collaboration for decades in more than one hundred countries. “….there was a government policy or pattern to profit from forced labor in Cuba’s labor export program, which included foreign medical missions,” the State Department report reads.

Cuba has kept its zero-tolerance policy and in 2022, the island updated its National Plan of Action for the Prevention and Fighting against Trafficking in Persons and the Protection of its Victims (2022-2024). This is a crucial tool for coordinated action between the state and civil society organizations to address this serious crime, still pending for approval by the Cuban Council of State.