The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, strongly rejected this Tuesday that the United States (USA) keeps the Caribbean island on the list of countries that do not collaborate in the elimination of human trafficking, an act that classified as cynical.
“The empire has once again listed Cuba in its manipulative Human Trafficking Report. Outrageous maneuver of open war against Cuban medical collaboration. Enough of the cynicism, Secretary Blinken. You know well our policy of Zero Tolerance to this criminal practice,” the Cuban president stressed in his X account.
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On the other hand, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) declared in a statement after this accusation against the Caribbean country that “through this type of exercise, which has political motivations, the Washington authorities take the illegitimate right to judge to others”.
“To justify the qualification, the report, referring to the year 2023, uses contradictory and not credible arguments with which it continues to distort and defame the work of Cuban medical collaboration for decades, in more than a hundred countries,” underlines the Foreign Ministry. .
Added to this, the Ministry assures that Cuba’s presence on that list seeks to torpedo cooperation, “including future initiatives that could benefit the people of both nations in terms of Health.”
The Minrex highlights that the fact that the US includes the country in the report triggers consequences such as “the freezing of non-humanitarian and non-commercial aid, or the refusal of the United States to receive loans from multilateral institutions.”
“The Cuban authorities have reiterated, over the years, that this qualification has no relation to Cuba’s true performance in the active fight against human trafficking,” concludes the Minrex.
The US Government announced the day before, through an annual report, that Cuba is included in level three, considered the worst category.
The document was presented by the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, accompanied by Cindy Dyer, special ambassador to monitor and combat human trafficking and emphasizes that Cuba is a country that does not meet the minimum standards of compliance with the anti-trafficking policy. .
Cuba “is not making significant efforts to do so,” therefore “it remained at Level Three,” the report highlights.
Author: teleSUR – ahf – JGN
Source: @DiazCanelB – @CubaMINREX – Granma
