By Ramon Capote on June 27, 2024
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Once again the U.S. Government has kept Cuba in the worst category in its annual State Department report on human trafficking.
Lying, morally reprehensible for many, has managed to successfully survive the educational advances of human beings. Great thinkers such as Aristotle considered that “lying makes man odious before divinity and despicable before his fellow men”.
But well, moving away from philosophy, there is nothing like popular wisdom to warn about its possible consequences, especially when it becomes the “common sense” of those who govern a nation, because, as the saying goes, “you can catch a liar faster than a lame man”.
Such is the case with our neighboring government, that one to the north of the archipelago, which, like the naked king in a children’s story, displays its falsehoods about Cuba, without realizing that its shame is in the air for the world to see; so arrogant is its arrogance.
The current U.S. administration has arbitrarily insisted on keeping Cuba in the worst category (level 3) in its recently published annual State Department report on human trafficking.
The actions of the Washington authorities, marked by political motivations, deserved a response, from the account in X, of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez:
“The empire has once again listed Cuba in its manipulative report on human trafficking, an outrageous maneuver in the open war against Cuban medical collaboration. Enough cynicism, Secretary Blinken. You are well aware of our zero-tolerance policy for this criminal practice.”
To justify the action, the report referred to the year 2023 and uses contradictory arguments, based on the defamation of the work of Cuban medical collaboration in more than a hundred countries.
Cuba’s cooperation with other peoples in the field of health is so humane that they have to attack it. It bothers them that, in the midst of the lordship of perversity and dishonor with which they pretend to dominate the world, the unsubmissive island brings light to the darkness and health to those who suffer.
But it is not fortuitous to include Cuba in spurious lists, to consider the island in the worst category in its report on human trafficking allows the White House to justify the blockade and the endless saga of coercive measures aimed at starving its people.
It would seem that the world is upside down: those who promote human trafficking, encouraging illegal departures, those who hinder the normal migratory flow between the two nations, are the ones who judge and punish.
Those who do not allow – to cite just one example – our baseball players to benefit from an agreement that prevents them from falling into the arms of human traffickers to reach Major League Baseball in the US, are the same ones who seek to condemn Cuba that maintains a zero tolerance policy against human trafficking.
Source: Granma translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English