Nicaragua and Venezuela join the Island in the worst position in the document, which analyzes the situation in the Western Hemisphere
14ymedio, Washington, June 25, 2024 — The US Government finds that Cuba does not meet the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking and does not make significant efforts to do so due to the export of doctors to other countries. The Island is, like last year, among the countries with the highest incidence of this problem, along with Venezuela and Nicaragua.
This is clear from the 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report) published this Monday by the US State Department, which divides countries according to their degrees in terms of human trafficking and identifies those mentioned at the most serious level.
Washington calls on Cuba to ensure that “government-sponsored labor export programs meet international labor standards, specifically that participants receive fair wages, which are paid in full to bank accounts that the workers themselves can control.”
Washington calls on Cuba to ensure that “government-sponsored labor export programs meet international labor standards
In Nicaragua, the report states, the Government of Daniel Ortega “continued to minimize the seriousness of the problem” and did not identify any trafficki