14ymedio, Havana, 26 August 2024 — The US Congress assumes that the Havana regime uses illegal immigration “as a weapon to saturate the US border, benefit from international smuggling, export dissent, infiltrate spies and strengthen a black market economy.”
The statement is part of Resolution 1358, whose text was presented on July 11 by Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, who demanded that the Cuban Government “account” for the “serious human rights violations” it systematically commits.
With the text in hand, the US House of Representatives called on Joe Biden’s government to “use all diplomatic tools to persuade foreign governments and international organizations to join forces and coordinate activities to bring freedom and democracy to Cuba.”
The members of Congress point to the Island as a level 3 country, on a scale that defines “total non-compliance with minimum standards against human trafficking,” in addition to being a sponsor of this practice. Among these violations, they emphasize, is the sending of Cuban doctors to Mexico and other countries.
The Regime “pays the doctors between 10% and 25% of what the host country pays Cuba for their service and denies them their fundamental rights,” the document emphasizes. Against this background, it requested analyzing the issue within the framework of the Trade Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC), an instrument that will be reviewed next year.
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