Posted on 06/09/2008 5:24:23 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
ON June 4, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice presented her annual report on human trafficking for 2008, in which, for the sixth consecutive year, the United States government included Cuba among the countries it accuses of not making significant efforts to confront the alleged trafficking of women and children for the purpose of sexual exploitation, and described our country as a sexual tourism destination, among other serious and unfounded accusations.
For the first time, the imperial power also decided to include in this report several recommendations to the Cuban government as to how to confront the phenomenon.
At the same time, the report threatened sanctions against those countries accused of failing to meet the secretary of state’s requirements on the issue, denying them U.S. government aid, something which is of little relevance to Cuba, having been subjected for over 50 years to these and other measures, as part of the policy of blockade implemented so rigorously and cruelly in an attempt to defeat the Cuban people.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs categorically rejects the contents of this new State Department report which denies and distorts Cuban realities in an effort to justify the U.S. government’s criminal blockade of, aggression and hostility against Cuba.
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* Yawn *
Big talk from a regime that could be deposed with a snap of our collective fingers.
Ping
blah blah blah criminal blockade blah blah blah yankee imperialists blah blah blah victory of socialism blah blah blah.
SSDD, Friends.
By the way, why so grumpy about the blockade? Other nations trade with you. Also, shouldn’t the glorious workers’ paradise be self-sufficient and not need any Yankee Imperialist goods which would assuradly corrupt the workers with capitalist decadence? Of course, the lazy bums who pass for writers in commieland may have never actually thought of the illogic of their position regarding the blockade.
In 1959 Cuba was the wealthiest Latin American country. Today it is the poorest, except for the basket case of Haiti.
Fidel’s got him quite a record of accomplishment.
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