The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, through the Foreign Ministry, forcefully rejected the annual report on Trafficking in Persons published by the United States Department of State, considering it built “on unfounded grounds.”
Foreign Minister Yván Gil released a statement through social networks in which he expressed, on behalf of the Venezuelan State, that the rejection is due to the fact that the US report “is instrumentalizing this sensitive issue for political purposes to attack the Bolivarian Government.”
The statement explains that the sanctions and coercive measures against the country “are intended to cause maximum damage to the Venezuelan population,” which sometimes “constitutes an incentive for the migration of people vulnerable to the scourge of trafficking.”
The text adds that “Venezuela is concerned about the fate of compatriots in the United States, who, being victims of institutionalized discrimination, do not receive the due care and protection” against the crime of human trafficking.
He criticizes that the US government “avoids its responsibility and also tries to disqualify the work of the Bolivarian Government, which fully complies with its commitments in this matter.”
The statement ends by ignoring the power by which the United States “intends to set itself up as a watchdog of the policies implemented by other countries,” and urges the government in Washington to frame its actions within diplomacy and respect the sovereignty and determination of other nations.
