The State of Nicaragua, administered by Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, continues on the “black list” of countries that do not carry out the necessary actions to combat the international crime of human trafficking, through which tens of thousands of human beings are exposed to danger or lose their lives at the hands of traffickers worldwide.
The 2023 black list, which is updated every year by the US State Department, is made up of 24 countries and registers Nicaragua as one of the countries that does not do enough to counteract this crime, along with other nations such as Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, all political partners of the dictator Ortega.
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This year, states such as Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea and Papua New Guinea debut as members of that negative list. Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam were deleted from the relationship.
The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, when presenting the report on Thursday, June 15, stressed that his country “is committed to the fight against human trafficking because it represents an attack on human rights and freedoms ».
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In the case of Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela, the US government warns that these three countries do not even meet “minimum standards” to consider that they are fighting against human trafficking.
However, the US does acknowledge in its report that the Cuban regime at least underwent “some steps” to “address trafficking”, reforming the Penal Code, however, the US administration considers that the “medical missions”, through which Cuba sends thousands of doctors to work abroad, continue to be a form of “forced labor.”
