Cuba’s Deputy Health Minister Tania Margarita Cruz, a high-ranking member of the country’s Communist party, is complaining that she’s being discriminated against by the US State Department, which has denied her a visa to enter the United States.
Cruz wants to attend a month-long event in Washington sponsored by the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), a subsidiary of the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO), but the State Department has said no. A spokesman for State said, “refusing to issue visas to some of the world’s most repressive government officials is in the national security interests of the United States.” In addition, he explained that the absence of Ms. Cruz will not prevent Cuba from participating in the conference, since plenty of Cuban officials with visas are already in Washington.
In addition, the State Department released the 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report, which found that the government of Cuba forces its own citizens into slave labor and is guilty of “state-sponsored human trafficking.” According to Breitbart News:
The State Department noted that there were approximately 26,000 Cuban slave workers in more than 55 countries as of the beginning of 2025 — all of whom had between 75 and 95 percent of their wages confiscated by the Castro regime.
Deputy Health Minister Cruz countered that her country has often been praised by the United Nations. Exactly.
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