OBAMA POLICIES ON LATIN AMERICA A Reuters investigation discovers that leading up to the release of the annual U.S. report on human trafficking "human rights experts at the U.S. State Department concluded that trafficking conditions hadn’t improved in Malaysia and Cuba. ... [But] the State Department’s senior political staff saw it differently — and they prevailed." Senior American diplomats "over ruled" and "pressured [staff] into inflating assessments of 14 strategically important countries in this year’s Trafficking in Persons report." As a result, Cuba and Mexico "wound up with better grades than the State Department’s human-rights experts wanted to give them." (See the
Obama Policies On Latin America (August 4, 2015)
Obama Policies On Latin America (August 4…
Obama Policies On Latin America (August 4, 2015)
OBAMA POLICIES ON LATIN AMERICA A Reuters investigation discovers that leading up to the release of the annual U.S. report on human trafficking "human rights experts at the U.S. State Department concluded that trafficking conditions hadn’t improved in Malaysia and Cuba. ... [But] the State Department’s senior political staff saw it differently — and they prevailed." Senior American diplomats "over ruled" and "pressured [staff] into inflating assessments of 14 strategically important countries in this year’s Trafficking in Persons report." As a result, Cuba and Mexico "wound up with better grades than the State Department’s human-rights experts wanted to give them." (See the