CUBAN experts participating in a televised Roundtable program denounced that the United States is trying to charge Cuba with alleged person trafficking while intensifying its policy of aggression against the island.

The panelists informed that the White House is now including Cuba among those countries accused of trafficking in women and children linked to prostitution - a slander by Washington - in a election-year move to escalate its aggressive policy towards the island and influence public opinion as a pretext for possible armed aggression.

The report, presented on Monday by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, charges Cuba with promoting person trafficking, being a sexual tourism destination and additionally claims that the state obliges teenagers and children to undertake forced labor.

The document does not include information on what is occurring in the United States, the panelists pointed out. Cuba is on several lists invented by the current U.S. government, including one referring to democracy and religious freedom and another regarding the war on drugs, they noted.

The report is nothing more than a justification for maintaining the economic blockade imposed on Cuba for more than 40 years, which has been condemned by the international community.

Likewise, it is a tool for preparing a file on Cuba as a hostile state and in that way separating Cuba from the concert of nations, they explained. The United States has increased financial resources directed at fostering the destruction of the Revolution, and Bush has threatened Congress with vetoing any bill that attempts to ease hostilities against Cuba, the panelists affirmed. (PL

source: Granma

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