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Bush, Rubio blast Obama for going easy on Cuba for human trafficking: They’re right

Sep 29, 2015 | NOTICIAS

America and Cuba are racing to normalize relations. We get that.
 
But giving Cuba a break on forced labor and human sex trafficking shouldn’t be a part of the game plan.
 
Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are both blasting the Obama Administration for allegedly rewriting an annual State Department to make some nasty countries appear a lot less nasty, including Malaysia, China and Cuba — all in the name of political expediency.
 
Listen to Rubio, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, as reported by el Nuevo Herald: “The president and his administration have set a dangerous precedent that could lead countries to believe that they can negotiate their way out of being named and shamed for their human trafficking abuses, instead of actually adopting reforms and tackling the problem.”
 
Bush and Rubio are righteously peeved at reporting interference by State Department brass that apparently resulted in the U.S. giving Cuba brownie points for thinking about change and talking about change, without actually making change.
 

 
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