RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The United States on Thursday kept Nicaragua, Venezuela, China, and Cuba on its "blacklist" of countries that do not do enough to combat human trafficking, and warned of problems in countries such as Israel or Saudi Arabia, according to the new State Department report.
"This crime is an affront to human rights and human dignity," stressed Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, in presenting the annual report.
Blinken also asserted that human trafficking has a "disproportionate burden" on those "oppressed by other injustices" in developing countries and warned that the pandemic has "exacerbated" problems among the most . . .
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