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Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, affirmed this Tuesday that the slander against his country in the 2022 Human Rights report of the United States Government is unacceptable.
"He tries in vain to disguise his interventionist and interventionist behavior," denounced the foreign minister.
In a post on Twitter, Rodríguez Parrilla argued that with a shameful record of raping and abusing its own citizens, the United States should refrain from stigmatizing others.
The 2022 United Nations report on human rights indicates that the United States continues to fail to meet its commitments in this area, especially in the area of racial justice, and that this is reflected in the country's inability to end systemic racism linked to to the legacies of slavery.
In addition, the US continues to have the highest criminal incarceration rates in the world, with nearly two million people incarcerated in state and federal jails and prisons on any given day.
Half of US police departments refuse to report use of force, necessitating non-governmental data collection and analysis.
In 2022 alone, the US police killed more than 400 people.
On a per capita basis, it kills three times as many black people as white people.
Large numbers of children continue to be incarcerated each year, with more than 240,000 documented detention cases in 2019, according to a report by the Sentencing Project.
A joint report by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union documents how America's child welfare systems too often respond to circumstances of poverty with punishment, accusing families of neglect and separating children from their parents. parents instead of providing support to help keep their families together.
The slanders against #Cuba by the US government in its 2022 Human Rights report are unacceptable
With a shameful record of raping and abusing its own citizens, it should refrain from stigmatizing others
He tries in vain to disguise his interventionist and interventionist behavior
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) March 21, 2023
(With information from Prensa Latina)