; (13) serious government corruption; lack of investigation of and accountability for gender-based violence, including femicide; and (14) trafficking in persons, including forced labor; and outlawing of independent trade unions; Whereas 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report published by the Department of State lists Cuba as a Tier 3 country, the lowest possible rating, stating that— (1) there was a government policy or pattern to profit from labor export programs with strong indications of forced labor, particularly in the foreign medical missions’ program ; and (2) the regime continued to deploy Cuban workers to foreign countries using deceptive and coercive tactics and failed to address trafficking crimes despite an increasing number of allegations from credible NGOs, former participants, and foreign governments of Cuban officials’ involvement in abuses ; Whereas, in January 2019, Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro stated that the Cuban dictatorship has failed in access to rights and equity, its productive system has failed, its financial management has failed, its management of the economy has failed and the only way to melt away its social deficiencies is to push its people into exile; it is a system that is incapable of giving dignified and honest work to its people, that is unable to open its youth to enterprise, unable to generate a competitive productive system and unable to achieve solutions for the simplest financial issues ; Whereas the Asociación Sindical Independiente de Cuba (commonly known as Independent Trade Union Association of Cuba or ASIC ) has filed complaints with the International Labour Organization condemning violations of fundamental labor rights, such as freedom of assembly, and repression of labor activist Ivan Hernandez Carrillo, and, in response, the International Labour Organization provided recommendations on March 24, 2021, to address the violations, which Hernandez Carrillo continues to endure in the wake of the July 11, 2021, protests