Byron York tells us about the NYT's latest effort to sway voters in the next election in New goal for New York Times: 'Reframe' American history, and target Trump, too. The reframing puts slavery front and center and will attempt to make "race the central theme of Times coverage for the remaining two years of President Trump's term in office."
It's all partisan politics, but those of in flyover country might wish that they could tackle the real problem of modern day slavery with the same fervor they attack Trump. The State Department periodically publishes a report on slavery, and you can download the most recent one at https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019-Trafficking-in-Persons-Report.pdf. Or see the overview at 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report.
A screen shot about the Western Hemisphere should appear on the right. Note that Cuba and Venezuela are the only two countries in this hemisphere that are Tier 3 countries. (Tier 3 is the worst in terms of slavery.)
We last talked about this in 2012 in a blog post titled Slave states - present day. Looks like Cuba was in Tier 3 then, too. But Venezuela wasn't. Hugo Chavez and his successor must have thought Friedrich Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" was a how-to manual.
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2:57 PM 8/19/2019
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