The Cuban government embraces a CIA report made public last week and asks the Joe Biden Administration to restore the normal functioning of the United States embassy in Havana, as well as diplomatic relations. The normalization process, made public in 2014, was interrupted during Donald Trump’s term with the incident of diplomats affected by neurological symptoms that was called “Havana syndrome”.
The report, which was made public last week, determined that of the approximately 1,000 reported cases of those affected by the Havana syndrome, only two dozen were still being investigated because no explanation had been found for the ailments referred to, while the rest had been ruled out. find cause, in most cases, attributable to stress and environmental conditions.
However, it was also said that most of the cases that still remain unexplained came from the embassies in Havana and Vienna.
However, it was also said that most of the cases that still remain unexplained came from the embassies in Havana and Vienna, in addition to a few others from different destinations. There are diplomats affected by the Havana syndrome not only on the island but also in offices in Russia, China, Austria, India, Vietnam and Germany, among others.
Carlos Fernández de Cossío Domínguez, deputy minister of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the US network CNN that the report should provide sufficient evidence for the US government to resume normalization
“The logical step of the United States government with this evidence, with what they now know, would be to put aside the excuse that was used at the time about the attacks and normalize the functioning and operation of its embassy in Havana and also of our embassy in Washington,” said the senior Cuban official.
The CIA report is preliminary and the director of the agency himself pointed out that the investigation is continuing. William J. Burns asked for respect for the agency’s workers, who work with “rigor and good work” and also for those affected, whose symptoms, he insisted, are real.
“While we have reached some significant interim findings, we are not done yet. We will continue our mission to investigate these incidents and provide world-class care to those who need it,” he said.
The CIA represents the epitome of the worst of the American enemy for the Cuban regime, but this time they have not hesitated to seize their most recent report to disassociate themselves from an issue that has not yet been clarified
The CIA represents the epitome of the worst of the American enemy for the Cuban regime, but on this occasion they have not hesitated to seize their most recent report to disassociate themselves from an issue that has not yet been clarified.
The Havana syndrome, whose first cases were reported in 2016, has been attributed to different causes, including microwaves or directed weapons that would be issued by an enemy country. The US has targeted Russia on several occasions, as one of its agents, who was in the Soviet Union, claims to have seen similar tools capable of producing effects such as those reported by diplomats.
However, in almost five years of investigations, it has never been possible to demonstrate the involvement of any country or identify the possible source capable of causing such damage, and many of the cases are even ruled out as psychosomatic.
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