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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Havana Syndrome, the US’s Monumental Hoax</h1>By Alejandra Garcia on January 23, 2022 from Havana</div><div class="gmail-content"><div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div id="gmail-wrapper2">
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<p>Last week, the United States decided to recognize for the first time
in five years that the phenomenon baptized as “Havana Syndrome” is
nothing more than a big farce.<span id="gmail-more-19483"></span> On Thursday,
the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) admitted that its
allegations against Cuba for the so-called “health incidents” against
its diplomats in Havana back in 2016 were not caused by “a deliberate
attack.”</p>
<p>A report released by the CIA on the events confirms what the
scientific community in Cuba and the rest of the world has said to
exhaustion, “There is no evidence that an attack of such magnitude was
planned by a government.”</p>
<p>“The new study confirms Cuba’s position, strongly held since the
first alleged cases came to light,” Johana Tablada, deputy
director-general for the United States at the Cuban Foreign Affairs
Ministry, told local journalists.</p>
<p>According to the CIA security report, the symptoms – nausea,
drowsiness, fatigue, headaches, and hearing and vision problems – cannot
be attributed to a common cause and even less to such a far-fetched
hypothesis as a “sonic attack.”</p>
<p>That hypothesis has been advocated by the Donald Trump administration
and his successor, the current president, Joe Biden and has been used
as the primary justification for keeping Cuba on their list of countries
supporting terrorism, slapping on over 240 sanctions, cutting the
staffs of the embassies to skeleton crews while maintaining in full
force the over 60 year blockade on the island nation.</p>
<p>Experts overwhelmingly agree that for an ultrasound to be capable of
destroying molecular tissue, it would need to involve huge weapons. They
explained that such devices would have to be placed close enough to the
target to avoid being blocked by walls but hidden as much as possible
to cause such damage invisibly.</p>
<p>In January 2019, biologists with expertise in tropical insects
suggested that the most plausible explanation would be that the noise
perceived by the diplomats was the mating song of one particularly noisy
species, the short-legged guinea fowl crickets.</p>
<p>Now, the U.S. intelligence agency acknowledged that most cases could
be categorized as “environmental causes, undiagnosed medical conditions,
or stress.” The information dismisses the “attacks” being perpetrated
by Russia or other enemy foreign powers, as U.S. politicians have tried
to make them seem during the last five years.</p>
<p>Consequences of such lies</p>
<p>Cuba denounced to exhaustion the political manipulation behind this
scandal due to the lack of scientific foundations and the proliferation
of increasingly less credible excuses, such as the use of microwaves and
supersonic weapons, as if we were dealing with a James Bond movie.</p>
<p>The United States relied on the disease to apply a battalion of
sanctions against Cuba that are still in force today. The “syndrome,”
which seems more a phenomenon of collective hysteria than a disease per
se, complicated the process of visa applications by Cubans wishing to
travel to the country.</p>
<p>Washington decided to transfer those procedures to embassies in other
nations, a situation that is still maintained along with other measures
that were born to “weaken relations between the two countries,” Johana
Tablada explained.</p>
<p>“Although incidents have been reported in several countries, the
United States has only taken Draconian measures against Cuba, which has
had a negative impact on the Cuban family,” she complained.</p>
<p>Why is the U.S. discourse changing now?</p>
<p>There was never a scientific consensus on the issue. The United
States was never able to prove that this symptom exists but that didn’t
stop them from punishing Cuba on a failed assumption. Today, five years
later, the great farce has become untenable.</p>
<p>The new report does not mean that the neighboring country will cease
its hostilities against the island, nor that they will stop
investigating the alleged events recorded in their diplomatic community.</p>
<p>In fact, the CIA assured that, although it is not a “deliberate
event,” they will continue to analyze specific cases. They maintain the
rhetorical hook to continue encouraging the anti-Cuban far-right in
Florida, key voters for the new administration.</p>
<p>Just last week, US Foreign Affairs Minister Antony Blinken assured
that the US was continuing to “get to the bottom” of the issue to find
out who was behind the attacks. He said so after the country documented
new cases in Geneva Switzerland, and Paris France.</p>
<p>But this sudden decision to acknowledge that Cuba, Russia, and other
“enemies” are not behind the events is the first stone they lift in the
Hollywood movie story they no longer have a way to sustain.</p>
<p>The report is also an effort to contain the cascade of denunciations
and new cases that have proliferated in various parts of the world since
the US Congress approved in September 2021 a resolution to grant
economic aid to diplomatic officials afflicted by the alleged syndrome.</p>
<p>Why hasn’t the White House dismissed this fantasy altogether? Because
they do not want to admit that the “phenomenon” has become a boomerang
for them, bringing them more losses than gains. They want to make the
whole story go away in a fade, without recognizing the great ridicule.</p>
<p>They neither want to admit that it has been a farce, because they
know that, historically, whatever story they make up against Cuba, the
world will believe it without asking questions, even if it includes
supersonic weapons, murderous microwaves, deafening sounds in the middle
of the night, or malicious short-legged crickets.</p>
<p>Source: Resumen Latinoamericano – English</p>
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