Since the US mass media has probably given at least 10 times more coverage to the mysterious symptoms alleged to have affected about 20 US diplomats, compared to three days of a Category Five hurricane killing 10 people and tearing up much of Cuba, this is a story we cannot ignore.
As before, there are simply no facts to point to any cause or any common basis for these reported symptoms, with speculation about a sonic attack that no one has ever found or defined.
In any “mysterious” situation like this, I start by looking at who has something to gain and who has something to lose. And then who has the capacity to perpetrate such an action.
As you can see from this article, Marco Rubio and other conservative Republicans are using this as a basis to demand an end to diplomatic relations with Cuba. Clearly, CIA trained people, whether on active duty or former agents, have both the motive and technological capacity to pull off such surreptitious attacks. I don’t for a minute suspect that “rogue elements” in the Cuban military or anywhere else would do this to oppose having diplomatic relations with the US. Fidel Castro always favored such relations, but not on the base of compromising Cuba’s sovereignty, which Cuba has consistently refused to do.
Personally, I think Raul Castro is quite right to invite a US investigation, though at the obvious risk of having US intelligence agents snooping around, which could certainly compromise the revolution’s security to some extent.
The risk of Trump — or John Bolton type people getting his ear to demand — canceling diplomatic relations or expelling all Cuban diplomats is too great not to act forthrightly.
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