{"id":10628,"date":"2017-10-16T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/10\/16\/sonic-attack-on-us-diplomats-cubans-dont-believe-it\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:30:49","slug":"sonic-attack-on-us-diplomats-cubans-dont-believe-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2017\/10\/16\/sonic-attack-on-us-diplomats-cubans-dont-believe-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic attack on US diplomats? Cubans don&#8217;t believe it"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=c8a6da86-7338-4602-a6c5-a26b4d6831ee\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-c8a6da86-7338-4602-a6c5-a26b4d6831ee.jpg\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">It sounds sort of like a mass of crickets. But not quite. AP shares recordings of what some U.S. officials heard in Cuba &#8216;health attacks.&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HAVANA (AP) \u2014 A bizarre string of attacks on diplomats in Havana has sent U.S. relations with Cuba to their lowest point in decades, with the Trump administration virtually closing its embassy here and expelling Cuban officials from Washington. The U.S. is talking ever tougher, with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly saying that Cuba \u201ccould stop the attacks on our diplomats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this city where the U.S. says at least 22 strange episodes have occurred over the last year, few people believe a word of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt isn\u2019t the first or the last excuse that they invent to discredit Cuba and its leaders,\u201d 36-year-old lawyer Alexander Tamame said as he walked through Havana\u2019s Vedado neighborhood this week. \u201cI don\u2019t think anything really happened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American officials say embassy officials began hearing strange, high-pitched shrieking noises in their homes last year, with many soon after reporting severe symptoms including deafness, vision problems and difficulty concentrating. Despite unprecedented Cuban cooperation with a U.S. investigation, the Trump administration says President Raul Castro\u2019s government has failed to guarantee that Americans will be safe in Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Cuba, skepticism is virtually universal, among supporters of the Communist government like Tamame and among its detractors; among fans of the United States and among those wary of the giant to the north. Talk to anyone, anywhere in the country about the U.S. allegations that Cuba bears responsibility for attacks with a strange sonic weapon that have affected at least 22 embassy officials or spouses \u2014 some very seriously \u2014 and you\u2019ll likely be met with laughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t believe any part of it,\u201d said Luis Felipe Gonzalez, a 59-year-old taxi driver, as he waited for customers nearby. \u201cIt\u2019s absurd propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cuban skepticism reflects an increasingly assertive stance by President Raul\u2019s Castro\u2019s government, which has gone in three months from issuing statements of deep concern about the attacks to questioning whether they even occurred. While the Cuban media diet has diversified with the spread of internet access around the country over the last three years, most Cubans still get their news from state-controlled media that function fundamentally as outlets for such statements from the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations said after the attacks became public in August that \u201cCuba has addressed the matter with the utmost seriousness and has acted swiftly and professionally to clear up the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It ended its statement saying the government \u201creiterates its willingness to cooperate to clear up the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez requested an urgent meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, leading State Department officials to surmise that he might be coming with information uncovered by Cuba about what had occurred, or other new developments to share with the U.S., an official familiar with the meeting said. Instead, Rodriguez once again said Cuba hadn\u2019t committed the attacks and don\u2019t know who did. Rodriguez also appealed to Tillerson not to overreact by closing down the embassy, as Tillerson had said was under consideration, according to the U.S. official, who wasn\u2019t authorized to discuss the meeting publicly and requested anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time the U.S. pulled staff from Havana last month and expelled Cubans a few days later, Rodriguez was striking a different tone, calling the attacks \u201calleged incidents\u201d and blaming the United States for impeding the investigation by failing to share information with Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other Cuban officials went even further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEven Star Wars didn\u2019t contain such fantasies,\u201d Raul Castro\u2019s daughter Mariela, a legislator and head of Cuba\u2019s sexual education agency, said in a Sept. 26 interview with Al Mayadeen, a Beirut-based pan-Arab news agency close to Hezbollah and the Syrian government. The American government, she said, \u201cwill use any lie, any absurdity, to justify their political vandalism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same tone was struck on Tuesday by Miguel Diaz-Canel, the first vice president widely expected to succeed Raul Castro when he steps down as president in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA few spokespeople and media outlets have lent themselves to divulging bizarre nonsense without the slightest evidence, with the perverse intention of discrediting Cuba\u2019s impeccable behavior,\u201d Diaz-Canel said in a speech in the central city of Santa Clara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government rhetoric is echoing in public opinion about one of the worst diplomatic crises between the U.S. and Cuba since Cuba shot down two planes operated by Cuban-American exiles in 1996, provoking stiff new sanctions from the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt sounds like Star Wars,\u201d said Dayan Rosete, a 23-year-old language student, as he stood chatting with a friend in front of the Habana Libre hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cubans\u2019 mocking skepticism has been infused with rising anger since the U.S., along with the decision to reduce more than half its diplomatic staff in Havana, stopped issuing visas there and warned Americans against traveling to Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The halt has dashed tens of thousands of Cubans\u2019 hopes of visiting family abroad in the coming months, and dealt a grave blow to a burgeoning private tourism industry that had been flush with American cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re the victims here,\u201d Gonzalez, the taxi driver, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this city where the U.S. says at least 22 strange episodes have occurred over the last year, few people believe a word of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":15,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[106,31,15,33],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1786,1942],"class_list":["post-10628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-brief","category-home","category-management","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"5UIEZ3LDIBGHDLYWK6ZXUIG5TI","arc_canonical_url":"\/management\/2017\/10\/16\/sonic-attack-on-us-diplomats-cubans-dont-believe-it\/","remove_feature_photo":true,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"remove-feature-image","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sonic attack on US diplomats? 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